**Fisher-Price Rocking Sleepers and Kids Too Inclined Sleepers Recall**

As a parent, there's nothing more precious than your child's safety and well-being. Unfortunately, Fisher-Price Rocking Sleepers and Kids Too Inclined Sleepers have been found to be hazardous products that can put infants at risk of serious injury or death. In this article, we will delve into the details of the recall and what parents can do to ensure their little ones' safety.

**A Call for Action**

We spoke with Anne Marie Buerkle, the acting chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who emphasized the importance of recalling these products. "Kids Too has agreed to recall six hundred and ninety four thousand kids to rocking sleepers. This involves all of their models since 2012. There have been five infant deaths involving kids two rocking sleepers after infants rolled over while unrestrained or under other circumstances." Buerkle urged parents to stop using these products immediately, "Get rid of any inclined sleeper product you have. These are not safe for sleep. They're inherently dangerous and shouldn't be on the market."

**The Dangers of Inclined Sleepers**

Inclined sleepers, also known as co-sleepers or sleeping cribs, were designed to cradle an infant's body while they sleep. However, these products have been found to pose a significant risk of suffocation and entrapment. According to the CPSC, there is no safe way to use an infant inclined sleeper. The agency has conducted extensive research and testing, which confirms that inclined sleepers are inherently dangerous.

**The History of Inclined Sleeper Safety**

In 2018, Fisher-Price Rocking Sleepers were recalled due to reports of infant deaths. Since then, numerous retailers have agreed to pull the products off the market, including Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and others. Despite this, some parents may still be unsure about the risks associated with inclined sleepers or may not believe that these products can harm their babies.

**The CPSC's Proposal**

In 2019, the CPSC proposed a rule to ban infant inclined sleepers. The agency conducted an extensive study on the risks associated with these products and found that there is no safe way to use them. The study revealed that infants who use inclined sleepers are at a higher risk of suffocation, entrapment, and other serious injuries.

**Legislation and Regulation**

The CPSC's proposal to ban infant inclined sleepers was met with bipartisan support in the House of Representatives. Congressman Cardenas introduced the Safe Sleep for Babies Act, which aims to eliminate these products from the market altogether. The bill has passed through the House but is currently awaiting a vote in the Senate.

**Retailer Action**

In response to the recall and growing concerns about inclined sleepers, retailers have vowed to pull these products off the market. Many big-box stores, including Amazon, eBay, Walmart, and others, have agreed to remove incline sleepers from their shelves. This action is a significant step towards ensuring that parents are aware of the risks associated with these products.

**The Ultimate Goal**

For parents, the ultimate goal is to ensure their child's safety and well-being. By getting rid of inclined sleeper products and supporting legislation that bans them, parents can help prevent infant deaths and injuries. The CPSC's efforts to regulate this industry have been met with praise from safety advocates, who hope that these actions will lead to a safer environment for infants.

**What Parents Can Do**

Parents who are unsure about the risks associated with inclined sleepers or may not know where to start can take several steps to ensure their child's safety. First, they should stop using any inclined sleeper product immediately. Next, parents can check online retailers and baby stores to see if these products are still available for purchase. If they find that an inclined sleeper is still on the market, they should contact the retailer or manufacturer and demand that it be removed.

