Erika Richter's daughter Emma was just two weeks old when she died nearly three years ago while using a Fisher-Price Rock 'n Play Sleeper
"Now this is all I have left to remember my daughter," Richter said in a video played at the hearing, as she held up baby clothes in front of the camera. "Her outfit from the hospital that still smells like her."PHOTO: Erika Richter, of Portland, Oregon, holds her newborn daughter Emma in 2018.
The cause of death for some of the babies was asphyxia, or the inability to breathe, due to the child's position. "I think about what life would be like if I had known, and I think about other mothers a lot," she said. "Being able to finally join some of the mothers in a more public way has been something that has been really important to me and something that I’ve been waiting a really long time for, because my heart goes out to all of them. We’re kind of in this club that nobody wants to be in, that nobody should ever be in.
PHOTO: Erika Richter, whose daughter died in a Rock 'n Play sleeper in August 2018, speaks to 'Good Morning America.' Independent medical and other expert analyses verified that the sleeper was safe when used in accordance with its instructions and warnings, the spokesperson said., a model of its baby soothers, after four infants who were unrestrained and placed on their backs were later found dead lying on their stomachs.
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