The police have reported that two teenagers from Southampton have been arrested on suspicion of murder after the death of a six-week-old baby boy.
Police officers and paramedics were called to the scene at Defender Road at 5.05am on Sunday after reports that a child was in need of medical attention.
The baby boy was taken to Southampton General Hospital, where he sadly passed away.
The teens, an 18-year-old woman and a 16-year-old boy, have both been arrested in connection with the death and remain in custody for questioning, a spokesman for Hampshire Police confirmed.
Our beautiful baby girl jenny spent her first Xmas with her family. Her mum, dad, big sister, brother, her twin little sister and her nana. Jenny spent most of the day being very nosey. We opened gifts cooked dinner and had family time together. We had a lovely day.
At night we all got ready for bed. Jenny spent most of the night unsettled. So she slept next to me she loved to cuddle in. The next morning jenny was still unsettled so we put this down to her being tired.
I put jenny for a nap. When she woke at 1 I went to get her bottle. Dad cuddled her in and noticed she felt hot. So I grabbed the thermometer and checked. She had a temp or 38.9. I rang nhs 24 straight away. During the phone call I repeatedly checked Jenny’s temperature The numbers varied. Other than the temperature jenny was off her feeds that day.
I got through to nhs 24 ran through all there questions. They said as jenny was running a temperature and was only 11 weeks. Also because she was premature they would like to see her at 5.50 that evening.
We striped jenny down to her vest to keep her cool. And cuddled her in she was not to fussy about her bottle we just kept trying her with.
Jenny had a nap with her twin sister that afternoon. As they did all the time. At 4.30 we were eating some dinner before jennys appointment when she woke. Our friend was here at this point to take us to jennys appointment. So he cuddled her in and talked to her. He noticed that she had a rash appearing before him on jennys face.
I went over and had a look and could also see the rash. I went to change her bum and it was everywhere. The rate of this rash was so fast. It was spreading in front of me. Jenny had been in her bed since 1. And there had not been one single spot until now. I did the glass test right away some of the rash would disappear and some not.
So we went to hospital right away. Within 10 mins we had seen a doctor then were transferred to the children’s unit.
At the children’s unit the fitted jenny with a cannula took bloods and gases. They told us looked like a bug could be a serious bug or not so serious one. They Give her antibiotics right away and some fluids. She seemed to perk up.
I sat cuddled into her telling her everything was going be ok. The doctors had giving her medication so she would be better soon. We were put on a ward by ourselves.
They came to check jenny 10 mins later and said that she was not responding the way they would like her to. From that point everything seemed to happen so fast. They said it looked like meningitis.
Jenny was soon surrounded by a team of 16 doctors, nurses, consultants people from the neonatal team.
They hooked her to all sorts of machines. Put jenny in a coma give her pain medication. They gave her x-rays to check her organs. They took over her breathing. Put her on a heated bed as they struggled to keep her warm as se could not maintain a stable temperature. That team of people worked incredibly hard to save jenny.
We were waiting on a specialist team coming from Edinburgh to take jenny there. We were told that it looked like jenny would not make it and to try prepare for that.
At 2.00am jenny started to crash they took turns performing cpr. They told us if some miracle they could save her. Jenny would not be the same baby girl we had. After 20 mins of cpr. The doctors advised that they could do no more for jenny. The kindest thing we could do is turn the machine of and let jenny die in our arms.
We had minster come and bless jenny. Then 2.40 the machine was turned of. We took jenny to our private room and i held her in my arms until she died. At 2.50am the doctors came to check jenny and announced jenny had now passed away.
Sadly after only 11 weeks and 3 days our princess had died from meningitis b and septicemia.
Meningitis and septicemia kills. It took our beautiful baby jenny away from us so quickly.
Please keep an eye out for symptoms you may get some or all of them. Jenny only had the temperature and was of feeds until the rash appeared. Her are the symptoms. Knowing these could save a life.
August 2016 my beautiful little baby boy went for a routine MRI, this was to check this was to check everything was ok due to him being born early at 31 weeks and his first 3 months were touch and go.
We had expected it to be an in and out appointmen…IT WASN’T!
Before he had come around from the sedation the doctors came into the bay, pulled around the ‘sound proof curtain’ and delivered the news that my tiny baby boy had a huge build up of fluid on his brain.
A blow we were not prepared for! How do you cope with being told that the tiny baby laying in front of you has something seriously wrong with him, a baby wh no chance to live.
We had 5 months of calm our baby boy was a perfect addition to our little family and his big sisters doted on him and then it’s like everything around you shatters.
