James Alderman was just seven weeks old when he died in a tragic accident involving a commonly-used baby carrier - leaving his parents and brother, three, heartbroken.
A heartbroken father whose newborn baby boy accidentally suffocated to death in a breastfeeding sling has told of his anguish - and issued a warning to other parents.
Tragically, Jimmy died three days later on October 11, 2023, aged just seven weeks -with a coroner this week warning that 'very little' safety information is available to parents about the risks of baby slings. On the day of the tragedy, George was packing the car and getting his oldest son, Arthur, ready, while wife Ellie was looking after Jimmy.'Everything was fine one moment and then the next it was the worst thing that could ever happen,' George said.
'We had come to the point where we realised there was nothing that could be done,' George said. 'We were sitting there hoping for a miracle. But there was no sign of that. It didn’t seem fair on Jimmy that he was lying there with all these tubes in him.' Ms Brown has called for industry standards promoting the safe use of slings and warnings about their risks because there is a danger that young babies could suffocate.
He said manufacturers provided limited advice on how to keep the baby safe in the carriers - and claimed there was very little help offered to new parents from the NHS. Babywearing is a popular phenomenon, worth almost a billion pounds globally, where a child is strapped into a harness or wrapped in a sling so they can be carried by a parent hands-free.
The baby, who was six weeks and six days old when the incident happened on October 8, was feeling well other than having a slight cold. A UK consortium of sling retailers and manufacturers have shared an acronym, TICKS, to establish safe positioning for babies in slings. She said the only 'tips' available are on the National Childbirth Trust website, 'but these are in fact unhelpful'.
NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care, the Office for Product Safety and Standards and the British Standards Institution are required to respond to Ms Brown’s report by February 21 2025.
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