For the month of October the SIDS Network web site is sponsored by the Mihalko Family in loving memory of Margaret Joy Mihalko  9/15/89-10/23/89.

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(updated October 27, 2024 )

	CPSC Approves New Federal Safety Standard for Infant Support Cushions to Prevent Infant Deaths and Serious Injuries The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has approved a new federal mandatory standard to improve the safety of infant support cushions in order to protect babies from injury and death. By a 5 to 0 vote, the Commission approved a new rule that addresses suffocation, entrapment, and fall risks CPSC is aware of 79 infant deaths and 124 injuries between 2010 and 2022 associated with infant support cushions, with most injuries and deaths occurring among infants younger than 3-months old. The majority of these deaths involved the infant support cushion being used in or on a sleep product, including an adult bed or mattress, a bassinet, crib, play yard or on a couch, futon or toddler bed. Babies can turn over and roll out of infant support cushions without warning. To keep your baby safer while using infant support cushions: - Never use infant support cushions for infant sleep or naps. If your baby falls asleep, move your baby to a crib, play yard, or bassinet. - Stay near and watch your baby during use. - Only use an infant support cushion on the floor. Do not use on beds, sofas, or other raised surfaces. - Do not place infant support cushions on soft surfaces or in other infant sleep products, such as cribs or bassinets, or anywhere a baby sleeps. - Keep blankets and other soft items out of and away from the product. Release date: October 16, 2024. Read more here.
	Fisher-Price Recalls More than 2 Million Snuga Infant Swings Due to Suffocation Hazard After 5 Deaths Reported Name of Product: All Models of Fisher-Price Snuga Swings Hazard: The swing should never be used for sleep and bedding materials should never be added to it. If the product is used for sleep or bedding material is added, the headrest and body support insert on the seat pad can increase the risk of suffocation. Remedy: Refund or Repair Recall Date: October 10, 2024 Units: Approximately 2.1 million swings were sold in the United States, about 99,000 swings were sold in Canada and about 500 swings were sold in Mexico. Release date: October 10, 2024. Read more here.
	Baby Walkers Have Caused Injuries and Deaths—So Why Are They Banned in Canada But Not in the U.S.? Safety experts, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and Consumer Reports, are calling for their ban Hazard: Sit-in baby walkers you can buy all over, including via third-party sellers on Amazon and secondhand on Facebook Marketplace, have been linked to pediatric deaths and thousands of injuries. They’re considered unsafe by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), which has called for a ban on the manufacture and sale of them in the U.S. Since 2004, walkers have been banned in Canada, and experts in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and other places have also called for a ban. Release date: October 10, 2024. Read more here.
	CPSC Says Target, Walmart, Nordstrom, and Babylist Commit to Stop Selling Weighted Infant Products Hazard: CPSC has a clear warning for safe infant sleep: “Don’t use weighted blankets or weighted swaddles” for your babies. This matches the warnings from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that weighted products “can pose dangers for babies,” and from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that “[w]eighted products such as weighted sleepers, weighted swaddles, weighted sleep sacks, and weighted blankets are not safe for infants.” There are multiple infant deaths in these products. As the co-chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP’s) task force on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), Dr. Rachel Moon, explained to the Washington Post: “When babies are first born, their rib cage is not rigid, and so it doesn’t take a lot of pressure to press on it and create obstruction there. It makes it harder for them to breathe, it makes it harder for their heart to beat properly if there’s pressure on there.” Release date: April 26, 2024. Read more here.
	CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using La-La-Me Infant Loungers Due to Suffocation Risk and Fall Hazard; Fails to Meet Safety Requirements for Infant Sleep Products Name of Product: La-La-Me infant loungers Hazard: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning consumers to immediately stop using La-La-Me infant loungers because they do not comply with mandatory federal safety standards for infant sleep products and pose a suffocation risk and fall hazard to infants. Release date: August 10, 2023. Read more here.
