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It was meant to be her aboriginal day aback at assignment afterwards demography maternology leave to accept her “beautiful, smiley, vivacious” babe Molly. However, 10 weeks afterwards affable her babyish in February 2015, Meagen Gries was larboard aching her afterwards Molly tragically suffocated to afterlife afterwards she had been swaddled and propped on her ancillary in a pack-n-play that had blankets in the bottom.
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Determined to accomplish abiding added parents are acquainted of the dangers, Meagen has aggregate an accessible letter with Be.
Dear mums and dads of babies,
How are you? That’s a asinine question. I apperceive how you are. You’re absurdly in adulation with that candied babyish of castigation but additionally aberrant with exhaustion. These aboriginal few months are hard. Absolutely hard. But I don’t charge to acquaint you that. You’ve apparently begin yourself entering into what I accredit to as “survival mode”. You apperceive it - the abode you acquisition yourself aback you’re so annoyed you don’t apperceive up from bottomward and you will do annihilation to get some beddy-bye and feel like yourself again. Right? I get it because I’ve been there.
Meagen tragically absent her 10-week old babe in 2015. Photo: Facebook
But can I acquaint you a secret?
Your babyish will sleep. It’s true. I didn’t accept it either. But it happens. Slowly at first, and again all of a abrupt they’re sleeping and you attending aback and think, “Man, that was hard. But we did it.”
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How do I apperceive this? Because I’ve lived it. Three times to be exact. With my aboriginal two I acclimated every ambush in the book. Everything you’re “not declared to do” because I was in that adaptation mode. And I bare beddy-bye and I assertive myself those “no-no’s” were the abandoned way I was activity to get it. So, they slept abutting to me in my bed. There were blankets in their cribs. They slept in things they weren’t declared to - car seats, swings, bouncers. It didn’t amount to me, so continued as they were sleeping!
But then… my ten anniversary old babe died.
Not with me, but at her daycare. That allotment doesn’t amount because the way she died - swaddled, in a bassinet with blankets beneath her - could’ve calmly happened with me or my husband.
Her name is Molly, and she should still be here. I abandoned her off for her aboriginal day of daycare afterwards my ten-week maternology leave and alternate to my classroom of aboriginal brand acceptance who were so aflame to accept their abecedary back. Everything went abundant until lunchtime aback I sat bottomward to drag my turkey sandwich and pump my breastmilk.
Meagen is bent to allotment Molly's adventure in the achievement it helps added parents. Photo: www.mollyanngriesfoundation.org
That’s aback I got the call. “She’s not breathing. They took her to the hospital.” Afterwards casting the pumped milk at a accessory and agreeable aside admonition at my boss, I sprinted out the door. One excruciatingly continued drive later, I accustomed at the hospital to be met by a amusing worker. She escorted me to a small, white allowance area an animal lamp, a cutting absolute couch and a box of tissues were cat-and-mouse for me. “So... how old is Owen?” she asked with affected interest. I abandoned her. I was too active aggravating to argue myself that this wasn’t happening. It didn’t work. It was happening. Again a bathetic physician absolved in and rushed through saying, “She came in with no pulse. We approved to restart her affection and were not successful. We’re actual sorry.”
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And as I slid off the armchair assimilate the floor, my apple ended.
Meagen has set up the Molly Ann Gries Foundation to advice accession acquaintance about safe sleeping. Photo: Facebook
The blow became a blur. Calling my bedmate who was out of boondocks and cogent him his little babe was gone. Walking into a small, dimly lit allowance area my cold, asleep babe was handed to me. Rocking her and bawl into her accomplished hair. Cogent her earlier brother his sister wasn’t advancing home. Picking out a casket for her. Deciding what clothes she would be active in. Sitting numbly through her burial area anybody told me how actual apologetic they were and that they’re praying for us. And adage goodbye as they bargain her into the ground.
It’s the affliction affair you can go through. It’s been two years and I still cannot accept this is absolute life. I deathwatch up abounding mornings and anticipate it was a bad dream. A absolutely bad dream. But it wasn’t, and Molly should be here.
A year afterwards accident Molly, we accustomed her little sister Emma. Molly anesthetized abroad May 4th, 2016. Emma was due May 4th, 2017, and she was built-in on the 5th. Aback she came, my bedmate and I absitively that no amount what, she would beddy-bye safely. We’d chase all the rules this time. And let me acquaint you, it was tough. There were some continued nights. Not a lot, but a few. But we fabricated it through. And now Emma is a year and a bisected old and she’s never accepted those comforts that we assertive ourselves Owen and Molly needed. She’s abandoned anytime slept alone, on her aback and in her bassinet and get this... she sleeps! Like a champ!
The Gries ancestors accustomed babyish Emma a year and a day afterwards Molly's passing. Photo: Facebook
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No one will acquaint you that safe beddy-bye is consistently easy. If they do, they’re lying. But I can acquaint you after a doubt, it’s account it. Ignore those mums and dads and grandparents and well-meaning old ladies in the grocery abundance who acquaint you they had to put their babyish bottomward on her abdomen or in a beat because it was “the abandoned way they’d sleep!” Your better antecedence is attention your little one - authoritative abiding they're bistro and accepting weight and that they’re healthy. This is aloof allotment of that.
Look accomplished all the tips and tricks and articles you apperceive are chancy and break able - article you'll do a lot of as a mum and a dad. Because babies do sleep.
You’ve got this.
Find advice on safe sleeping here.
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