We had to prepare ourselves to watch our baby face something we knew nothing about, we had to tell our young daughters that their much-loved baby brother had a poorly head and the doctors had to make him all better, they were too young to understand but I could see they were worried.
The next day he was taken to Addenbrooks where he would spend nearly a month!
We were presented with the choice between a shunt or ETV (endosopic third ventriculostomy) a hard decision and we followed what we thought would be the best long-term solution along side the advice from his neurosurgeon.
After 3 and a half hours we got the call that our tiny baby boy was out of brain surgery.
The ETV had failed he now had a bleed on the brain, seeing him laying there with a tube coming out of his head and blood filling up the pot that it was attached was absolutely heart breaking, if I could have swapped places with him I would have.
Our daughters were amazing throughout all of this, we didn’t want to scare them and let them see their little brother with a tube coming out of his head and them not being able to pick him up but they got tearful not having him at home with them, they had moments of being sad but they kept us ‘distracted’ and helped us to keep going forward.
Our little fighter had to have an external drain to relieve the pressure and to allow the blood to clear, brain surgery 2 was 9 days into this to replace the tube and reduce the risk of infection.
It took 3 weeks for the blood to clear and then it was time for his 3rd surgery to place his shunt, he was home the next evening!!!
The shunt drains the fluid from his brain to his abdomen.
To look at you would never know he had it, it just means we have to be extra cautious with his head and any type of hit to the head could end up with him back in hospital for more surgery.
When he is poorly or sick it puts us all on edge as not only is it horrible seeing your baby ill but sickness is also a symptom of a malfunction.
As of August 2016 our boy has hydrocephalus, a chiari malfunction (the route cause of hydrocephalus)and epilepsy.. these join a list of problems he’s had to face and continues to.
Our little fighter now.
But he is our little superhero! He’s battled a lot and has come such a long way.
He is always happy and such a character, your typical boy who loves cars, dinosaurs, paw patrol and being on the move non stop.
Shunts are far more common than I ever realised and they save lives, I thank my lucky stars every day for the person who invented the shunt without it our boy would not be with us today.
One grief-stricken mother recently contact Mums advice and pleaded with us to raise awareness of swimming pools and the risks involved when in local pools or whilst on holiday.
Now you may be thinking her child had passed away by drowning but this mums story shocked me to the core and we just had to share.
The mum wishes to remain anonymous but she explained her 12-year-old daughter who was a very confident swimming and was never far from her side, died whilst on holiday in Egypt last year due to the vacuum effect in the swimming pools drain.
The drain is powerful enough to hold swimmers, especially young children or light weight adults to the bottom of the pool. Contact between human skin and a flat pool drain can create a huge suction equal to hundreds of pounds of pressure.
In this horrific instance, four adult men were unable to pull this young teenager from the grasp of the deadly drain which ripped out her small intestines as the poor girl and the men struggled to pull her free, by the time the hotel had turned the pump off it was already to late for this girl.
Swimmers can die from drowning or evisceration by these pool drains.
The grief-stricken mother wants to warn all parents to advice their children to steer clear of these filters and to be extra careful when going under water or sitting on the pools floor or using hot tubs especially when on holiday as some countries don’t comply with safety regulations and are putting holiday makers at grave risk.
The mum said that the loss of her daughter has been unbearable to live with but hopes that by sharing her daughters story she may prevent another tragedy happening and stop another family from losing an innocent child or loved one.
Finally a post goes viral for all the right reasons,
The original writer of this is unknown but the message is still very clear, and we have to say we 100% agree with him or her.
“While I sat in Greg’s drinking my brew and eating my sandwich 2 paramedics who were obviously taking a chance to grab A quick bite between call outs came in and joined the queue waiting to get their morning breakfast and cuppa.
Just as they got to the till they got a shout on the radio.
They both laughed at each other and said we never wanted one anyway.
They both rushed out to help someone, possibly even save a life, or live’s.
Now I am only assuming this but I would have thought that those 2 paramedics have one of the most important jobs in the world and everyone else in the queue this morning was going to work, waiting for the shops to open or like me just having a quick brew to keep warm.
Now here is a thought what if we use this social media thing and get people and companies to allow paramedics and all other emergency services to jump the queue and get served as soon as they come in, so they stand half a chance of a drink and food before they go on their day helping people.
Can all my friends and there friends share this post so it may reach the big companies and other people who just might give their spot in the queue.
I myself would always stand back and let them go in front of me after all their next shout may god forbid could be me or someone I know or I love”.
