cribs

Injuries to small children attributed to nursery products -- anything from a crib to a stroller to a car carrier -- rose sharply in 2009, a study of emergency room visits by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission found. More than 77,000 children under the age of 5 had injuries connected to...

Nap Nanny baby recliners -- hailed by parents nationwide as a salvation from sleepless nights for infants with reflux, colic and other issues -- are being recalled after a 4-month-old Michigan girl was found dead in one this month, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. Baby Matters,...

Pottery Barn Kids has issued a recall for every drop-side crib sold by the retailer over the past 11 years, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. Deadly drop-side cribs, blamed for as many as 46 deaths since 2001, have been the subject of a recent spate of recalls -- including seven...

In its ongoing effort to halt the use of dangerous drop-side cribs, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a two million-crib recall involving seven companies including Evenflo, Child Craft and the maker of the Babi Italia line. The crib companies and the number of cribs involved...

It's hard to criticize a politician for being, well, a politician. And even when what they're proposing isn't really necessary, the publicity their bluster can bring can be of benefit. And such is New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's plan to get Congress to ban the now known-to-be dangerous...

At least 32 infants have suffocated or strangled in drop-side cribs in the past nine years, prompting the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue a warning about the "deadly hazards with drop-side cribs." One Crib recall after another in recent years has been due to hardware or assembly...

Parents with babies sleeping in a drop-sided crib with the brands C&T International, Sorelle or Golden Baby should check to see if their crib is included in a recall of 170,000 cribs sold between January 2000 and March 2010. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging people to stop...

Hundreds of thousands cribs are being recalled after they were connected to reports of infants becoming trapped in them, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is announcing today. The recalls are for cribs sold under the Graco and Simplicity brands. About 217,000 Graco brand drop side cribs...

Recalls of strollers, cribs, high chairs and other nursery products pushed nursery products to the top category of recalled products for the first time, the advocacy group Kids in Danger announced. In a just-released report analyzing recalls conducted by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety...

With millions of cribs recalled over safety concerns, it's important for parents and caregivers to understand how to ensure the baby's sleeping environment is as safe as possible. Statistics collected by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission show babies are more likely to die in a crib than...