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“Nationwide, we lose enough infants to fill up three kindergarten classrooms per week,” said Sharon Evans, trauma injury prevention manager at Cook Children’s Health Care System. “That’s 3,700 lives lost per year.”

Unintentional suffocation is the leading cause of injury-related death among children less than 1 year old. Unsafe sleep environments for infants are the primary cause of infant suffocation.Any parent of a 0-12 month old infant may be concerned …