The marketplace for baby sleep products just got safer this month. The Consumer Product Safety Commission approved rules banning inclined infant sleepers and padded crib bumpers. This is in response to the more than 100 infant deaths linked to inclined sleepers like Fisher Price's Rock 'n Play which ended up being recalled.
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00:00 The marketplace for baby sleep products just got safer.
00:04 This month, the Consumer Product Safety Commission approved rules banning inclined infant sleepers
00:09 and padded crib bumpers.
00:10 This is all in response to the more than 100 infant deaths linked to inclined sleepers
00:16 like the Fisher-Price's Rock 'n Play, which ended up being recalled.
00:19 Nonprofit Kids in Danger explains these government approvals are added steps to more clearly define
00:25 the Safe Sleep for Babies Act, which took effect about a year ago, and they're directed
00:30 at manufacturers.
00:31 Let's say Fisher-Price re-releases the Rock 'n Play, calls it something else and says,
00:37 "Oh, it's not for sleep."
00:39 Even though it's still, even if they make a few changes, even though it's clearly still
00:44 the same product, they wouldn't be able to do that because the law said it can't have
00:48 been designed for sleep.
00:50 As a reminder, here are the ABCs of safe sleep.
00:53 A. Babies should sleep alone.
00:55 B. On their backs.
00:57 And C. In a crib, bassinet or play yard.
01:00 To be clear, it's illegal for manufacturers to make these inclined sleepers for infants
01:05 and non-mesh crib bumpers, but it's also illegal to sell them, and that includes secondhand.