This poor family. My heart breaks for this woman. These are screenshots from her FB. Hopefully we all learn from this and honor her baby by promoting safe sleep spaces.
https://www.babble.com/parenting/jordon-derosier-crib-blanket-dangers/
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i can't even imagine the horror and pain of losing your baby and finding him. praying for their family.
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This is horrible.
I can't begin to imagine the pain they are feeling.
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@birdofafeather: @FancyGem: I know. I did not post this to be gossipy or judgmental. I posted it because I feel like their baby deserves to be thought about and to make a difference.
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So horrible. I can't even imagine what these parents must be going through. I wonder how old the baby was.
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So heartbreaking. These types of stories are always horrible but I can hardly bear to read them since becoming a parent.
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@Meowkers: 7 Months
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So heartbreaking. I heard about it and didn't get to read the whole story. It's worse that some parents are shaming her on Facebook.
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@Meowkers: The linked article says 7 months...rolling, crawling, pulling up, etc.
I've been letting my 5.5 month old sleep with a burp rag, which is her lovey, but I think we will be going cold turkey on that one.
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@IRunForFun: I'm sure these parents will be blaming themselves their entire life for giving such a young baby a blanket. So horrific.
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Horrible
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So so sad. I can't imagine.
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Breaks my heart. After I read about this the other day I removed a too big for the bed blanket from my 2.5 year old. Scares me. I can't even stand to see my 2.5 year old with a blanket over her head in her crib, which is how she sometimes falls asleep. I pray for them to find peace because I would imagine life feels pretty miserable for them.
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These poor parents
my heart goes out to them.
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I've been following this story. I can only imagine how those parents are feeling, and the poor brother!
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7 months omg! I assumed newborn. My baby has had a blanket since six months (19 months now). I wonder if I should take it.
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This makes my stomach turn. My 14 month old snuggles with his lovey (8" by 8" with a teddy in the middle) and I want to go up now and take it out...
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Gut wrenching read & so very heart breaking.
I've been nervous to let my 2yo sleep with a blanket, & this won't help. My deepest sorrow & sympathies to this family. 
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This is so heartbreaking. My son turns 8 months tomorrow and I can't even imagine the pain and grief this family is going through. I introduced a lovey to my DD at 6 months but for some reason haven't yet with DS. After reading this, I will continue to hold off on putting anything in his crib.
Ugh I just want to go and pick my sleeping baby up and hold him right now. Those poor parents, I just feel sick about this.
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This is terribly sad and my heart breaks for them.
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What a horrible tragedy! I can't even fathom what those poor parents & their other son are going through. Lots of ugly crying right now thinking about the horror of living that out. For whatever reason, we've never done blankets or lovies before one & I know that's the AAP recommendation, but I honestly always assumed that when they were mobile enough to crawl, etc, like she described in the article that the risk of blankets was mostly nil. I have never thought about it getting stuck around the railing somehow and basically strangling them, which is the impression I got from the article. Based on that, is a baby in a crib ever really safe with a blanket?!? My little is over 2 1/2 but still in a crib and I suddenly feel a little unsure of his blanket situation.
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This is just horrible. Thankfully her grief is to describe and share because I don't think we really understand something without the details (at least not for me).
DH was more of a stickler of not introducing a lovey or covering up LO than I was when he became an older infant. Our ped and many blogs/ boards suggested we use one, but I have always been confused about them. If a lovey is supposed to be a comfort/ sleep aid, but you're not supposed to put loose things in a crib- how does it work?
When we had a baby safety company inspect our house they recommended we move a basket of swaddling blankets near his crib. They said he could reach them through his crib slats and pull them through.
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This is so heartbreaking.
And I totally understand how this happens - both my kids had a tendency to pull their blankets up over their heads, so it definitely happens! We took Xander's blanket away when we realized he was doing it and gave him a tiny lovey instead. We got lucky. This poor family.. -
I can't even read it. Makes my stomach hurt too bad. How terrible!! This is one of the reasons I use a monitor with the movement sensor, used it with DD until she was 3yo and will do the same with DS... so so so sad for this family!
