"We have to constantly monitor (children)... no mother wants this to happen," said the mother of an 11-month-old baby girl who died after falling from a room window on the third floor of her family's Sri Aman apartment in Jalan Aman Putra, Kuala Lumpur, recently.

Norasikin Juliar, 37, said she considered the tragedy a painful lesson not to be complacent around children.

"I don't mean that at that time I was being negligent…