Mother Smothers Baby While Breastfeeding On Plane

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Mother Smothers Baby While Breastfeeding On Plane

December 1, 2009 by Morbid

Filed under: Crime, Smothering, Weird News, freak accident

Mother Smothers Baby While Breastfeeding On Plane

33,000-feet over the Atlantic - On November 24th, a 29-year-old mother was on a United Airlines flight to Kuwait. She was on her way to visit relatives with her 4-week-old daughter. At some point during the flight, the mother began breastfeeding the baby, and then fell asleep. When she woke up, she found that she had smothered her infant. PassengersPassengers reviews and crew were alerted to something wrong when the mother began screaming for help. A doctor on the plane tried to revive the baby but was unsuccessful. The baby was pronounced dead on arrival after the plane was landed at London’sLondon reviews Heathrow airport where the flight had been diverted. Police are still investigating but no arrests have been made and nothing points to the incident being nothing more than a tragic accident.

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Tags: Breastfeeding, infant, London, London Heathrow Airport, United Airlines

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Darsa

Oh my God how horrible :(

shelly1968

I now lots of men who would list that as a way they chose to die, how horrible for that family, Could happen to any nursing mother I suppose, how sad!

Chronic

Absolutely heart breaking :(

silvahalo

So very tragic. One reason I was so paranoid to sleep with baby as I breastfed....thes things can and do happen. I can only imagine the utter horror this mother must have felt once she realized her baby was dead and not sleeping. A very sad day for mother, child and family. My deepest sorrow over their loss.

WryBread

Shelley -- That is too funny! Yes, some men would volunteer for this death. I really wonder how a woman could not feel the baby squirming for air. But perhaps it was a very young baby without much strength.

Morbid

perhaps it was a very young baby

4-week-old daughter.

sugarglider

I really wonder how a woman could not feel the baby squirming for air. But perhaps it was a very young baby without much strength.

Yeah...airplane seats are not what anyone would think of as roomy. Especially coach.

V

I imagine she was extremely exhausted from having a newborn and the sheer stress of the flight. I hope she can forgive herself for what was obviously a sad and tragic accident.

Boughtthefarm

How tragic. Poor mother must be devestated.

malq

I don't see it.
Both my kids were on the tit for way too long. Like till they could ask for it.
In the beginning like that a mom is totally aware of the baby feeding and smothering and all that happy shit.
Meh what do I know, I am a guy. Even at 4 weeks the baby would have struggled imo,

sugarglider

Infants do smother easily. They don't have the neck muscles to lift their heads, so the amount of struggling could be quite minimal.

Yuck--that sounded awfully clinical.

captainhowdy

Infants do smother easily. They don’t have the neck muscles to lift their heads, so the amount of struggling could be quite minimal.

Yup, this is what I was going to say. If the baby is very warm, this can also put them into such a deep sleep that they are unable to rouse themselves. The combination of the baby being too warm and just in the wrong position...sigh.

What a horrible, horrible tragedy for this family. The mother must be beside herself with guilt...I hope she can eventually realize that it was an accident. :( I co-sleep and breastfeed, and I can't even imagine how I'd feel if something like this were to happen.