TV host Lee Teng scolded by wife on social media for putting their baby at risk of suffocation
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Lee Teng's wife lamented that he placed a small pillow on his son’s hand which ended up on his face, posing a risk of suffocation.
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SINGAPORE – Local TV host Lee Teng’s wife has blasted him on social media for using an unsafe method to coax their three-month-old baby to sleep.
Lee, 42, and Ms Gina Lin, 33, welcomed their son Ellison in July and announced the happy news on social media in August. She had miscarried in 2020 when she was more than six months pregnant.
On Instagram Stories on Oct 21, she disclosed that she had spent the past week caring for the boy after their confinement nanny left.
She wrote wryly that as a result, she had “successfully developed back pain, successfully lost another kilogram and successfully experienced sleep deprivation”.
She added that she was even covered in faeces after the baby suffered from constipation for three days.
“I’m not crying... but my milk supply keeps dropping,” wrote Ms Lin, who is not from the entertainment industry.
She shared CCTV footage from the baby’s room and said that Lee’s actions could have endangered their child. The Taiwan-born personality was believed to have placed a small pillow on his son’s hand to avoid startling him.
The video clip showed the pillow almost covering the baby’s face after he moved his hand, posing a risk of suffocation.
“Don’t cover the baby’s hands with either the blanket or small pillow,” she wrote in Chinese. “I don’t know how many million times I have repeated this statement to my husband. I don’t know which part he doesn’t understand? My son was gasping for breath when I walked into the room. I was so furious, I could have exploded.”
Tagging Lee in the post, she wrote: “Even you sleeping on a durian shell won’t pacify me.”
She then reiterated: “This pillow is used to cover his tummy, not to scare him. It is not used to cover his hands.”
In a subsequent post on Instagram Stories, Ms Lin said Lee did what he did after watching online videos on how to coax babies to sleep.
However, she said such methods pose risks for babies who are strong enough to move their arms. She urged new fathers not to follow online videos blindly.
