Dec 09
10
Baby Suffocates Breast Feeding
This is probably the most unfortunate story I’ve ever heard related to breast feeding, although I doubt this is the fist time this has happened. A mother riding a plane on a long trip apparently was nursing a 4 week old baby on her breast when she fell asleep. Apparently when she woke up, the infant had suffocated and was not responding. Although efforts were made to resuscitate the small infant, they were unsuccessful, and an attempt to administer emergency measures on the child after turning the plane around were also unsuccessful.
It was reported that a doctor was on board and tried to revive the baby with no luck. In this unfortunate incident, my heart definitely goes out to the mother who must be devastated at her loss and inevitably what she probably feels is partly her role in the infant’s death. An autopsy report is pending, and they will investigate whether the child perhaps had any pre existing health conditions that may have contributed to it’s death.
It’s hard to imagine how a baby can be suffocated by a breast, so it does make me wonder whether the child did have some sort of other unknown health issue that contributed as a factor in it’s unfortunate death. All I can think of is the poor family (the woman is of Egyptian descent) who is probably devastated right now and wondering why this has happened to them. I wonder if they will actually report on what the findings in the autopsy are or not, seeing as though stories like this seem to disappear from the news fairly quickly, while things like Tiger Wood’s strange car accident story will linger for weeks.
