Federal statistics show that since 1985, at least 24 children under the age of 1 have suffocated after being left to sleep on a water bed.
The child was suffocating!
However, he decides that there is only so much air in the safe, and if he does not take action, the terrified child may suffocate.
When the businessman, whose child suffocated under a blanket, explains that he and his wife ate pizza afterward, he realizes how absurd it seems.
Margo was probably right; one day a child would suffocate or die of tetanus from being scratched on rusty wire.
If mattresses don't fit the frame properly children can get caught and suffocate.
Bed sheets ought to fit the mattress tightly so that the child cannot become entangled and suffocate; a common safety recommendation is to short sheet the bed.
Some children have suffocated when they picked up broken balloons, inhaled the pieces and choked on them.
"Even if that means that your own children suffocate?"
The three children and Loony fell on him and almost suffocated him.