Deaths Prompt CPSC and FDA Warning on Infant Sleep Positioners
Press Release # 10-358
Transcript
The picture, text and audio sequence is as follows:
- Screen reading: "Deaths Prompt CPSC and FDA Warning on Infant Sleep Positioners - September 29, 2010"
- Audio and video (CPSC Spokesperson Nychelle Fleming): "The US Consumer Product Safety Commission and the US Food and Drug Administration are warning parents and caregivers to stop using sleep positioners. A sleep positioner is a product that is used to keep babies on their back while sleeping."
- Video scenes (while Nychelle Fleming is talking) of pictures of sleep positioners and the caption "Positioners come in a variety of styles".
- Audio (Nychelle Fleming): "CPSC has received dozens of reports of infants who were placed on their backs or sides in sleep positioners only to be found later in potentially hazardous positions within or next to sleep positioners.
- Video scenes (while Nychelle Fleming is talking) of pictures of sleep positioners and the caption "Claim to hold sleeping babies in position". Then a video of Nychelle Fleming beside a crib, and then a doll of an infant in a sleep positioner with its face pressed into the product. Then the doll is placed on its side, and then it is demonstrated how the doll can roll back on its stomach, again with its face pressed into the product.
- Audio (Nychelle Fleming): "If babies are placed on their stomachs on a flat sleep positioner, the babies' faces can get trapped against the bolster causing babies to suffocate. Babies placed on their side with the bolster at their back can easily roll onto their stomach with their faces pressed into the product, blocking their breathing. Babies placed on an inclined sleep positioner can scoot around and end up with their heads trapped between the positioner and the side of the crib. This can cut off a baby's ability to breathe."
- Video scenes (while Nychelle Fleming is talking) of a doll of an infant in a sleep positioner rolling off the positioner and the head being trapped between the positioner and the crib. Then a picture of a doll of an infant being placed into a crib on its back without a positioner. Then a video showing Nychelle Fleming taking pillows, comforters, thick quilts, and a large stuffed animal out of a crib. A caption reads "Do not place in crib: pillows, comforters, thick quilts, large stuffed toys". Then a picture of a crib with nothing in it except the mattress. Then the caption "Parents should stop using sleep positioners or any device to hold an infant on his or her back or side for sleep."
- Audio (Nychelle Fleming): "For the safest sleep environment possible, place babies to sleep on their back. Don't put babies to sleep on top of pillows, comforters or thick quilts. And don't place these items or large stuffed toys in your baby's crib, bassinet or play yard. The safest crib is one with only a mattress and a tight-fitting sheet. Parents should stop using sleep positioners or any device to hold an infant on his or her back or side for sleep. These are unnecessary and can pose a suffocation risk to your baby.
- Screen reading: "There is no scientific evidence showing that sleep positioners prevent SIDS. Claims about prevention of flat head or reflux have not been provent to outweigh the risk of suffocation".
- Screen reading: "Deaths Prompt CPSC and FDA Warning on Infant Sleep Positioners - September 29, 2010"
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