Lifestyle influencer Lindsay Dewey, who documents her family life on social media, recently revealed that her 22-month-old son Reed passed away after a tragic accident at home, and now she's sharing the details of that incident to help others.
In a series of posts to her Instagram story, Dewey explained the harrowing details of how her son was killed when a large, leaning mirror in their home fell on top of him.
“To make a long story short, apparently Reed had one of his suction cup bowls and stuck it on the mirror and was pulling it 'back and forth' to pry it off (we're assuming) and he pulled the mirror down on himself,” she wrote on an Instagram Story highlight titled “awareness” on her profile. “I never even heard him playing by/ with the mirror. Until I heard it fall and then within five seconds, I lifted it off of him.”
Dewey explained that the mirror was “heavy duty” and leaned against the wall. She thought there was “no way” her kids were strong enough to move it or pull it down, so they never felt the “urgency to anchor it” to the wall.
“The second I lifted it up I looked at him to see if he was ok and he was laying there eyes open but not crying and I felt relieved thinking he must’ve been okay just in shock or something ...but no... he was not the Reed I knew,” Dewey said. “Based on how he was acting, I immediately knew something was VERY wrong and that it was serious but never did we expect it to be so serious that he wouldn't survive it. The mirror hit his head in the most precise way and fractured his skull - obviously causing a severe [traumatic brain injury].”
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Dewey said that she is still "in complete shock" at her son's death but wanted to share the details to help spread awareness and remind others to remember to anchor their objects to the walls.
“I replay it in my mind too often,” she said. “We both are still in complete shock that this is what took our baby from us. We're only sharing this because we don't want this happening to anybody. A few close people we've told literally started naming off items in their house that weren't anchored, and it hit home for them because they literally could've been in our situation.”
Dewey said it would have been much easier to keep the details private to protect themselves from criticism, but she wanted to share it publicly to potentially save another child from a similar fate.
“You have no clue how easy it would be to keep this to ourselves and protect our hearts from the potential backlash especially from strangers,” she admitted. “But I truly couldn't keep it from other parents anymore. But truly I shared this only for awareness purposes. If I'm being honest, after discussing it a week ago, we decided that we were not going to share it. But we had a change of heart and I'm glad. This could potentially save another child and that makes all the backlash worth it.”
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