A traumatised mother has warned others online about a baby bath seat after she pulled her baby girl from it “blue and not breathing”.
Suzie Dybell used Facebook to warn the public after her daughter, Felicity, was trapped in a Safety 1st swivel bath seat when it tipped over.
“I was right there by the bath. A couple of the suction pads were still stuck to the bath and it was hard to free her. The few seconds it took felt like a lifetime,” wrote Dybell on August 24.
“She was blue and not breathing. I called 999 and managed to get her to cough up the water she had swallowed and she started breathing again.”
The post, which has been shared almost 170,000 times in three days, has made it all the way to the owner of the brand.
A spokeswoman from Dorel UK – who owns Safety 1st – told The Mirror “[the company] has been made aware of an incident which recently occurred with one of its products, a swivel bath seat.”
“The swivel bath seat conforms to relevant European safety standards and is designed as a bath aid, giving baby extra support to sit in the bathtub. It is however, not a substitute for parental supervision.”
Here is Dybell’s entire Facebook post:
Yesterday evening Felicity (7 months) was in the bath in this seat when it tipped over and trapped her face down in the water. I was right there by the bath. A couple of the suction pads were still stuck to the bath and it was hard to free her. The few seconds it took felt like a lifetime.
She was blue and not breathing. I called 999 and managed to get her to cough up the water she had swallowed and she started breathing again.
The paramedics checked her over and by that point she was a lot less blue and was smiling at them. But it could have been so much worse. It takes as little as 10 seconds for a baby to drown. Please please please please do not buy these seats. If you have one then bin it. It’s not worth the risk.
This particular seat is a ‘Safety 1st swivel bath seat’ but there are other similar ones on the market.
This seat was being properly used. The water level was at the level marked on the seat and I had checked it was suckered down before I put her in it.
Since this happened I’ve done some research and 2/3 bath deaths in under 2s are attributed to bath seats.
I have set this post to ‘public’. Please share it.
You can share the post from here.
