SINGAPORE – Local TV host Lee Teng’s wife has put him on blast on social media for using an unsafe method to coax their three-month-old baby to sleep, saying it made her furious.

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 also shared CCTV footage from the baby’s room and accused Lee of dangerous behaviour. The Taiwan-born personality was believed to have placed a small pillow on his son’s hand to avoid startling him, which should have been placed on the baby’s belly instead.

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 or add their own input, which could endanger their babies.