Having your child placed into a car seat is fairly necessary these days, you’ve got to drive them from one place to another almost daily, and until they start riding the bus to school your early mornings usually consist of dropping them off at daycare.
One way or another, our kids have to ride along with us almost constantly; but did you know that there are health risks children undertake when passed out in them?
It's common knowledge that a baby's neck isn't strong enough to support the weight of their heads, but what many expecting and new parents don't know, is that they can actually constrict their own airways just because they can't lift their heads enough to breathe.
Meet Ali and Derek Dodd, two parents who found this out the hard way, after dropping their sleeping newborn off at daycare, only for him to sit asleep in his car seat until he choked himself to death. They boy's name was Shepard, and he was only 11-weeks-old. The sad part is that the worker had set him down and left him by himself for a whole two hours before discovering what had happened. Hours of resuscitation bore no fruit, and his parents were crushed.
What made the incident even worse was that just eleven days prior to the incident, the daycare worker in question was warned about the dangers of leaving sleeping children in a car seat, she simply chose to ignore it.
So please, share this message and get the word out so we can ensure no more of our newborns ever have to suffer through positional asphyxia again.