Lets all let not only paramedics but any emergency service workers go ahead of us, after all they are the ones we call upon at our most vunerable times
Do you feel our country puts our children at risk by not having stricter laws and firmer punishments?
Well one mum thinks our country has to many human rights and paedophiles are free to roam the streets unsupervised and parents are not given enough information about who may live in their community or even be living next door or coaching their childs sports team.
Jessica Lori said that In Florida they have a law that if you’re a convicted pedophile, you must have the below notice outside your house and feels that we should roll this over into the United Kingdom.
She also said that in Florida you’re are also able to check online if any convicted child abusers live in the local area, which then will give you the choice to avoid that area and to warn your children to steer clear.
Paedophiles aren’t allowed to live within certain areas, they cannot live near Bus stops, schools, places kids will play and have to avoid entering any areas where children may be.
Many many mums agreed with Jessica and thought that the UK laws are far to weak.
However one mum said that if a sign like that was to be placed outside any of the homes in her local area the public would take it upon themselves to seek out justice and the person within the home wouldn’t live very long.
Another mum said that she would be worried what sort of child abuse case would have a sign, she stated that if a man had sex with a 15-year-old who had lied about her age although he was in the wrong for having intercourse with a minor it is not the same as raping or abusing a young child.
Do you think more needs to be done in this country to protect our children from sick individuals?
One mans rant about free bleeding mum with her children hugging her blood stained legs have gone viral.
Dominick Izzo said:
Look, ladies, you’re doing way more damage than you understand.
Saw a picture of a woman doing an incredible yoga pose in her Instagram account.
She was on her left leg and held her right leg way in the air, almost parallel with her head and straightened spine.
She had her daughter and son (who looked that he was about 5) gripping on to her posted leg, with both of their faces in her crotch… and she was wearing a very small pair of white shorts that clearly showed she was menstruating.
Her caption read, “if this monthly flood of ours makes you uncomfortable, maybe I should remind you where the fuck you come from.”
You think it’s cute. You think your monthly, natural event is beautiful and a celebration… not to a boy it’s not. Because we don’t experience it.
You think this “fluidity thing” is a game for you to play with your children and that sexuality, gender and identity is simply a fun way for you to live vicariously through your children because your mind is fucked up and you’re not going to oppress your child how your parents oppressed you.
Let me tell you something about boys; want to know why they are so much easier to raise than girls?
Because boys are biology designed to do one thing very well… get females pregnant. While little Suzie has a brain that is dynamic and ever-changing, us males are locked on toys, playing war or with toy guns, lego’s and sex.
By around 13 boys are capable of creating life.
And our drive to procreate is also a designed biological miracle. We’re pretty much one tracked minded from pre puberty on.
It’s makes us simple but that’s also a problem because it’s all we think about. And it’s distracting enough in life.
You come along at show Little Johnny how wonderful mommy’s vagina is and confuse him even more with the fact that she’s bleeding and you’re screwing up your child in ways that you should be ordered to therapy for.
When I was 9, friends of mine and I found our first “dirty magazines” while we were playing in an alley. We had NO CLUE what we were seeing.
At 9 years old, a boy shouldn’t be subjected to seeing the images we saw. We weren’t ready to understand what we these grown adults were doing.
But I remember we talking about it for months and passed the magazine around every chance we had.
That was decades ago. All some 9-year-old has to do today is google porn images and Mum and Dad have a lot of talking to do.
Believe it or not, it is a form of PTSD.
Men and women aren’t designed to see body parts blown open on the battle field and little boys aren’t ready to see or focus on sexuality issues that most adults are too embarrassed to admit they don’t even understand yet too.
Stop your bullshit.
Stop pumping your 8-year-old boys with female hormones because YOU have issues.
Stop showing your boys that it’s ok to dress up in girls clothes, because it’s not.
Stop telling you child that they can be anything they want, because that is a lie that will completely destroy them in the long run.
Kids aren’t meant to be your blank canvas where you get to paint anything you want, let the paint dry and then paint something else over it.
Be a parent. Not someone who wants to pump out a creation that is born perfect AS IS, but you think you know better than God does and want to make up for your messed up past.
These last few days have been a blur. This little man has been put through ringer…but tonight he is finally resting.
Saturday: snotty nose, low-grade fever and I noticed he had a molar coming through. So I just assumed it was from the tooth.
Sunday: decreased energy level, high fever and coughing
Monday: lethargic, deeper cough, high fever that wouldn’t break.
We started this journey with our son Jase’s pediatrician how instantly saw a very tired little boy. Jase was admitted Monday afternoon and started on IV fluids, breathing treatments and tamiflu.
