A couple of weeks ago OH and I had the scare of our lives and i wanted to tell you all about so you can see for real the dangers of co-sleeping with your babies!!

It was a Saturday Night and one of our twin girls (12 weeks at the time 7 weeks prem) wouldnt settle after I had fallen to sleep, so my OH decided to get her out of her cot and comfort her back to sleep. This went disastrously wrong when he accidentally fell asleep with her.

I awoke at 2.30 to other twin Ashlea screaming her head off (she was still in Cot) i looked across and realised Stevie was not in the cot i then noticed that she was face down in between my husband and I on the bed. She was grunting and there was blood coming from her nose and mouth and she was unconscious. I screamed for my husband to wake up and we tried to bring her round, which she wouldnt.

We were at the time unable to get any phone signal on our phones (we have new ones now) and so i had to stand outstide and call an ambulance for her, she didnt come round at all and was still grunting really bad.

The Ambulance arrived and said that they needed to get her to the hospital asap or else!!

we arrived at the hospital and 4 doctors were trying to put canulas in all at once but she was starting to close downm by this time she also had hypothermia and her blood sugar was dangeroulsy high because of the stress. they finally managed to get a canula and some fluids into her and thankfully she picked up.

we then spent the next few days in the hospital just checking her over.

this is a shocking story and i honestly believe that my darling daughter would not be here today of her twin had not woken us up,

I would strongly urge you never to take your babies to bed with you no matter how awake you feel if they wake in the night then get up and sit in an uncomfortable chair to feed them, to ensure that you stay awake.

We have been assured by our HV that there are not many parents who can honestly say they have not taken their babies into their bed at night but wihtout such horrid consequences.

Please think about this.

Sarah xx

OMG!!!

Thank goodness she's ok. thanks so much for alerting us to this i've just copied your post to my sis who's got a 4 month old and she is always falling asleep with her little one.

must have been a terrifying ordeal for you both , thanks again for warning us

xxx:o

oh my! thank god everythings ok! i too will be copying this post to show my sister who insists on recommending to me that i shld sleep with lo in bed with us, she did this with her 3 daughters and thinks its perfectly fine! we've had countless 'words' about it but still she doesn't see the harm, she reckons it must be ok, cos what did they do in the days before cots??? she really is deluded!! the mind boggles! anyhoo, sry about the rant. soo glad ur lo is ok.

take care

xx

oh my god, im shocked actually even tho ive never taken any of my other children into bed i never fot anything so serious could happen..

glad ur baby is ok, u must have been terrified hon xxxxxx

Aw hun, it must have been so scary, I am glad she's OK now.

My lo (6 months) suffers with severe eczema and the last few weeks he was terrible and itching so bad he was waking every hour in the night. I took him into my bed just to have some peace cos I was so tired after nights & nights of this (OH works at night), and I woke up to him whining....I was leaning on his foot!

xx

OMG what an awful thing to happen to you!! You must have been so scared, i'm glad she's ok. I used to have my babies in with me all the time, and then a girl i know through a friend fell asleep on the sofa with her baby. When she woke up he was wedged between her and the arm of the sofa, not breathing. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. He was 9 weeks old. The post mortem showed that he had rolled on to his face and suffocated. It was the most awful time, his mum was so devestated, and still is. Since then i've never had my babies in bed with me, and always tell people about this poor baby when they co sleep with their babies. I know the tales are awful and upsetting, but people do really need to know the risks! What annoys me is the mums who insist that sleeping with your baby in your bed is the best thing to do and that mums who put their babies in cots are detached. I found a website with a load of mums slagging off those of us who want our babies safe, and got so mad about some of the things they had said!

what an awful thing to happen, so gld shes okay! i personally have never let either of my daughters sleep in my bed as i dont agree with it, but i bet there are thousands of people out there who do, i would post this on the baby forum if i were you t make more ppl aware of the dangers :)

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This is such a shock and tragic event, I am glad she's ok, but you have made me sure i'll never out my babies in bed with me. x

oh gosh hun, i have just read this story, and i was in tears..... i know how hard it is to stay awake when they are little and they wake in the night.. i always woke my husband if i had one in the bed so that he knew and he wont let e fall to sleep. the night i did fall to sleep by mistake, tatum rolled out of bed, i was so ditrught by the whole thing, i was a mess the next day.... as you so how ever tired you are, you should try to make sure self stay awake..
but its best not to beat your self up about it, it happened and she is ok which is the main thing hun, and you found her in time, which is all that matters....
we all learn from our mistakes...

all the very best hun