Child safety advocates worry these new regulations, while well meant, will not make a significant dent in the number of annual infant deaths.
Store shelves holding baby products designed to help parents ease babies into sleep may be barren this week, due to new US Consumer Product Safety Commission regulations that went into effect on June 23.
People are also reading… "I looked at years of data from the CPSC's nursery products annual report," she said."I found that almost all of the deaths from using these infant products — whether intended for sleep or not — were the direct result of the way the product was being used by a parent or caregiver."
"I think from an optics perspective it looks like CPSC is doing something but they're really not," she said."Recalling and banning products or requiring modifications to products doesn't address the root cause — which is behavior." Since then, pediatricians and consumer safety advocates have struggled to reduce the number of infant sleep tragedies, which remain at some 3,500 deaths each year. The Safe Sleep for Babies Act, signed by US President Joe Biden in 2021, and the new CPSC regulations are designed to move that needle.
"Intuitively, I'm not going to read the manufacturers manual. I'm going to either go to Google or try to figure it out myself," Jacobson said."I'm also not going to go to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. I'm going to go on social media or call a friend." Grandmothers and mothers are"telling new moms to"put your baby on the tummy, it will soothe them to sleep,' or 'cuddle the baby' or 'give it something soft to hold onto,' because it worked for them and their baby didn't die," she added.
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