Midwife’s warning on leaving home with younger infants – as three-week outdated dies

A midwife has issued recommendation to oldsters after the loss of life of a three-week-old baby at a music festival.

On August 19, cops have been known as to Camp Bestival, in Weston Park, after the younger baby all of the sudden turned unwell.

A Staffordshire Police spokesperson mentioned the newborn “was treated at the scene and taken to hospital in a critical condition”.

Sadly, the newborn died a short while later with “enquiries ongoing to determine the circumstances of the death”.

While not eager to touch upon this particular case, midwife Pip Davies did need to share her experience round caring for a new child.

“When babies get too hot they are at greater risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome),” she mentioned.

“So monitoring the temperature of the room they sleep in and dressing them appropriately is important.

“A room temperature of 16 to twenty levels Celsius is perfect and hats don’t should be worn inside.

“As young babies cannot regulate their temperature it is best to feel the back of their neck.

“If they really feel sweaty then take away a layer of clothes as they’re too sizzling.”

Midwife Pip also has advice for when you are going on a long car journey with a newborn.

She said: “When travelling in a automobile with a new child child, it is strongly recommended to not have them in a automobile seat for greater than two hours at a time.”

It’s crucial to “take common breaks the place you’re taking them out of the automobile seat,” she added.

“If they alter place or turn into slumped within the automobile seat you need to readjust their place immediately.”

Pip, who has had over a decade of experience in the field, shared another important tip for parents or carers.

She said: “Whilst it’s OK for a child to go to sleep in a automobile seat, when arriving at your vacation spot you need to take your child out of the automobile seat and onto a agency, flat floor to sleep.”

As for the safest place for babies (up to six months old) to sleep, Pip said this should be in a “cot or Moses basket on a agency, flat mattress in the identical room as their father or mother or carer”.

Pip is an experienced, practicing midwifery sister, founder of the Midwife Pip Podcast, a co-author of published research and a mum.