Anne Diamond opens up about her baby boy's cot death in emotional YouTube video

Presenter Anne Diamond recollects the second she discovered her child boy had died in his cot in an emotional video.

The 62-year-old, whose son Sebastian suffered sudden toddler demise syndrome aged four-and-a-half months in 1991, describes screaming when she discovered her little boy 'was a stiff, chilly statue of a kid' within the clip uploaded to Youtube, 25 years on from the tragedy.

Inside seconds of the video beginning Anne's voice cracks, a glimpse of the sorrow she nonetheless carries along with her years after dwelling by 'each mom's worst nightmare'.

Anne Diamond, pictured above, has posted a video to YouTube to mark the 25th anniversary of her shedding her son to sudden toddler demise syndrome (SIDS)

Anne says of coming into Sebastian's room that morning: 'My little boy was a stiff chilly statue of a kid as a substitute of the nice and cozy, cuddly, milky child that I would put to mattress the night time earlier than.

'And I simply screamed. I used to be simply rocking my very, little or no chilly child and it was really painful to carry him as a result of he was simply so chilly.' 

It was Anne's eldest son, Oliver's, fourth birthday that day, July 12th. 

She remembers at one level, he rotated quietly and requested: 'Can I open any of my presents now?' 

Within the video, she talks in regards to the second she went upstairs to verify on her son Sebastian (pictured) and what occurred when she realised he had died within the night time

The TV presenter's devastating loss in 1991 grew to become the main target of a nationwide marketing campaign, known as Again to Sleep, to assist stop cot deaths like Sebastian's - a marketing campaign that consultants have credited with saving 1000's of lives.  

She talks within the video about how New Zealand had the very best cot demise charge on the planet time, and that no person knew why.

She says they later discovered was that it was occurring to infants who had been mendacity on their tummies, and that they'd been campaigning in opposition to cot demise and succeeding in saving lives in New Zealand for six months earlier than Sebastian's demise. 

After her younger son's demise, Anne started campaigning and her dedication to the trigger is claimed to have saved plenty of different kids's lives

An image above reveals Sebastian's father Mike Hollingsworth feeding him

She additionally says, describing it as 'one of many biggest well being scandals ever', that Britain was conscious of the life-saving recommendation having an influence in New Zealand.

However, she says: 'Britain agreed to be a management.

'We knowingly did nothing in order that they might evaluate their information with ours.' 

At across the time of Sebastian's demise, Britain was shedding 2,500 infants to cot demise each single yr which equates to five or 6 each single day, Anne says.

Anne Diamond, pictured above from 2014, says there's a easy means of stopping lots of SIDS instances: by ensuring the child is put to sleep on its again moderately than its entrance

She says: 'At instances, I am robust sufficient to be philosophical and shrug my shoulders and inform myself to not look again with revenge or bitterness. At different instances I miss Sebastian a lot I wish to throttle any signal of the complacency which allowed him to die'

She nonetheless fronts the Again to Sleep marketing campaign and works to lift consciousness amongst dad and mom about how you can place their infants after they put them down at night time.   

The video ends along with her studying from her guide A Reward from Sebastian, saying: 'At instances, I am robust sufficient to be philosophical and shrug my shoulders and inform myself to not look again with revenge or bitterness.

'At different instances I miss Sebastian a lot I wish to throttle any signal of the complacency which allowed him to die.'

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