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Jomalaldi · 02/11/2019 19:13

We are just watching pointless and Anne diamond is on. My daughter asked who she was and I explained that she was a tv presenter, who was famous back in the day. I then remembered that she was the one who Lost her baby to SIDS and gave us the advice to put babies on their backs.DD currently cuddling her new son and is almost not believing me that babies were swaddled, put on their tummies and made sure they were warm. I know that there are still babies that die on their backs, and no matter what you do this awful thing still happens. I’m surprised this woman isn’t revered for what she did. Does anyone know if there are other reasons she hasn’t been officially recognized for what she did?

HebeMumsnet · 04/11/2019 10:16

Morning, everyone. Thanks to the reporter who drew our attention to this thread. We agree, Anne Diamond definitely deserves more recognition for the thousands of babies' lives her campaign must have saved over the years.

We unfortunately don't have a hotline to whoever puts honours lists together (though we'd quite like one, if you're reading, Your Maj! Wink). But we thought a good start might be if we Tweet about this thread and see if we can get some more interest going in the idea.

We'll tweet a link shortly. Thanks again!

HebeMumsnet · 04/11/2019 10:49

Haha @TheQueef! No, please do carry on with the daily Tweets! The more the better!

RowanMumsnet · 06/11/2019 11:42

@BertrandRussell

I can only assume that she must have turned down an honour.

Well - this news just in: Anne replied to our Tweet about this and said:

"I’ve not turned down an honour - never been offered. Not even a thankyou letter from no10. Despite it being the SINGLE MOST SUCESSFUL HEALTH CAMPAIGN EVER! (Govt own stats) if they ever offered me an honour now, what should I do? Tell them where to stick it? Or accept and bow?"

Which seems like a good question...

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