The Consumer Product Safety Commission just announced a recall of infant beds. Children’s safety equipment manufacturer KidCo Inc. is working with CPSC to recall approximately 220,000 infant travel beds in light of nine reported entrapment incidents and at least one infant death while using the portable sleep tent. It has been determined that a baby might get trapped by rolling into the space between the bed’s air mattress and the tent’s fabric sides, and suffocate.<\/p>\n
The Pea Pod Travel Crib includes an air mattress that tucks into a closeable envelope built into the dome tent floor. The domed tent is designed to collapse for travel, but when the inflatable mattress is in the tent floor, as designed, there is a space between the floor and the soft wall where the infant’s head can get lodged. It is believed that a 5-month-old baby boy became trapped in such a manner while napping in (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Consumer Product Safety Commission just announced a recall of infant beds. Children’s safety equipment manufacturer KidCo Inc. is working with CPSC to recall approximately 220,000 infant travel beds in light of nine reported entrapment incidents and at least one…<\/span><\/p>\n