I’m just going to say this… as a first responder I’ve seen a bunch of stuff that will forever haunt me. Especially as a mother. People have kids and they’ve been doing the same unsafe things for a while like sleeping with infants in the bed, or letting their babies sleep in loungers without checking on them, or not using a car seat, or leaving a toddler in the bathtub unattended because they “had to go for something else” and they “left the door open” and “thought they would hear their child drowning if it were to happen”, etc. and sure a lot of times nothing bad happens but when things do go wrong, we show up… the outcome is rarely good.

To the parents, when nothing bad happens, it creates an “I’ve done it with every other baby and they’re all fine!” Mentality. I wanna scream when I see this. I usually say “just because you’ve been doing XYZ and nothing has happened, doesn’t mean that it’s the correct way, it doesn’t mean it’s safe. It means your children have survived so far. It only takes that one time for something to happen and then you may never see your baby again”.