marvinlundy July 19th, 2010
The
AP (7/15) reports 82,000 “drop-side cribs from popular retailer Pottery Barn Kids are being recalled over safety concerns.” According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the “cribs on recall could pose a suffocation or entrapment risk to young children if the drop-side rail on the crib detaches,” citing faulty hardware. “The recall involves all Pottery Barn Kids drop-side cribs regardless of model number.”
Bloomberg News (7/15, Bostick, Langford) reports the CPSC, “citing 153 deaths in the past four years, voted to ban drop-side cribs in the agency’s first across-the-board overhaul of regulations for infant beds in almost three decades.” CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum said yesterday “the agency was following a mandate from Congress.”
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marvinlundy May 27th, 2010
You’re probably planning on spending some time by someone’s pool this weekend. Playing in the water is fun, but remember to keep safe, especially if you’ve got the kids with you. Here are a few tips from the National Institutes of Health for water safety this weekend:
- Avoid alcohol when swimming or boating
- Wear a life jacket whenever you’re in a boat
- Don’t swim alone, or in bad weather
- Learn CPR
- Learn to swim and teach your children to swim
- Supervise your children when they are in the water
- And, of course, to prevent sunburns, use plenty of sunscreen
I can give you a few more. Like we did in camp, have a swim buddy, keep rescue gear and a cell phone handy and make sure to have a first-aid kit nearby. If you do these things in advance, then you can take it easy while you’re in the water. Have a happy and healthy Memorial Day. Put a burger on the grill for me!
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marvinlundy March 26th, 2010
You may have seen this article in the March 25 Inquirer. It’s very sad…a warning to parents.
Since Feb. 20, 2009, Anthoinette Medley has been living a parent’s worst nightmare.
That was the day Medley tucked her 7-week-old twins into matching SlingRider baby carriers, one on each shoulder, for a trip into Center City. When she ran into a friend at the Gallery, she wanted to show off her baby boys, Nelsir and Timir Scott. But when she opened Nelsir’s sling, he didn’t seem to be breathing.
Today, 13 months after Nelsir’s death, Medley won a small victory: Infantino L.L.C., the San Diego company that makes the SlingRider and the identical Wendy Bellissimo infant sling, said it had agreed to recall about a million of the slings sold in the last seven years at stores such as Wal-Mart, Target, and Babies R Us.
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marvinlundy March 26th, 2010
The AP (3/25) reported, “Evenflo is recalling 150,000 wooden gates that block stairways from young children. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the slats on Evenflo Top-of-Stair Plus gates can break or detach, allowing children to access the stairs. The company has received 142 reports of broken or detached slats, including three reports of children who breached the gate and gained access to the stairs.”
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marvinlundy March 15th, 2010
Parents, grandparents, friends, please keep this in mind when you purchase stuff for the new baby.
The
AP (3/9) reported, “The government is preparing a safety warning about baby slings – those popular and fashionable infant carriers that parents strap around their chests to give the little ones a cuddle on the move.” At “a meeting of the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association, an industry trade group that certifies certain children’s products, including soft infant carriers,” CPSC chief Inez Tenenbaum warned of the suffocation danger to infants, commenting, “‘We know of too many deaths in these slings and we now know the hazard scenarios for very small babies,’ said Tenenbaum.”
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