A heartbroken mum has shared how her “perfect” baby died suddenly in his sleep at just eight weeks old.
Scarlet Curry found Reuben unresponsive in his Moses basket in the early hours of the morning.
The 23-year-old said his death was later attributed to SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), also known as cot death, following a post-mortem and inquest.
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Scarlet described the moment she found Reuben as “the most traumatic of my life”.
“The day before his passing I’d taken him for his vaccinations and he didn’t like them very much – but that’s normal for a baby,” Scarlet told Need To Know.
“I put him to bed at around 11pm.
“He’d always wake me up for his bottle and I was always alert the moment he cried.
“I woke up at 4:50am, I’ll never forget it, I looked at the time and realised he’d missed his bottle.
“It was like my body already knew, because I shot up.
“When I glanced at him, he was limp. It was the most traumatic moment of my life.
“I started performing CPR and an ambulance came and rushed him to hospital.”
Doctors performed CPR on Reuben for almost an hour.
Scarlet, from Liverpool, recalled: “Then the words came that they could try once more and if not, he was gone.
“I was just in complete shock.
“My happy, healthy baby with his future ahead of him, just gone.
“I just couldn’t understand.
“I held him in my arms for nearly two and a half hours before I was asked to walk him down to the mortuary down the hospital corridors.
“It just didn’t feel real, I felt like it was a nightmare and I was going to wake up.
“I didn’t want to accept it was true and I went into straight denial.”
Although SIDS was suspected early on, Scarlet had to wait months for confirmation.
Scarlet later donated Reuben’s brain for research.
She said: “I didn’t actually get his death certificate until September last year due to an inquest, where they just couldn’t find anything.
“There wasn’t a reason or an answer.
“I donated his brain because I needed my son to have some sort of future and if it meant helping families to not feel how I felt, I just had to.
“Finding out it was SIDS and there was no reason left me at a greater loss, because in my head my baby was just taken and there was no explanation.”
Reuben was born on 17 December 2023 and he passed away on 17 February 2024.
The tot survived serious complications at birth and was thriving at home.
Scarlet added: “When we brought him home, I thought the worst was over.
“He was reaching all of his milestones and he was truly just a joy.
“He touched so many hearts in such a short time and that just shows what energy he had.
“Reuben was my first child and only child.
“I found out at around three weeks that I was pregnant with him and I’d never felt so complete.
“He just made sense. I was so happy and thinking of the future.
“He made me more positive, he grew a love in me I hadn’t felt for years.
“Honestly, he was a truly amazing baby.”
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This same tragic story is in The Sun today. It states she took him for his vaccines the day before he died in the night yet his passing is ‘SIDS’. Look at the SIDS figures during Covid lock down, when babies were not having their vaccines due to lock down restrictions. There were almost none. This poor mum needs to claim from the government’s vaccine damages fund. Even if it’s to use the money for charity. Bless this poor baby. Scarlet was only doing what she was told by medical professionals was best. ❤️