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I just wanted to share that on another site that I am part of, a Mother lost her 2 year old son, Corey.
Here are some of her words:
"We are home now with none of the kids and we don't know what to do with ourselves.
We are still in great shock, I know in the morning it will hit full force and we will just never want to feel anything again.
Corey climbed into a drawer in his dresser and it fell over and his neck was stuck in the drawer and he passed immediately I was told.
I took him out of the dresser and held his poor lifeless body, I knew he was gone.
this is really helping me to write this here.
We got to hold him and hug him and kiss him at the hospital.
Thanks for all your prayers and support and please keep it up because we are going to need it in these days ahead.
Please fasten your dressers and furniture against a wall.[/b]
None of our furniture is tethered. I actually was just thinking the other day that Davey is old enough now, but this changed my mind, I am going to go get a tether asap and a stud finder so DH can mount his dresser.
I cannot even wrap my mind around the pain there must be when you lose your own child. I cannot imagine, Ella is every part of my day, even when I'm at work, she's what I go for, and this one coming will just add to that... I cannot imagine. I'd want to die with them.
How incredibly sad... I have to say it though- this happens all the time Never think your LO isnt strong enough, tall enough, sneaky enough, whatever enough to get into trouble like that- they are and they will and they do and it only takes half a second for it to be too late...
Last year at my station we had several incidents like this:
A TV set was pulled down by an 18 month old little girl- it weighed about 100lbs- she lived, thankfully
We had a 22 month old drown in a bath tub- mom turned away to close the bathroom door- he didnt make it
We had an 8 month old drown in a baby pool that was partially deflated and empty except for an inch of rain water on one end- she didnt make it
We had an 18 month old get in a dresser drawer/tipped the dresser over- broke his arm and leg in multiple places and ended up with pretty severe head injuries
Had a 24 month old strangled on the hose of the vacuum cleaner- mom was vacuuming and didnt see her get wrapped in it, or hear her gasping for air- she died
And a 16 month old that drown in the toilet- she lived, but is now severely mentally retarded and will never live a normal life or live independently
A 7 month old that was strangled on the cord for the blinds- he didnt make it either
And TONS of burns and injuries that werent serious enough to mention here, but were bad enough to cause life changing issues for many many LOs and families.
AND mind you- these are JUST the calls I was actually on... Im sure there were many, many more. I cant say enough about using EVERY single system out there for baby proofing. It may be expensive, or a pain to get everything set up or to maintain and be an inconvenience for you or DH or older kids to live with these things in place- but how much would it cost you to loose a child and how inconvenienced would you be for the rest of your life by agonizing over something so simple going so very wrong... I just really, really cant urge you all enough. There is a reason these products are made, use them- all of them- all the time- no questions asked.
That is HEARTBREAKING OMG....I cannot even begin to imagine
None of our furniture is tethered....it never even crossed my mind that dressers could be dangerous. WOW...I will be re-safety proofing our house thats for sure.
OMG how sad that you had to be on all those calls Emily. Another thing I keep meaning to get are blind cord things. I loop the cords WAY up high onto the blinds, but I have a mini panic attack about it every night.
As for the TV, I can't even move it, it's very old and heavy (it takes DH and BIL just to move it), and I know for a fact a child couldn't move it, but even if we wanted to, we can't tether it because it's in a corner.
AND mind you- these are JUST the calls I was actually on... Im sure there were many, many more. I cant say enough about using EVERY single system out there for baby proofing. It may be expensive, or a pain to get everything set up or to maintain and be an inconvenience for you or DH or older kids to live with these things in place- but how much would it cost you to loose a child and how inconvenienced would you be for the rest of your life by agonizing over something so simple going so very wrong... I just really, really cant urge you all enough. There is a reason these products are made, use them- all of them- all the time- no questions asked.[/b]
Total eye opener for me.....
Emily thank you so much for sharing your stories as well. Sometimes we tend to forget how easy things can happen. I mean I'm super cautious with DS but something can happen so quickly.
You may have very well just saved the life of one of my own kids. I am definetly going to go over every inch of this house, and be sure every preventable accident will be prevented!
I may be a bit of a worry wart or a nervous Nancy about this stuff (heck I wont even install my own car seat Ive seen so many horrors)- but I cant hide from it happening and those things stick in my mind more so than any heart attack or call for an elderly person or a sick person or whatever... Children are just so innocent. These calls haunt me, I re-live them when I see children, I have nightmares of the bad ones and am contantly thinking about these poor babies. It KILLS me that I couldnt fix it, so I can only imagine what their parents go through. I wouldnt wish that pain or those memories on my worst enemy... Its just so awful, I cant even express. Please be careful girls, I dont ever want to see any of you go through such horrible things- I care waay to much for you all and your precious families...
Thanks for posting this - it is such an important reminder. A friend of a friend just lost her 4 year-old girl to a cord blind accident. The mother was making dinner and the daughter apparently went into the master bedroom and stood on their bed to play with the blind cords. And last year my SIL's friend lost her adopted 3-year old girl. She had gone to take a shower while the daughter was to be watching TV on their bed (like she always did). Apparently the girl got up and wanted to get something on the top of their tall dresser. When she tried to climb up on it, the dresser toppled and instantly killed her.
I can't even begin to imagine their pain.
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Totally heartbreaking. Braeden managed to pull his dresser down twice before we figured out to tether it. Once he nearly knocked himself out with the corner of it. I will always secure ours and will never ever put a t.v. on a dresser. Scares the bejesus out of me.
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OMG!! That is so sad! I cannot imagine what I would feel if an accident like that happened to my kids. I am hurt for the child and the poor family that has to live with this for the rest of their lives. It really really really made me think twice of what my younger one could possibly get into. I just never thought something like that could happen...I just moved into a new apartment and I have not baby proofed ANYTHING! I will definately be really really soon! ITS JUST SO HEARTBREAKING TO HEAR OF STORIES LIKE THIS!!!
I am thankful you ladies posted these stories--devastating to think about losing a child. Anyway, yesterday, my brother gave us a small t.v., and I was going to put it on my sons' dresser today. But because of this reality, I have totally changed my mind. Thanks so much for the reality check. You ladies may have just saved any one of my childrens' lives!
No family should have to go through pain like this. It totally breaks my heart. And it makes me really worried about our furniture at home. We should have it fastenened....
Oh goodness---how heartbreaking! Thank you so much for this reality post--we have some of our things tethered, but not all because 'we never got around to it'. Looks like I need to get off my butt and just do it!
Unfortunately I had a similar thing happen to me. Thankfully nothing major happened to her.
My DD climbed on her dresser and it toppled over. She had a tv on it. the only thing that happened is she bruised her wrist pretty good and was scared to death. I am thankful everyday for that being the only thing that happened because it could have been a lot worse. She could have had the tv fall on her head or the dresser cause more damage to her.
So yes, a highly execellent idea to tether your furniture to the wall.
Thank you for bringing it to our attention!!!
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Never think your LO isnt strong enough, tall enough, sneaky enough, whatever enough to get into trouble like that- they are and they will and they do and it only takes half a second for it to be too late...
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