[Jacklynn]

While I see both sides to the issue, I find it hard to blame the mother (entirely) for the death. Yes she should have been more careful and not allowed two newborns to be left alone on her bed, and I'm sure she will be haunted by that the rest of her life.

Maybe she was laying in her bed playing with the two babies when they both fell asleep, maybe she saw it as her FIRST opportunity to go make dinner for her family since the babies were born because with two of them odds are one of them was typically up during dinner making time. Maybe she didn't want to move them because she knew they would wake up. Maybe she piled tons of pillows around them to ensure they would be fine, not thinking that the dog would jump up there on the bed and bring one to her.

Who knows what was going through her mind? Sure, she may have known the dangers and just did it anyways simply because she wanted to get away, in which case the child ended up paying the price.

I just like to give the opposite view sometimes. Not to stir the pot at all, but to give a different view.

A few years ago a lady in our town dropped her cell phone in her car and reached to grab it, in the split second that she looked down to grab it, she crashed killing a man in a truck. How horrible of that woman!! That was the first thought by the town. But soon in the papers the family of the guy who was killed made a statement that she herself had glanced down before to find her cell phone or looked at her car radio to change the channel, just when she did it she got lucky and didn't crash. But that it could have easily had happened to her. She could have easily blamed the lady and sued and she probably would have won. But instead she knew that wouldn't bring him back and instead forgave her saying it could have been her because she had done the same thing before. She used the opportunity to make people aware of what can happen in an instant while driving. People tend to assume bad things won't happen, I mean how many of you have looked down at your radio while driving? I have... I'm just lucky that nothing has ever happened in that split second it takes to change the channel.

The point was that we all make split second decisions that could change our lives, it just doesn't typically end in such a horrible event. I just hope something good comes of the situation and maybe now the mother will be a big advocate for teaching mothers the importance of not leaving their baby alone for even a second.

Of course, I do think the mother should have been more careful and I'm sure she wishes she hadn't left them in there, but she did and it happened, so now all that can be done is letting other mothers know that every second does count and that especially when they are that age, anything could happen in even just a second.

Again not trying to stir the pot or cause any arguments at all, but instead just kinda as a reminder that we should all take life a little more slowly and to know that a split second decision could change our lives so to be extra careful.