The article doesn’t state if it was warm weather and the baby only had a nappy on. The ECG patches are hard enough to get off. All patches leave sticky goo on your skin. I find you have to wash it off. Pain patches are not designed to come off easily even when the pain relief is down to zero.

These things are sticky, sticky, sticky — they even leave a residue when you peel them off. They did to my husband, anyway. I just can’t fathom how this happened?

Scary! Always a great reminder to be cautious around our kids.

Whilst it is terribly sad, the mother should not have been co-sleeping whilst on fentanyl patches or similar medications. I agree with another mum’s comments about reminding people of the dangers of co-sleeping and even the tiniest details that people need to consider before doing it. There will certainly be a bit of an inquiry into the circumstances I imagine.

My grandma just got me to stick one of these patches to her. It’s quite like a really sticky plaster. Like once it’s on it’s not going anywhere and my gran keeps hers on for a week so they don’t just freely move around and stick elsewhere. It’s also hard to get them out of the packaging. So whilst I feel sorry for the families loss I happen to wonder how it actually occurred.

How awful for that poor baby! Their little life taken far too soon and unnecessarily

Heartbreaking story. I feel so very sad for the family

I hope there is a thourough investigation. I’m not convinced it was so much of an accident

I agree it sounds suss with pathologist saying babies levels were as high as a deadly level for adult. I have medical knowledge of these patches and the dose is a set amount per patch and release that amount over 3 days. Mum should definitely not have been co-sleeping when using the patch. Very suss how it came stuck to bubs stomach under pj’s as well even if it had fallen off the mum, very hard for the sticky side to end up on bubs tummy under clothing.
But none the less a horrible tragedy and reminder of how careful parents need to be if choosing to cosleep.
RIP little baby.

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  • • Amanda Holland replied
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  That is interesting, I was thinking a little of that myself

How heartbreaking for this mother – would be unbearable – every sympathy.

Very sad. They sound quite dangerous.

So sad and a lot of unanswered questions.

What an absolute tragedy for that mother to live with the guilt for life. So incredibly sad

Such a tragedy for the family. Something you would never think would happen. RIP little one

Poor Mum, this is a tragedy for sure.