After discovering her 7-month-old son had died in his crib, a Washington state mother is speaking out.
Earlier this month, on July 3, mother Jordan DeRosier put her boy, Sloan, in his crib along with a blanket made by his great-grandmother and another blanket. DeRosier said the boy somehow then pulled the blanket through the crib rails and accidentally suffocated.
“I have a lot of guilt,” DeRosier told People magazine. “What could I have done better? Could I have saved him? I will never be able to shake the feeling that there was something more I could have done to prevent his death.” She added that the boy was found in the morning with purple skin and blue lips.
She wants other mothers to know about hazards posed by blankets in cribs.
“That’s really the only thing giving us comfort right now,” she told the publication. “We’ve gotten thousands of messages from parents saying that after reading about our story, they took blankets out of cribs.”
Last week, in a now-private Facebook post, DeRosier explained more of what happened to her child.
“They took the grey one he had been found with his head in,” she wrote. “He had pulled it through the crib rails somehow and gotten himself stuck in it. You never think it will happen to you. You never think it will be your baby. Please do not put your babies to bed with a blanket. Please. He was 7 months old, I thought because he was crawling, standing on his own, and climbing, that he would be fine with a blanket.”