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My heart is broken for her. After I read this the other day I took the blanket out of my 19 month old's crib. Not worth it.
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Heartbreaking. With a six month old, it's easy to picture, which makes me all sorts of a mess. I just want to hug that Mom so tight. No ill intent, something many, many parents do and she has to pay the worst price. Not fair, that poor little soul, heart breaks for him.
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I just saw on FB a friend post about her son's first night in crib at 4 months and he has a blanket, I want to say something so bad!
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@FaithFertility: You should. Some parents just don't realize it's not safe.
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My heart goes out to this family. Please people do not judge them and solely send them your prayers and thoughts. I had a friend who lost her almost three month old. Watching someone you love go through that pain is the hardest thing to do. May none of us ever experience the loss of a child.
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This made me cry so hard, I held DS for as long as he would let me after reading this. I then had nightmares last night, since becoming a mom I have a really hard time seeing anything about babies dieing. I can not imagine the pain of losing a child, and my heart breaks for this family. And then to hear that people are scolding her on Facebook, has my faith in humanity slipping away. I've also been giving DS a blanket since 9months old, and I was under the impression that one year old is considered the acceptable age for blankets, is that wrong? This is definitly going to stick with me for a while.
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How heartbreaking.
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I've been following on Facebook. The small shop community (mom is a small shop owner) really rallied for this family and held a HUGE auction to raise money for burial costs. My heart just aches for them.
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Ugh, so heartbreaking, I couldn't even read it all without ugly crying (and I'm at work so I stopped).
We had a huge scare with our daughter. We had a bad habit of draping her bath towel over the side of her crib to dry (stupid, I know). We usually used the little infant towels, but had one full-size towel with an attached hood that my mom made for her, and that was the one on the edge of the crib this day. I came to get her from a nap and she was completely rolled up in it - around her neck, body, like a little mummy. She was still happy and smiling but I freaked out. So scary! We got SO lucky, and I'm still kicking myself for that first-time parents, stupid decision. She was about 4 months and had just mastered rolling both directions so we weren't quite used to her being able to move around by herself yet.
She's now 14 months and we're still using just sleep sacks, but recently added her 2 small lovey stuffed animals. I was considering switching to a blanket and adding a small pillow but I think I'll hold off.
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@Adira: I did! I PM her
But
...AJ has an A&A lovey and now I am thinking ughhhhj -
@FaithFertility: Ugh, I know what you mean. A&A blankets tend to be so breathable, but it can be scary. Both my kids liked to pull their loveys over their head.
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@sunnyday: Now I'm holding back tears at work reading this. It hit way to close to home with our similar aged babies.
@MamaG: Right? Now I'm questioning if this can happen to our big girls too?!
I totally want to leave work and go to school and grab both kids and hug them tight
Sometimes I've gotten nervous bed sharing with both my girls; and right now I'm SO glad that DD2 wakes up a few times overnight still.
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this is so utterly heartbreaking
my 21 month old sleeps with a muslin blanket and now i'm wondering if I should take it out of his crib
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@hellobeeboston: Did the post describe what kind of blanket her baby slept with (I couldn't read it... too heartbreaking
)? I know the A&A muslim blankets we have seem sooooo breathable, so I would hope they would be safe?? But I don't really know (and I don't know the details of her child's death because I couldn't read it...).
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@Adira: I thought it meantioned that it was a blanket made my the grandma? I don't think it was muslin. However, I don't know if it would have mattered in this case. It sounds like the blanket got wrapped through the crib bars somehow and around the baby and he was strangled. The breathability of muslin wouldn't have helped.
so awful.
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: I think maybe the difference if the lovey is a blanket it is typically much smaller in the size. My DD has an A&A Issie lovey and it's very small. I never worried about it in the crib after 6 months. In this article it sounds like it was a full blanket.
That being said, a few months ago I was letting my DS play with his little lovey in his crib while I was putting laundry away and I heard him coughing. He had shoved the whole thing in his mouth. That, coupled with this story makes me think I'll never let him have a lovey or blanket.
I can't begin to imagine the pain they are feeling.
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