I have a 14-month old son who goes to day care once a week. We love our day care provider. She's been in business for 20 years and loves the kids she watches as if they were her own. I think Sam (our son) would like to go more than one day a week!
Yesterday afternoon when my husband pulled in to pick up our son, he was greeted with the heartstopping sight of police flashers and an ambulance. When he got out of his truck, he heard a little boy was dead. Shortly after, a mother emerged from the house, keening and wailing. A 9-month old, Jonathan, went down for his afternoon nap and didn't wake up. He stopped breathing, apparently of natural causes. As my husband watched, the paramedics brought his little white body out on a stretcher and placed him into the ambulance.
It was such a horrible evening. My heart breaks for the parents who have just lost their only child, and for our wonderful friend and babysitter Sue, who know has to live with the memory of that still baby who greeted her when she went to the crib. My husband and I could hardly sleep last night.
Please be thinking of Jonathan's family as well as Sue's. Sue doesn't know when she'll feel up to watching kids again. When I spoke with her daughter last night, Sue had been sedated.
It's such a tragedy.
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What a tragedy.
Are they thinking SIDS? That always scared the crap out of me.
I agree with Lori SIDS scared me so bad!!!
Sending up a prayer for everyone. How terrible...
my prayers go out....
Sue, her family, and to all their friends.
Little Jonathan was called to Heaven as an angel.
What a tough thing to deal with for those involved.. here on Earth.
I can't imagine the horror that your husband must have felt when he arrived.
My heart breaks for the parents of this little angel and the babysitter.
My baby girl is 8 months old and in the hands of DCS and the state and I cry every day, worrying about her, not getting to hold her and I've went through the same grief as this mother and I cannot tell anyone how terrible it is, to not get to hold your child, put them to sleep, having nightmares, and seeing other kids cry in the store or make a noise is the hardest. You look back and stare....and then, you want to just break down and cry or just hold that child or hug them (would be inappropriate), but its literal hell... Let's put it that way...
i have a 11 month old and that bothers me so much.
A couple in our community just lost their baby daughter. They came home from church and each thought the other got her out of the car and put her for a nap. It was 95 degrees the day she died in the car.
I check on my babies all the time when they sleep and I always think about the possibilities. But what can we do? Maybe I should look into one of those alarms that goes off if they stop breathing.
My heart and prayers goes out to this woman and the family.
Suzi
and the stories others have told are just as sad.