Children get caught between adult bodies and forgiving cushions or get stuck in loose fabrics and suffocate. Sleeping on a couch or sofa increases the likelihood of SUIDS 67-fold and deaths on couches accounted for nearly 13 percent of sleep-related infant deaths last year. Cushions don’t soften the hard data: That’s a terrible prospect. Dads who fall asleep on the couch or in a chair while trying to take care of a child risk having that child roll off of them or out of their arms. But a good impulse can lead to terrible results, especially in the living room. Lori Feldman-Winter, co-author of the American Academy of Pediatrics safe sleep recommendations. “As a father, the only thing you want to do is have a healthy baby and help out” acknowledges Dr. Emergency Room doctors and pediatricians see those tragedies regularly. Many perish near dad or under him from due to suffocation. Of the 4,000 babies that die of SUIDS annually, a significant number die on couches or in armchairs. It turns out that image of the tired dad and the placid child, which has become so popular on Instagram and other social media sites, depicts very real danger. Sadly, the Hanke story-horrible and personal as it may be - is not unique. The idyllic image of the dad sleeping with his kid on his chest, turned tragic. “A couple hours later I woke up and Charlie was gone.”Ĭharlie fell victim to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, a diagnosis included in Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Syndrome, next to his sleeping father. We were just hanging out and I nodded off,” Hanke remembers. “I just sat down on the couch to watch some TV and he was kind of sitting on my chest. Hanke fell asleep with his son hoping to give his wife, who had been breastfeeding, a rest. It was April of 2010 and the pediatric cardiologist and his wife Maura, a kindergarten teacher, were both overjoyed to have a healthy kid, who had come into the world without drama and, occasional fussiness aside, been a normal baby boy. Sam Hanke fell asleep on the couch with his 4-week-old son Charlie and woke up, hours later, to find his child dead.
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