A 19-year-old mother fed her 11-day-old baby and thought he fell asleep but only realised two hours later that the infant had choked and died.
Peng Sie Sying said she fed Chong Wei Kent baby formula as he vomited out the breast milk given to him earlier.
“I had no choice but to give him formula milk and after feeding him at 7.30am, I thought that he had slept and put him in his cot,” said the devastated mother, who was holding on to her 16-year-old husband at the mortuary of Hospital Sultanah Aminah.
Her husband declined to be identified.
Peng said when she checked on the baby at 9am, she realised he was not breathing.
“His hands and feet were cold and we quickly rushed him to the Tampoi clinic.
“On the way there, I tried my best to revive him, even performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and milk came out from his nose,” she said. However, the doctors at the clinic confirmed that the infant had died.
Peng stated that her baby was born healthy and only had jaundice.
“After several days, the jaundice disappeared and we brought him home,” she said.
Johor Baru North OCPD Asst Comm Mohd Khamsani Abdul Rahman confirmed the incident and the case had been classified as sudden death.
“We found no trace of physical abuse and the post-mortem revealed that the baby choked to death,” he said.
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