11 MONTH OLD DIES FROM LAYING IN A CAR SEAT

A couple from Oklahoma, Ali and Derek are currently on a campaign educating parents on the danger of laying their kids to sleep on a car seat. This campaign is informed from their own experience. The couple had dropped their 11-week old son, Shepard with a childminder who placed him in his car seat to sleep rather than a cot. Police investigations reveal that not only was the toddler put to sleep in an unbuckled seat, he was also left unsupervised. Tragedy struck when the childminder returned to discover that the child was no longer breathing.
In response to this tragedy, Ali and Derek have elected to educate other parents on the danger that such acts of neglect pose to the lives of their little ones.
They said " We want to stress that our mission is not to put any more fear in parents about how to keep their children safe.
“Our mission is simply to educate them and make people aware of dangers that many of us really didn’t know about before.
“When a car seat is properly used, as it is intended to be used, which is for travel purposes only, and if a baby is frequently and properly supervised while in them, then a car seat isn’t a dangerous thing to use.
"Same goes for rockers, swings, slings, or any other rocking, travelling or sitting device.”
Ali, who has an older son Presley, five, added: “Despite how many deaths are caused by unsafe sleep practices and how many new studies and factual information published about the dangers of using car seats and sitting devices for sleeping, we are still seeing a shocking number of folks out there saying how many doctors and paediatricians still actually encourage new parents to put their baby in car seats to sleep if they have acid reflux or other similar problems.
"They are misleading and putting lives in danger every time they promote unsafe sleep practices.
"The public has to be aware of these dangers and be proactive about avoiding them.
"The risk is just not worth it, and sometimes you just have to play it safe even if it's inconvenient.
"Our children's lives are so much more important than convenience.
"Why wouldn’t parents want to take every single precaution they possibly could to keep their babies safe?
"Not to mention, parents also should feel confident that the child care providers that we trust to care for our babies are also doing everything they should be doing to keep them safe

May God rest his soul.