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The initial warning last week said this was due to infants over 3 months who were capable of rolling and not using the harness. They also said only 10 deaths.
by eridius 8y ago
The initial warning last week said this was due to infants over 3 months who were capable of rolling and not using the harness. They also said only 10 deaths.
Consumer Reports did an investigation and discovered 32 deaths, including some where the infant was less than 3 months old and died without rolling over.
> There is, for example, the mother in Hidalgo County, Texas, who placed her 2-month old daughter on her back for a night’s sleep on Oct. 19, 2013, according to a lawsuit filed by the family against Fisher-Price. At 4 a.m., when the mother checked, all was well, but by 7 a.m., the baby had stopped breathing. Her head was tilted to the side with her chin on her shoulder, compressing her airway. She was pronounced dead at the scene from positional asphyxia, or an inability to breathe caused by her position.
> The most recent deaths CR found occurred in spring 2018—one involving a 1-month-old girl in Knoxville, Tenn., and the other a 9-day-old boy in Copperas Cove, Texas.
There's another where a 7-week-old nearly died with their grandmother in the room, but thankfully she noticed the kid turning blue and lifeless and got him breathing again in time.
At this point I had to stop reading the article, it was upsetting me too much, but you can keep reading if you want to: https://www.consumerreports.org/recalls/fisher-price-rock-n-play-sleeper-should-be-recalled-consumer-reports-says/ https://www.consumerreports.org/recalls/fisher-price-rock-n-...