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  • Child Dies From Holding In Vomit

    FOR YOUR INFORMATION

    A 16 year old boy recently died. He and his brother were sleeping in the same room. Late night he got up to vomit. His brother said he held his hand to his mouth and went to the bathroom. After vomiting, he complained of difficulty in breathing. Later died.

    Now it has been declared by Doctor that he held on to his vomit till he reached the toilet in order to not to spoil the bed or carpet, and that’s what choked him. The vomit went straight into his wind pipe & the breathing tract. …..

    So, we should let kids puke wherever they want, and then go to the bathroom. We should never force them to hold on to their vomit till they reach the bathroom.

    The carpet can always be washed, but we cannot get a child back.

    Please pass on this message.

    It’s informative and It may save a life. (CTTO)

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  • This Sock May Have Saved My Babies Life

    For the people who know that we use an “Owlet Sock Monitor” on our daughter: read this story. For those who don’t know we use it: read this story. For those who have no clue what an Owlet is, but possibly know anyone who’s having a baby or thinking about someday having a baby: read this story.

    To put this briefly, baby girl’s sock monitor may have saved her life last night.

    The Owlet is a pulse-ox monitor that is worn as a sock when she’s sleeping. It will alert when it’s not placed right on her foot and cannot get a good reading. It will alert when there’s poor connection because of internet, or what have you. And it also does a SCARY alert when an oxygen or heart rate level drops too low.

    We initially wanted this item just for a peace of mind— nothing was wrong with her health. It was expensive, so we hesitated (and I get the vibe that any new or expecting mommas that ask me about it feel this same way). I thought, “Is this thing really worth it?” UMMMMM HARD YES. It alarmed us with that scary noise at about 3am last night. My husband got to her first and basically ripped her out of that crib because we were both terrified. She had rolled over in her sleep and was on her belly, face down. But she is OK.

    However, the further we looked into the graphs that the app shows of her breathing pattern through the night, it had gradually started dropping from about 215am on. And at the same time, she was in a deep sleep. So she had no clue she needed to turn her face. Was this a progression into SIDS? We don’t know. But what I do know is I’m thankful for that Owlet so I didn’t have to find out the answer to that! Owlet

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  • Yes Comfort Toys Are Dangerous When Baby Is Sleeping

    I am asked about comfort toys like this or little taggie blankets. So many say to me surly these can’t be dangerous they’re so little.

    Sadly the truth is when it comes to suffocation or asphyxiation because of re breathing co2 I sadly have known a precious baby to die from tiny corner of a bed sheet covering his nose and causing him to suffocate. So I truly do try and explain how unsafe even the smallest comforter is.

    An how when small all babies are nose breathers and so If even one nostril is covered this means they are re Breathing their co2 and also their oxygen is being deprived.

    Also a small blanket can even smother a little newborn . So as sweet as some think or as precious as one believes a comfort toy is they really are dangerous be it a tiny taggie or a big teddy. When I see mums in groups talking about what comforter their children / babies have sometimes my heart misses a beat at pictures I see.

    So please please be aware of the dangers of absolutely any type of teddy or blanket no matter the size. Safe clutter free sleep environment. ABCs is the only way to sleep your precious bundle of joy. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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  • Not Every Doctor Is Right They Don’t Know Everything

    This is my daughter Amelia, she was born at North Staffordshire hospital at 3.30pm on 23/9/2017 Saturday evening I was induced due to excessive fluid and spd.i had a horrible pregnancy when I gave birth to Amelia she was purple and could not swallow she was foaming from the mouth the midwives convinced me she had a strider to which I knew it was more as I’d previously had 2 children before.

    The midwife then left me and Amelia’s father alone for 1h45 minutes I rang the emergency buzzer as she was getting dramatically worse in her health, an intensive care pediatric consultant came for Amelia and rushed her to nicu where they went on to putting tubes down her nose, at this point the only way Amelia could get rid of her secretions was to be lay flat on her belly otherwise she would choke.

    At 10.45pm Amelia had further test done with the tube they tried to suck air out of her belly to which had no success they had no idea why this was happening so they ordered a scan, after the scan we were told Amelia was unable to swallow and that she could have a few different defects and that her life was 50/50, they couldn’t tell us for sure what it was she had and they didn’t know what to do or how to treat it as they had never seen this condition before, I never left amelias side in the nicu all that night they left amelia on her belly all that time with no proper Amelia’s care or diagnosis.

    At 1am a doctor came to me to tell me Amelia would either be moved to alder hey or Birmingham to get a diagnosis and fix the problem yes they called her a problem 😡 at this stage me and her father had no idea what to do we were both distraught 😩, a private ambulance came from Birmingham at 3am to collect Amelia and straight away knew what she had they were absolutely disgusted with how they had cared for her, they attached suction tubes in her mouth and oxygen down her nose, when arriving at Birmingham we were met by three surgical consultants who I must admit were lovely they explained everything in such detail they also noted that Amelia’s condition should have been picked up on my anti natal scan and I shouldn’t have had Amelia by natural birth and this could have killed her I should have had a planned birth with them.

    At 10am Sunday morning aged 10 hours Amelia went down to have a major operation at this stage we know she has tracheo-oesophageal fistula/ distal esophageal atresia, when Amelia came out of her operation 8 hours later it was a huge success she spent 3 days in intensive care.

    While in intensive care Amelia would not wake up this was due to the amount of pain killers and sedation she was on, one doctor of the intensive care ward ordered Amelia to come off all drugs and sedation and to replace these with paracetamol, the surgeon also ordered Amelia to be weaned of the ventilation within 24 hours otherwise she would become dependent.

    When they put Amelia on c-cap she sat very low on all oxygen levels and heart rate they said this was due to the 3 days Amelia was on the ventilation that it causes respiratory distress and can also cause bacterial pneumonia so she was on very strong antibiotics the whole time we spent in the hospital.

    Moral of the story not every doctor is right not every doctor can say what they have, we don’t have enough medically trained specialists, every child deserves a chance and If it wasn’t for Birmingham Amelia certainly would not be here now.

    Credit Abbie Richardson

  • Being Obese Is Really Not Beautiful

    Being fat is not beautiful

    If you are obese please sort yourself out you are not beautiful you are unhealthy and need to learn how to cook healthy, nutritious meals and that you have the ability to walk places and exercise, slimming word is relatively cheap so are vegetables.

    Being fat causes great strain on the NHS, did you know that obesity costs Britain more money than the war on terror , you increase the chances of getting diabetes, cancer, strokes, heart disease and depression but that’s your problem, my biggest problem is you will claim DLA for being fat, I mean come on being fat is not an illness it is pure laziness and the lack of self-control.

    There is a worrying trend of obese parents whose children are also dangerously over weight, don’t we all want whats best for our children, well I don’t feel your child struggling to run around with their friends a is a great start in life, you are setting them up to fail.

    Campaigns go round saying love your skin, big is beautiful, but stretch marks, flappy bits of skin and heavy breathing from walking up a flight of stairs is not attractive in the slightest, now I know some larger people can;’t help it ie on steroids or thyroid problems but not all of you can use this excuse!!!

    Now if you wish to eat like a pig or stay sat down in front of the tv whilst claiming benefits that’s up to you, but no one can persuade me that big is beautiful, unhealthy yes but beautiful heck no!!

    Sent in via email by Patricia Scott of Cumbria

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