After Samuel Hanke’s infant son, Charlie, died from accidental suffocation in his arms 13 years ago, he and his wife, Maura, formed Charlie’s Kids, a nonprofit focused on safe sleep practices for infants.
Cook Children’s Health Care System, based in Fort Worth, Texas, has put out advertisements promoting safe infant sleep practices. Baby Diaper Bags
After Samuel Hanke’s infant son, Charlie, died from accidental suffocation in his arms 13 years ago, he and his wife, Maura, formed Charlie’s Kids, a nonprofit focused on safe sleep practices for infants.
Samuel Hanke is a pediatric cardiologist in Cincinnati, but when you ask him for his title, he follows it by saying: “Most importantly, I’m Charlie’s dad.”
Many parents know that babies should be on their backs to sleep, but warnings about strangulation by blankets or suffocation by sharing a bed with them sometimes fall through the cracks.
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Cook Children’s Health Care System, based in Fort Worth, Texas, has put out advertisements promoting safe infant sleep practices.
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