Mum's urgent warning to parents after her baby son gets trapped in bath seat

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Ciara Harvey said the 15 minute ordeal "felt like forever" as firefighters cut her six-month-old Reo free. The mum is now urging other parents to choose their seats carefully

A mum called 999 after her six-month-old son began “hyperventilating” as she desperately tried to free him from a bath seat bought from Smyths Toys.

Ciara Harvey, 20, said firefighters had to cut through the Bebeconfort Swivel Baby Bath Seat to free her son Reo after his lower body slipped through one of the openings.

The mum-of-one, from Newarthill, Scotland, said she had used the seat almost every night for a couple of months without any problems. She had run Reo a bath after dinner on October 26 before realising with alarm that he had become lodged in the seat.

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Ciara attempted to lift Reo and the seat out of the bath and tried to use Vaseline to ease him free. She said the seat was digging into him at this point.

She said: "He was lodged down one side and I thought he was just at an awkward angle and I’d be able to get him out. I realised he was stuck. I tried to put Vaseline around where he was lodged but I still couldn’t get him out. I was really panicked. I didn’t know what to do with myself.

"He was crying at this point and was getting uncomfortable and it was digging into him. Reo was really distressed. I had never seen him as traumatised as what he was.

Ciara said firefighters cut through the seat so they could lift Reo out at an angle. She said: "It was a relief to get him out. Although it was only 15 minutes, it felt like forever."

Ciara said Reo had not been medically examined but had red marks on his legs and back and a bruise. A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson said: “At 7.48pm on Monday, 26 October Operations Control mobilised one appliance to a property [in], Newarthill where the crew released a baby trapped in a bath seat. There were no reported injuries.”

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