A mother is warning parents about the dangers of a dummy which broke apart and jammed in her daughter’s throat.

Furious Danielle Garraway-Shaw told how her six-month-old daughter Lily-Sue “could have died” after a pacifier’s teat snapped off in her mouth.

Ms Garraway-Shaw is now urging parents not to buy the tommee tippee “soothers” for their children and said they should be “taken off the shelves”.

The 23-year-old, from Hurstpierpoint, said: “We were at home when I suddenly heard Lily-Sue coughing really hard.

“When I came in I just saw the dummy’s base lying on her chest and I could see she was choking and trying to scream.

“I flipped her over but nothing came out. I was panicking. After what seemed like ages I just stuck my fingers down her throat and managed to get the teat out.”

In an email sent to Ms Garraway-Shaw, and seen by The Argus, makers of the dummy Mayborn Baby and Child insist child safety is its ‘number one priority’.

Lily-Sue was rushed to a doctor after her ordeal, where she was given the all-clear.

But Ms Garraway-Shaw said the traumatic incident had left her daugh- ter afraid to even feed from her milk bottle.

She said: “She’s terrified and I don’t know how to help her get over what happened. I’m so angry.”

After the incident, Ms Garraway-Shaw demanded an explanation from Mayborn Baby and Child and sent off the dummy pieces to be inspected.

The company told her that soothers have a ‘limited life’ and stressed the importance of vigilance, ‘especially when children develop teeth’.

It suggested there were “puncture marks that resulted in the tearing of the teat” – even though the tiny tot has no teeth – and there was no “quality issue with the product”.

They then offered to arrange for more new “soothers” to be sent to Ms Garraway-Shaw.

But Ms Garraway-Shaw said: “I don’t want their dummies – I wouldn’t touch them with a bargepole to be honest.

“And I don’t know how they can blame it on puncture marks when my daughter doesn’t even have any teeth. Even if she did, that shouldn’t mean the dummy should break apart in her mouth.

“I just want other parents to know how dangerous they can be.”

A spokesman from Tommy Tippee said: "We sympathise with Ms Garraway-Shaw over her daughter’s distress, it must have been an extremely frightening experience for them both.

"We’ve had the soother returned to us and on initial examination it appears there is a puncture and that this is not a manufacturing defect. We produce and sell over 3 million of this particular type of soother every year, and we have never had a manufacturing issue with it.

"We would like to send it away to an external, third party laboratory to confirm this. However, in order to send it away for independent testing we need Ms Garraway-Shaw’s permission, and so far she has refused. 

"We have offered replacement products as a goodwill gesture to Ms Garraway-Shaw, but these were declined. We also explained that all of our products are designed and tested by an independent external laboratory to ensure full compliance with rigid European Standards and to certify they are safe to use."