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Mom Issues Urgent Warning After One-Year-Old Son Killed By Common Household Item
A mom is issuing an urgent warning after her one-year-old son was tragically killed by a common household item.
Idaho mother Lindsay Dewey shared the heartbreaking news of her 22-month-old son Reed’s passing on her Instagram.
Just days prior, she had asked her followers for prayers, announcing: “Reed has had a traumatic accident, and we need a miracle. Please, please just agree and pray with us right now and for the days and weeks to come.”
Tragically, Dewey’s son never recovered from the incident, and she’s now using her platform to spread awareness.
After hearing the devastating news of Reed’s passing, tributes poured in from followers.
One person wrote: “This is such an eye opener. It never crossed my mind that it could somehow accidentally happen to one of my children.”
Another said: “I am a pediatrician and heard about your story and want to thank you for sharing it. When we lose a child due to a safety accident, it’s so important to share.”
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), tip-over incidents occur when children have climbed onto, fallen against, or pulled themselves up on furniture.
The report states that 37 percent of children’s fatalities involved falling televisions alone, 34 percent involved both televisions and furniture, and 24 percent involved furniture alone falling, such as a chest, dresser, or a bureau.
Dewey shared the lengths she and her husband go to when ensuring safety in their home, including child locks on windows, gates, and doors, in addition to monitors and anchors on dressers.
The mom wrote: “We’ve been pretty proactive in the only one year of living in this home.”
Dewey recounted the moments leading up to the tragic accident in a series of Instagram Stories.
“Last I saw him, he was sitting near the kitchen by the pool table playing with Magna-Tiles by himself,” she recalled.
“I remember looking right at him when I passed him and thought how cute it was he was playing by himself instead of with his siblings… He was just so content and happy. And that was the last memory or image I have in my head of him.”
Dewey said she’d never heard her son playing by or with the ‘heavy duty’ mirror in their house, which was leaning on the wall.
Moments later, however, the mom heard a loud crash. She discovered the mirror had fallen, and Reed was underneath it.
Dewey wrote: “I looked at him to see if he was okay and he was laying there eyes open but not crying and I felt relieved thinking he must’ve been okay, just in shock or something.”
She then realized something was very wrong with Reed because his behavior was off.
Dewey noticed a green suction bowl on the mirror; she believed Reed had stuck it to the mirror, but when he tried to remove it, the mirror fell on top of him.
The mom continued: “The mirror hit his head in the most precise way and fractured his skull,” which caused a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Dewey feels compelled to share Reed’s story with other parents to warn them of potential risks.
She said: “It’s eating at me because I feel like people who have mirrors in their homes with little kids need to know this.
“As much as I hate that Reed’s precious life had to be taken from this, it definitely makes me relieved to know that sharing should help prevent this trauma/tragedy from happening to another child/family.”
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