Once emergency responders arrived, it only took them two minutes to realize that little Connie Rose was dead. “I just ran back into the bedroom and grabbed her and cuddled her. They let me cosy her for a good half an hour and I kept hugging her, still hoping she would open her eyes, or grab me or something,” Walsh said. While the 18-month-old didn’t hit her head on the wall, one of her teddy bears fell on top of her and smothered her while she slept. “… [A]ll I think about now is what if I just left it empty, she would still be here maybe with just a small bump on her head,” the mom wrote, sharing her heartbreaking regret. Later in the post, she referred to her decision as “my biggest regret in life.” “Please move everything off your kids’ bed and away from the sides,” the devastated mom pleaded. She even suggested that kids shouldn’t have anything on their beds at night but a blanket, “even a pillow isn’t needed.” Walsh told BBC that her one-woman campaign to raise awareness of this issue has been going really well. “When I see all these messages that people are moving things from kids’ beds, it really means something to me and I am so thankful for them reading my messages,” she said.
