Tragic Infant Death Caused by Sling Suffocation: A Warning for Parents on Safe Baby-Wearing Practices.
In 2019, tragedy struck when three-week-old Harvey McGlinn suffocated to death while being carried in a sling. The infant boy was found immobile and colorless at a community health service on the NSW Central Coast after his mother, Tattika Dunn, untied the sling she was wearing. Despite the staff’s best efforts to revive him with …