AS Christmas approaches you may be considering dressing your baby in something festive so they can get involved in the fun.
Perhaps an elf onesie, or mini Santa suit, or you can keep things simple and style them in a reindeer beanie embellished with soft sparkly horns
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But Sarah, a paediatric nurse, has urged parents to avoid putting a headband on a baby, after witnessing a near-death incident.
“I was shopping at the supermarket a little while ago when I saw a mum shopping with her young bub,” she explained in an Instagram post.
“All I could see was bub’s legs and body, the hood of the pram was covering her face.”
On second glance, Sarah noticed the baby was kicking her legs furiously, which she thought was “a little strange.”
After ducking down a bit to look at her face, Sarah rushed to mum.
“What I saw sent a shock of adrenaline through me,” she said.
Sarah flipped back the hood of the pram to reveal that the headband baby was wearing had slipped down over her nose and mouth, and she was turning a dusky purple colour.
“Mum and I seemed to simultaneously reach down and pulled the head band off her nose and mouth, and bub immediately let out a huge cry,” she said.
“It’s a bit of a blur, but I remember mum being stunned about what was happening.
“The mum picked up her baby who continued to cry for a bit then settled down, perfectly fine after the ordeal..
“But mum wasn’t so fine,” she said.
The mum was left crying, while explaining she knew not to let bub sleep with the headband on, but didn’t realise there would be any danger from having the headband on whilst awake.
Sarah is now urging parents to, if possible, avoid dressing babies in headbands.
”Just head movement or rubbing can move a headband down over the face,” she explained.
“They are fine for a photo or while being held by someone, but please don’t leave a headband on a baby if they aren’t close, awake and in direct active supervision and of course when sleeping.”