The Day My World Nearly Ended

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The Day My World Nearly Ended We had just moved into are new apartment and we were settling down for the night, it had been a long day. I had bathed my eight-day-old son Rowan-Liam, fed him his bottle, and put him in his bed. I then returned to the living room where my boyfriend Aaron sat waiting for me. Rowan-Liam was sleeping, so we were going to watch a movie. We had just settled down to watch the movie when I heard the baby coughing. I got up to check on him and he had already stopped coughing, but I went to check on him anyways. When I got to his bed, I found that he had stopped breathing. I quickly grabbed the baby out of his bed, I was screaming in panic. My neighbor Shawn, who lived upstairs, heard all the commotion, and came down to see what was going on. Aaron was already on the phone with 911, and I had frozen in fear. In an attempt to revive the baby, Shawn started CPR as we waited for help to arrive. Within 3 minutes, the first responder was on the scene, it was Boardman police officer Jeff Lytle. Officer Lytle was not dispatched to the scene, but he had heard the call over the radio and thought that he could help. As soon as Officer Lytle arrived, he took over the CPR on the baby, who was clinically dead, and continued until the EMT arrived. When the EMT finally arrived close to 10 agonizing minutes later, Rowan-Liam was breathing again. They transported him to the hospital, where he spent the next week undergoing tests in an attempt to find out what had happened. During his stay at the hospital, they determined that Rowan-Liam had Sleep Apnea, and that is what had caused him to stop breathing. The doctors told us that Sleep Apnea is one of the leading causes of S.I.D.S., or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. They told us we were extremely lucky to have caught it as fast as we did, most parents do not. He left the

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