Tuesday morning I saw my little boy interested in his surroundings. But within a few hours it all changed…and for what we thought was the worse. Jase started to vomit but it was different…he couldn’t bring everything up. The cough progressed…he became very lethargic again and now his breathing started to decline. Without hesitation we elected to transport Jase to Munson where he would have a better chance of recovering.
Tuesday afternoon Jase took his 2nd ride in an ambulance within minutes of being seen by the next doctor she ordered chest rads and additional blood work.
Hours later this little boy was fading. His oxygen sateration was declining. He needed 100% flow to keep his saturation in the mid 80’s.
After observing him and making adjustment in his meds the doctor started to see him decline…he was really struggling to move air on his own. He started to become very mad when we touched him…he would cry out is shear pain.
Wednesday morning within minutes of getting the bloodwork back at 4:00 am a AreoMed chopper was ordered and our baby boy would be airlifted to DeVos. At this point he was not critical but we didn’t want to wait any longer.
By the time Ryan and I made it to DeVos Jase was put on a bypass machine to help move oxygen. Jase had now been on a continuous albuterol treatment and multiple doses of steriods. Needless to say he was being very hard to handle. He was upset with the mask he needed to wear. He was crying because he wanted water. He would panic for no reason. After talking to the doctors we elected to give Jase a small sedative to help him relax. All the medications were making him upset…but these medications were needed in his recovery.
We watching him struggle, panic, cry, scream, hit and the numbers continued to decline.
So where are we now???
Jase has been intubated and he is now on a ventilator we have many unknowns ahead but this is going to help him rest, help his lung repair the damage and get him back to his cheerful, full of energy self. His little body is so tired and can’t fight the nasty flu virus let along the infection in his lungs.
Warning, Saturday night I got home late and my dog didn’t recognise me. Being a nanny dog I thought I woke him and he was having a night terror.
Sunday he was still acting weird, he just wasn’t his normal self.
I realised I had been running my new diffuser and decided to turn it off.
Today whilst at work my friend who pops into let my dog out said he would not come out from beneath the bed very odd behaviour from a normally very sociable friendly little guy.
I came home from work early to check on him and again he was very confused and out of character,I thought it best to take him to the emergency vets to get him checked over.
Turns out the tea tree oil I had been using in my diffuser was toxic to dogs, I didn’t even put it in his body,even the smell of it can cause damage.
Thankfully tests show that his liver is okay but we aren’t out of the woods yet.
It is now 72 hours after his exposure he was given fluids under his skin to try to clear out all the toxins from his tiny body.
The vets sad they are seeing more an more cases like this as the popularity of essential oils is growing.
Please be sure the essential oils you are using are not toxic to your dog, cat or other pets.
Heres a list of dangerous essential oils.
Anise (Pimpinella anisum)
Birch (Betula)
Bitter Almond (Prunus dulcis)
Boldo (Peumus boldus)
Calamus (Acorus calamus)
Camphor (Cinnamomum camphora)
Cassia (Cassia fistula)
Chenopodium (Chenopodium album)
Cloves (Syzygium aromaticum)
Garlic (Allium sativum)
Goosefoot (Chenopodium murale)
Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana)
Hyssop (Hyssopus sp. with the exception of Decumbens)
Juniper (Juniperus sp. with the exception of Juniper Berry)
My son is seven years old and loves school, he is a very energetic happy lad but my son hates lunch time, all that Joseph likes is peanut butter sandwiches but one kid out of 300 students has a nut allergy.
The school has made a no nut policy where no one is allowed to have any nut products in school.
Ok great so one kid is allergic to nuts so now my son has to go without lunch, he won’t eat school dinners and only likes peanut butter in his sandwiches, he comes home from school and is starving, my poor boy is getting pains in his stomach because he is so hungry.
I pack him a ham sandwich in the hope that he may eat it, all he eats the whole time he’s at school is a piece of fruit and a yogurt asnything else that he likes has traces of nuts in it.
If my son was allergic to the sun they wouldn’t ban daytime now would they.
Why not make this kid eat in another room or go home for lunch, it’s beyond a joke that one kid can rule over the school.
I mean seriously if we didn’t wrap our kids up in cotton wool half these kids with allergies wouldn’t have got them in the first place.
When I was growing up no one had allergies as our mums ate what they wanted when they were pregnant, we didn’t anti bac everything and let kids get dirty and eat what they wanted and if a child had an issue it was their problem not the whole school or community.
If your kid has a nut allergy it really isn’t my problem nor my sons we shouldn’t have to make changes for one person.
