Our daughter is limp and won’t wake up. So we panic and call for help.
The nurse on the other end of the 24-hour helpline calmly goes through a checklist to figure out what might be wrong.
All that advice can be a trap. Sometimes there’s no substitute for trusting your gut – especially if your child is limp and won’t wake up in the middle of the night.
Euan Black and his baby daughter photographed for Father’s Day. Arsineh Houspian
Our daughter is limp and won’t wake up. So we panic and call for help.
The nurse on the other end of the 24-hour helpline calmly goes through a checklist to figure out what might be wrong.
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