Dexy Leigh Walsh thought she was preventing her 18-month-old daughter from falling out of her bed by stuffing it with teddy bears. Tragically, this well-intentioned decision actually led to her little girl’s death.
Connie Rose suffocated in her sleep after rolling under a large teddy bear in her bed at her family’s home in Dundee, Scotland, sometime before the morning of March 6.
Her grieving mother has since begun an awareness campaign through Facebook to help warn other parents of the dangers of keeping soft toys in cots and beds.
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How devastating, condolences to the family.
I did think this was a very well known fact, hopefully others learn from this tragedy!
I'm frequently being told by my mother-in-law that bub needs a pillow and toys, at the very least a blanket and cot bumper - "he'll be so lonely in that big cot! OUR generation's children turned out fine! I don't know ANYONE whose child has suffocated in their cot!" Yes well I'd like to keep it that way, thanks.