	CPSC and The Boppy Company Urge Consumers to Stop Using Recalled Boppy Newborn Loungers and Urge Online Marketplaces to Stop Selling the Recalled Product; Two Additional Infant Deaths Reported Shortly After 2021 Recall Name of Product: Boppy Original Newborn Loungers, Boppy Preferred Newborn Loungers, and Pottery Barn Kids Boppy Newborn Loungers Hazard: Risk that infants can suffocate if they roll, move, or are placed on the lounger in a position that obstructs breathing, or roll off the lounger onto an external surface, such as an adult pillow. Remedy: Refund Release date: June 6, 2023. Read more here.
	Serotonin Receptor Binding and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome A number of articles hit the news in May 2023 regarding Serotonin Receptor Binding and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. The news refers to a Harvard team study that was published May 25, 2023 in "Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology", Volume 82, Issue 6, June 2023, Pages 467–482. We have received many e-mail messages asking for more information. The public has been on an information roller coaster, the result of an explosion of medical reports, each heralding a "breakthrough in SIDS research." We need to help people separate myth from fact and risk factor from cause. We will post information as it becomes available to us. (5/30/2023)
	Skip Hop Recalls Silver Lining Cloud Activity Gyms Due to Choking Hazard Name of Product: Silver Lining Cloud Activity Gyms Hazard: The raindrops on the cloud toy included with the activity gym can detach from the ribbon, posing a choking hazard if a child places it in their mouth. Remedy: Repair Release date: February 9, 2023. Read more here.
	CPSC and Baby Trend Warn Consumers About Entrapment Hazard with the Detachable Canopy on Baby Trend Sit N’ Stand Strollers; One Death Reported Release date: February 9, 2023. Read more here.
	Fisher-Price Reannounces Recall of 4.7 Million Rock ‘n Play Sleepers; At Least Eight Deaths Occurred After Recall On April 12, 2019, at the time the original recall was announced, over 30 fatalities were reported to have occurred in the Rock ‘n Play Sleepers after the infants rolled from their back to their stomach or side while unrestrained, or under other circumstances. Since the recall, approximately 70 additional fatalities have been reported, which includes at least 8 fatalities that were reported to have occurred after the initial recall announcement. Approximately 100 deaths have reportedly occurred while infants were in the products. Fisher-Price notes that in some of the reports, it has been unable to confirm the circumstances of the incidents or that the product was a Rock ‘n Play Sleeper. Announcement date: January 09, 2023 Read more here. (1/11/2023)
	American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement: Updated 2022 Recommendations for Reducing Infant Deaths in the Sleep Environment Rachel Y. Moon, MD, FAAP, Rebecca F. Carlin, MD, FAAP, Ivan Hand, MD, FAAP, THE TASK FORCE ON SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME AND THE COMMITTEE ON FETUS AND NEWBORN Safe sleep guidelines have been substantially revised since 2016. Read the AAP's revised Policy Statement here (6/21/2022)
	This Instagram-Ready Photograph is Profoundly Dangerous In 2010, Dr. Sam Hanke fell asleep on the couch with his 4-week-old son Charlie and woke up, hours later, to find his child dead. By Patrick A. Coleman Published on the Fatherly web site on 6/2/2017 (8/11/2021)
	Loss Research Project: Would you be willing to share your thoughts on your journey post child-loss and how marketing has helped or hurt you along the way? The project involves interviewing loss moms to see how marketing has hurt or helped them after loss (e.g., think of those formula samples that just keep coming and retrigger feelings of no longer having a child). The study goal is to find out if there are things that loss moms want from companies or anything that can be done to ease the pain and better honor one's child. If you are interested, details on the study can be found at https://elizabethminton.weebly.com/loss.html.
	The Sunshine Was Mocking Me––How It Feels To Lose Your Baby On A Pretty, Spring Day By Melissa Yoskowitz Published on the ScaryMommy web site on 6/1/2021
	Baby Sleep Safety Tips For You And Your Little One So You Can Both Snooze Soundly By Sabienna Bowman Published on the ScaryMommy web site on 5/6/2021