The fact that she asked the doctor if the incident could be due to her sleeping on her stomach shows she has at least some basic awareness that she's not supposed to do that, and the possible consequences. Like another poster said, she just thought it couldn't happen to her baby, maybe because she thought cosleeping would alert her to wake up if anything was wrong. Obviously letting her sleep like that for naps when she isn't watching or napping with her doesn't provide that same protection.lizpuff2006 wrote:I just wonder if Jess is a bit jaded. She could have thought, well I had 4 kids who slept in my bed on their stomachs and nothing bad happened so it is ok... Hopefully now she knows it is not. If she were to come out with a safe sleep video or a video informing others of SIDS I would have a lot more respect for her. Chances are though she is going to go back to business as usual
I would have sympathy for Jess if this was her first child and she was a teen who had never used the internet or read a book on motherhood. Someone who lived under a rock basically. But no, she has been a mother for 7 years now. She should know what she can and cannot do. She claims to read up on safety all the time....ERF, EBF all those crappy abbreviations...but just like everything else in her life she cherry picks what she wants to do and what she doesn't want to do. I just wish it wouldn't compromise her children's safety
I agree that even if Jess doesn't admit her own culpability (or at least that she was making risky choices for her own benefit), she probably feels incredibly guilty. I think it would probably be more helpful though to admit to that guilty feeling and use it as motivation to educate herself and her viewers, rather than push it down and console herself that it was a freak accident they couldn't prevent. Because even if she tells us and herself that there was nothing she could do, the fact that she had enough knowledge of the risks of placing a newborn on their stomach to ask if that could be the cause, shows that she knew better but decided those recommendations didn't apply to her. She could literally save another babies life and prevent more parents from living this nightmare if she used her platform to talk about safe cosleeping, and when cosleeping isn't right for your family (like when your "crazy advanced" newborn rolls over right out of the womb)
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