Baby S Tragic Death Is A Wake Up Call To Parents Who Use Medicine To Help Kids Sleep

Haddix James Mulkey died a completely avoidable death and now his mom, Katie, is sharing their nightmarish experience as a warning for other parents. This story is horrifying on multiple levels. When you read something like this, your first thought is that the babysitter must’ve been a teenager who just wanted to get back to social media or watching TV. But this was no high school kid. The sitter was actually a 43-year-old woman. Lori Conley was arrested last week and charged with child endangerment and murder. At the time of the child’s death she reportedly told police that the boy had been fussy and she simply wanted him to sleep. But two adult tablets proved fatal for the tiny tot. More from The Stir: Woman Pours Vodka into Little Boy’s Face for Splashing in a Pool #WTF Sadly, Conley isn’t the first person to consider using medication to induce sleep in a child. Many times you’ll hear parents admit to giving their son or daughter an over-the-counter drug to help them sleep on a flight or long car ride. You’d hope that if they were doing something like that, they’d at least use the right dosage and the children’s version. Still, drugging a child for a parent’s convenience is never, ever a good idea, no matter how tempting it might be. Hopefully, parents who read this will abandon the practice completely.
Losing a child is any parent’s worst nightmare. As the family wrote in the little boy’s heartbreaking obituary: Just devastating. But we applaud this mom for being willing to open up in the hopes of saving other kids from the same fate.
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title: “Baby S Tragic Death Is A Wake Up Call To Parents Who Use Medicine To Help Kids Sleep” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-23” author: “Marcus Hoffpauir”

Haddix James Mulkey died a completely avoidable death and now his mom, Katie, is sharing their nightmarish experience as a warning for other parents. This story is horrifying on multiple levels. When you read something like this, your first thought is that the babysitter must’ve been a teenager who just wanted to get back to social media or watching TV. But this was no high school kid. The sitter was actually a 43-year-old woman. Lori Conley was arrested last week and charged with child endangerment and murder. At the time of the child’s death she reportedly told police that the boy had been fussy and she simply wanted him to sleep. But two adult tablets proved fatal for the tiny tot. More from The Stir: Woman Pours Vodka into Little Boy’s Face for Splashing in a Pool #WTF Sadly, Conley isn’t the first person to consider using medication to induce sleep in a child. Many times you’ll hear parents admit to giving their son or daughter an over-the-counter drug to help them sleep on a flight or long car ride. You’d hope that if they were doing something like that, they’d at least use the right dosage and the children’s version. Still, drugging a child for a parent’s convenience is never, ever a good idea, no matter how tempting it might be. Hopefully, parents who read this will abandon the practice completely.
Losing a child is any parent’s worst nightmare. As the family wrote in the little boy’s heartbreaking obituary: Just devastating. But we applaud this mom for being willing to open up in the hopes of saving other kids from the same fate.
Image via iStock.com/ilterriorm

title: “Baby S Tragic Death Is A Wake Up Call To Parents Who Use Medicine To Help Kids Sleep” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-15” author: “Mamie Smith”

Haddix James Mulkey died a completely avoidable death and now his mom, Katie, is sharing their nightmarish experience as a warning for other parents. This story is horrifying on multiple levels. When you read something like this, your first thought is that the babysitter must’ve been a teenager who just wanted to get back to social media or watching TV. But this was no high school kid. The sitter was actually a 43-year-old woman. Lori Conley was arrested last week and charged with child endangerment and murder. At the time of the child’s death she reportedly told police that the boy had been fussy and she simply wanted him to sleep. But two adult tablets proved fatal for the tiny tot. More from The Stir: Woman Pours Vodka into Little Boy’s Face for Splashing in a Pool #WTF Sadly, Conley isn’t the first person to consider using medication to induce sleep in a child. Many times you’ll hear parents admit to giving their son or daughter an over-the-counter drug to help them sleep on a flight or long car ride. You’d hope that if they were doing something like that, they’d at least use the right dosage and the children’s version. Still, drugging a child for a parent’s convenience is never, ever a good idea, no matter how tempting it might be. Hopefully, parents who read this will abandon the practice completely.
Losing a child is any parent’s worst nightmare. As the family wrote in the little boy’s heartbreaking obituary: Just devastating. But we applaud this mom for being willing to open up in the hopes of saving other kids from the same fate.
Image via iStock.com/ilterriorm

title: “Baby S Tragic Death Is A Wake Up Call To Parents Who Use Medicine To Help Kids Sleep” ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-28” author: “Gertrude Dugan”

Haddix James Mulkey died a completely avoidable death and now his mom, Katie, is sharing their nightmarish experience as a warning for other parents. This story is horrifying on multiple levels. When you read something like this, your first thought is that the babysitter must’ve been a teenager who just wanted to get back to social media or watching TV. But this was no high school kid. The sitter was actually a 43-year-old woman. Lori Conley was arrested last week and charged with child endangerment and murder. At the time of the child’s death she reportedly told police that the boy had been fussy and she simply wanted him to sleep. But two adult tablets proved fatal for the tiny tot. More from The Stir: Woman Pours Vodka into Little Boy’s Face for Splashing in a Pool #WTF Sadly, Conley isn’t the first person to consider using medication to induce sleep in a child. Many times you’ll hear parents admit to giving their son or daughter an over-the-counter drug to help them sleep on a flight or long car ride. You’d hope that if they were doing something like that, they’d at least use the right dosage and the children’s version. Still, drugging a child for a parent’s convenience is never, ever a good idea, no matter how tempting it might be. Hopefully, parents who read this will abandon the practice completely.
Losing a child is any parent’s worst nightmare. As the family wrote in the little boy’s heartbreaking obituary: Just devastating. But we applaud this mom for being willing to open up in the hopes of saving other kids from the same fate.
Image via iStock.com/ilterriorm