Well I won't be watching!  Didn't know that this was happening in the story line and saw the clip this morning.  It must be so hard for an actress who has two young children of her own to play this role.

So will be off to Tesco's shortly so I don't see it!

I am going to give it a miss too. I could do without the stress and upset of this kind of thing when i get home from work!

Whats going on in emmerdale? i havent watched it for ages just dont have the time any more.

I normally watch Emmerdale the few days I am at home when it is on, or the omnibus, but hadnt heard anything about this story line :(
I know its good to have itr in the public eye, but I watch soaps for escapism, not to end up balling over!!!
Well I will be running when it is on, so wont get to watch it anyway.
Will read on here what happens later :)
Lea :)

There will be a cot death storyline :-(    I am afraid my friends baby died almost exactly one year ago under theses circumstances and that was horrendous....I have no desire to relive it via a soap opera, however sensitively it is dealt with.

Oh my, dont think i will be watching either then, i know it happens in real life but its not the sort of thing i would want to watch.

im afraid im not tuning in either.....my friend went through that trauma on christmas day and its still abit to raw for me.

im watching pet rescue instead.

I have not watched it either as my very first granddaughter died age 10wks old of cot death and this was 22 years ago now, but, still seems like yesterday. It is a thing you never forget.

i tuned into emmerdale tonight and did not expect this storyline , it was very upsetting and i was in floods and my heart goes out to people who have gone through this in trauma

Georgina

i didnt watch it tonight either.
it would have been to upsetting.

I couldn't have watched it either :(   I watch soaps for entertainment, this would have been far too distressing :( :(  

Did watch about the last 15 minutes, didn't realise it was on for an hour and ended up crying my eyes out.  Then ended up watching a true story about a girl dying of cancer in a film tonight so all I've done for the last three and a half hours is cry.  Not really the night in that I was wanting!!!

Going to bed now feeling drained.

I watched it, found it very moving, well done to all the actors - it was all I could do not to cry, though my eyes filled up a lot, and I'm not a maternal person.....

I haven't been following it for a while, whose baby was it?

Laurel? and Ashley - the vicar and his wife.....

I know it's fictional, but I felt so sad for her....silly old me

I turned TV on without knowing about the storyline, as I don't watch it that often.  I don't have children, and I have never known anyone who lost a baby.  It upset me so much, I felt so deeply for the mother, just forgot it was fiction really.  Very distressing, I broke my heart.

Obviously it is important that they cover certain scenarios that can happen in real life but this is a very very delicate subject and the soaps always seem to do this to a couple who will make the biggest storyline i.e the saddest scenario!

It is something as a parent was always at the forefront of my mind and I can't imagine what people who have been through this awful loss will think to the storyline! :-(

ive been through
i found last nights program so very realistic and the actress and actor should be proud of themselves! showing how it affects all around as well
i never normally watch the soaps but last night had me sobbing my heart out and today i feel much better for it

I did watch and the kids watched it with me too. Laurel did a fantastic job with her acting, it was a very emotional episode. My daughter was watching saying "it's only a programme" and my son bluntly reminded me that "It is only a dolly anyway mum!"

I really didn't like this storyline. Whilst i understand it is good to have it in the public eye, i know if i was a new mother it would have scared me to death. I think most mothers are aware of cot death, but i think watching that is just going to panic them. THe acting was fantastic and i think the actress that played laurel must have been physically and mentally drained after doing those scenes, but it really isn't entertainment, which is what most people tune into emmerdale for, if i wanted to feel that depressed i would watch eastenders! I know i didn't have to watch it, but i felt like i should for some reason, could have done with a warning or something beforehand though, i wouldn't have wanted anyone who had experienced cot death personally to be watching it not knowing what was going to happen.

On GMTV yesterday morning, there was a mother who had gone through cot death herself and she had been working with them and watched the whole episode before it was aired. I don't think this is something they have taken lightly and have been working in association with the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths.

Having a seven month old baby, I was far too scared to watch it.  I'm very aware of cot death and am quite paranoid about making sure she's not too hot, hasn't got anything over her face and have a monitor with a pad under her mattress so if she should stop breathing an alarm would sound.  I think watching that would have terrified me and, although part of me wanted to watch it, I'm glad I didn't.

I didn't watch it but I think it is good to bring this to more people radar's as many cots deaths could be reduced by main factors of not smoking and bed sharing or placing a baby on it's front.

I am not sure if this was addressed in the episode but maybe some education would have been good if not.

Very sad and traumatic for any parent.

I think it is good for them to do it in many ways.  As we see from time to time some people still aren't aware of the dangers etc. so let's hope that it does help to inform people who may watch this more than they would watch a documentary style TV programme on the subject.

I woke up this morning with puffy eyes with all the crying I did last night! 

I've watched Emmerdale for years and have felt that recent storylines have ranged from the bizarre to the ridiculous.  But I thought last night's episode was superbly acted and very believable.  Obviously very difficult for anyone who has been through a similar tragedy to watch but, as a stand-alone episode it was done brilliantly.

I watched it and cried, very good acting and I had to keep saying in my head 'it's not real'.  I did ring my daughter and tell her not to watch it, as she gave birth on the 27th Jan to my grandson so felt that she was better not watching.  She is aware of cot death obviously.

I think that when done properly some of the soaps can cover these storylines really well and they can raise awareness in the right way and reach far more people than a documentary on the subject but I couldn't bring myself to watch, when i had my children i suffered with severe post natal illness and one of the things I became obsessed with was cot death and as a result constantly checked the children day and night when they were sleeping, read alot of literature about it and spent hours looking up info on the web about it. It was something that I became very hooked on and was convinced that it would happen to one of my children if I wasn't "extra vigilient", obviously one of the things i accepted in my recovery was that other than doing the normal safety measures it is completely out of your hands. I felt that watching it would bring back too many painful feelings/memories for me. Losing a child must be one of the most painful things for anyone to go through I just hope that it didn't rake up alot of painful memories for people that have suffered this terrible tragedy. :-(

I just wish that the doctors and scientists could really find out why this happens, in the past 22yrs there have been some improvements, but, not  many, my granddaughter did not come from a smoking household, was placed on her back etc, but she had been ill the week before, doctors suspected measles, which we all thought strange at that young age as we thought the mothers immunity would still stop her getting this, but, after the post mortem, they said there had been no sign of measles!!!, after all these years we are, like many others, still unsure why this happens.  I hope before I die that they find out why this can happen. I have not watched a young baby overnight since that happened, unless they have a hospital fitted baby monitor, which my gt. granddaughter had, but, my other daughters baby did not as it was not her mum that had a baby that died.  I feel that the "new babies"  born last year in the family have missed out on their gran (me) watching them overnight.

Thing is although the episode raised awareness that it happens they did not mention anything about why it happens, what she could have done to avoid it etc, infact the doctor said that even with a postmortem they may never know. Whilst i'm sure they will go into it in more detail later on, if i was a new mother i would just have been left totally paranoid and helpless.

I think it is a good storyline, and I doubt the writers went into it without giving it a whole lot of thought. i also think it is good that they chose Ashely and Laurel to be the parents, as it shows that thsi happens to 'normal', respectable families in good housing etc, as there are still so many myths surrounding cot death, and people are still not sure of the facts, which has already been shown by some comments on this thread.

The majority of people are aware of the thinsg that are advised t reduce the risks, butmany are not. If this storyline can help make at least one parent more aware, then that is good enough for me.