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In addition to infants, this is bad for anyone in a microgravity environment too. At ISS, astronauts usually sleep next to ventilation fans to avoid oxygen starvation. As mentioned here, sleeping in a poorly ventilated space will result in sleeping under the CO2 bubble. Eventually, when they start to gasp for air, they had to wake up.