Terrified mother shares heartbreaking warning after baby Callie split her head open – she turned around for a split second

FOR new moms, keeping your baby safe is a top priority: making sure he sleeps on his back in a crib, properly fitting him in a car seat and making sure he doesn’t choke while feeding.

After a terrifying ordeal that caused her daughter to fracture her skull, Ashley Conley is now warning others moms of another danger that must be paid attention to: that involved in a baby seat.

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Ashley had to save her daughter Callie Conley’s life CPR when he fractured his skull after falling off the kitchen counter.

The 30-year-old woman turned her back on him for a split second.

Ashley had placed Callie, who was nine months old, in a baby seat at the kitchen island while she made lunch and her husband Kyle Conley unpacked their groceries.

He turned his back for a split second to boil some pasta when he heard a thud.

The housewife turned around and discovered that her husband was running and that her daughter was no longer up on the counter, but face up on the wooden floor, still in the seat.

Callie had kicked herself off the counter.

The mother of three rushed to pick up her daughter, but as she hugged her, Callie began to have a fit, rolling her eyes and foaming at the mouth.

Things got even worse when Callie stopped breathing after the seizure and Ashley had to perform CPR on her own baby.

Luckily, while Ashley picked up Callie, Kyle, 31, called emergency services and an ambulance arrived at their house within two minutes.

The paramedics took over CPR, and once Callie started breathing again, Ashley went with her to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in OhioUnited States, where a scan revealed that he had fractured his skull.

Ashley took tiktok on January 3, six months after the accident in June last year, to raise awareness, and his video has been viewed more than three million times.

Now she bravely shares her story as a warning to others, as she admits she regularly placed baby chairs on the counter and “didn’t think anything of it.”

Ashley, from Batavia, Ohio, US, said: “It’s every parent’s worst nightmare, it was horrible.

“It was horrible. When the seizure started, I had never seen one before. His eyes rolled back in his head and he was seizing and starting to foam at the mouth.

“When I first saw that I thought, oh my God, I had caused him horrible brain damage and then when he stopped breathing I thought he was dying. “I thought he was about to die in our flat.

“I made him breathe once while I gave him CPR and then they (the paramedics) positioned his head so his airway was more open. “I think they gave him a few breaths and then he was breathing normally.

“They took towels and stabilized her neck because they weren’t sure if it was broken, so they didn’t let me touch her after they got there.

“It was very hard not being able to hug her. It was the worst day of my life.

“I felt very ashamed and ashamed that I had put it there and made it fall. I had never actually shared that with anyone and I never intended to because I didn’t want the trial.

“But I have seen it so commonly in tiktok where people have their children on counters like me, I really didn’t know the dangers involved. I think many people don’t know the danger that this entails. I wanted to inform people.

“I wanted to share it and I hope people see it and make some changes.

“This is our third child, we did it with both of our children, nothing bad ever happened so we just didn’t think it was a possibility.

“We just didn’t think about it. We had done it often and never thought about it. I walked away, not even a foot away from her, to put pasta in boiling water and I heard a thud and my husband was running towards the island “

She was just begging God to save her.

Ashley Conley

After doctors got her breathing, Callie was knocked unconscious during the ambulance ride.

Ashley said: “She was just begging God to save her. She was hysterical in the ambulance. They told me they’ve seen this before and it can happen in a number of different ways.”

“They had mentioned that sometimes there can be coma, sometimes there can be damage to the brain and other times it can be fine.

“When they mentioned the brain damage, I was paralyzed. I couldn’t handle the emotions and I had my fingers in my head when they dropped me off and I was just crying.

“When I arrived I was greeted by a chaplain and of course I thought, oh my God, they’re not telling me she’s going to die.

“She was extremely confused and screaming. I was right on top of her and she didn’t recognize me. She was looking past me, a little glazed over. Definitely confused, I was told that’s normal after a grand mal attack.”

At the hospital, Callie was put in a brace in case she had broken her neck and was taken for a CT scan to look for a brain hemorrhage.

Fortunately, the scan showed Callie had no bleeding on her brain, but she had suffered a fracture above her ear to her left parietal bone, something doctors told Ashley would heal on its own.

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The onset of ‘terrifying’ seizures

Since the accident, Ashley said Callie, now 15 months old, has had more seizures and doctors are still investigating what could be causing them.

Ashley said: “About four months later, on November 20, we were playing and all of a sudden she couldn’t sit up anymore, she just fell to the floor and I thought she was trying to be funny or something.” that.

“My husband saw her and said something looked strange in her eyes and he picked her up and when he picked her up she was completely limp in his arms.

“His eyes rolled back when he handed her to me and he began to have another grand mal seizure.

“It was terrifying and seemingly came out of nowhere. We called the ambulance again. She didn’t stop breathing the second time, but it lasted about four and a half minutes.

“They said hopefully it was a febrile seizure, we’ll send her home with rescue medication in case she has any more that last that long.

“About two weeks later he had an absent seizure. He’s had three of those.

“They (the doctors) say they are not related to the fall. I think they are simply because she has never had a seizure before.

“If you continue to have them, we will do genetic testing and a longer EEG to check if there is a problem.” epilepsy that may have been lost.

“She’s great. Her development is completely fine. They say traumatic brain injuries can cause some developmental problems. She hasn’t had any.

“She speaks very well, she’s on track for everything. Aside from the seizures after the fall, she’s back to her normal self and hasn’t changed at all since then.”

Don’t think it can’t happen to you.

Ashley Conley

Ashley now hopes to discourage other parents from placing high baby seats.

Ashley said: “Don’t think this can’t happen to you. I never thought something like this would happen in my life. I’m a stay-at-home mom, I care deeply about my kids and it only takes a second.” .

“Many people have shared with me their stories of not being able to bring their baby home from the hospital like I did. They’re just not worth having. next to you to put their lives at risk.”

Manufacturers of similar baby seats warn that the child should always be kept in sight while in the seat and never left unattended.

Most are listed as “floor seats” and state that they should never be used on an elevated surface.