**A Safe Sleep Environment**

Creating a safe sleep environment for your child is crucial. This means using only approved cribs, bassinets, or other sleeping products that meet current safety standards. Parents can also take steps to reduce the risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), such as placing their baby on their back to sleep, keeping the nursery cool and dark, and avoiding soft bedding and toys.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, the recall of Fisher-Price Rocking Sleepers and Kids Too Inclined Sleepers is a significant step towards ensuring that infants are safe from harm. By understanding the risks associated with these products and taking action to remove them from the market, parents can help prevent infant deaths and injuries. As safety advocates continue to push for legislation that bans inclined sleepers, we hope that this article has provided you with the information and resources needed to keep your child safe and sound.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello I'm Anne Marie Buerkle the acting chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission we are announcing today that fisher-price has agreed to recall all 4.7 million Rock and play infant sleepers since 2009 there have been more than 30 infant deaths involving the rock and play the fisher-price rock and play sleeper was put on the market in 2009 and since that time we found that at least 32 infants have died while in the product in the case of the infinite coin sleep products like The Rock and play that came about as a result of exhausted parents who trying to calm their kid and to soothe their child so they can go to they can get to sleep themselves and many of them believe that it was reflux that was causing that in other words the child spitting up some believed by being on an incline it would help with the reflux issue that actually is not true according to pediatricians however that belief was there so manufacturers went about developing those products I'm urging parents to stop using this product immediately clearly the CPSC had a lot of information and by failing to act failing to recall these products until we shined a light on the number of deaths the CPSC really was not standing up for consumers in the course of the investigation into the rock and play sleeper I found failures of industry failures of regulators and really just a lack of urgency related to consumer safety that led to infant fatalities that should never have happened ha sure is our third little boy he was just a sweet sweet little baby and he still dances all the time and sings and he's just very frilly how did you first learn about this product our neighbor had the fisher-price rock and play had just had a baby that was finished with it and asked if we wanted to borrow it honestly I thought I could use it in place of a bassinet or even like a crib so let's go back four years ago what happened that day to Asher it was the end of the summer and I was with my mom and she had come down from South Carolina to help me set up my classroom we went to lunch and came back the baby fell asleep at lunch I took him out of the car seat to put into the fisher-price Rock and play just thinking that it would be more comfortable for him so we put him in it and he was already sleeping and we went about our business trying to decorate the classroom so I went around to check on you know the baby he was not breathing he was blue and he was blue all through here and blue all around his mouth he was sitting just like normal centers seated but cocked like this and his and his ear was kind of down and his chin was a little down and he was he looked almost like it was stuck over like that and I thought he's dead he's dead you know and I just screamed god no and I put the baby up to run and this hand just came up to my chest as if you're going like that to yourself like no and but it hit him in the diaper he then his shoulders darlin and he was gasping they cystic Otto weird just gasping for air I'm a date Lee called our pediatrician and we went straight to Children's Healthcare of Ilyana it was pretty awful they put him through lots of tests to rule out things like meningitis and other things that could cause maybe the you know lack of oxygen and him not breathing but when you left the hospital did you leave with any certainty as to what caused this well no it was a mystery that it was sort of a mystery at this point that had to be terrified yeah it definitely was we were so frightened and I then began researching on the internet about the log posts and comments from parents and I called fisher-price to report you know thinking that they would be super concerned and call them to report hey this happened and this is how I found my grandson and you need to know this they you know kind of sent us a letter that was very nasty and very like accusatory of it being our fault of misusing the product and that kind of sparked some like definite questions and thinking you know why why would they be so defensive about this we're you know not even think we're not at this point not even thinking it could have been linked to that other than the way his head was had fallen he's for now and we still you know he's like our little miracle so I still really just worried my god it's not that I worry but I'm just so thankful that he is here with us it I definitely treat him differently I think I first heard about the fisher-price rock and play sleeper in about 2012 something like that and a parent was telling me about this product that they were very very positive about it and how much it had helped them out that it seemed to help their baby who had been kind of a fussier baby sleep better at night and the first thing that struck me was that this doesn't really sound safe the AAP had just come out the year before in 2011 with safe sleep guidelines that he had pretty strict parameters for how babies should be put down to sleep on their backs and a firm flat surface flat meaning flat parallel with the earth not inclined not declined just flat the surface should also be firm not bouncy not squishy and it sounded to me like the rocking place sleeper really didn't fit those guidelines this is the fisher-price rock and play sleeper and there's several key design elements here that contradict the safe sleep guidelines first it's clearly not flat the baby sleeps in this kind of an L shape here the the tush goes here and the knees are flexed up towards the belly so the baby can't be flat and advice like this also the device holds a baby and an incline and that allows a baby's relatively large head to roll to the side and that can close off the airway that's just gravity the heads here that kind of rolls downward to the side and baby can't breathe more also the device isn't isn't firm isn't firm at all it's supposed to be a firm flat surface and as you can see here it's kind of squishy there is a plastic insert back here but even that's flexible if you push on it right the fourth thing is that this is is very padded here this is a soft squishy pad in fact other other rocking play sleepers actually have an even softer insert that goes on top here this soft material though can be a suffocation risk for a baby if the head turns and pushes into the side here SIDS by definition is a sudden unexpected death for which there is no apparent cause after a thorough death scene investigation and an autopsy but there's a broader care to category of deaths of infants referred to as su ID sudden unexpected infant deaths that includes conditions where a baby x fixates or loses the airway so the baby can't breathe that might be caused by overlying someone accidentally rolling on top of the baby that might be caused by a baby whose head becomes entrapped perhaps between a mattress and the wall it might include a baby who suffocates on soft bedding or it might be a baby who's sleeping in an inappropriate inclined position so that so that the head tips forward or perhaps forward in sideways at the same time closing off the upper airway I was pretty astounded to see how fisher-price went about getting this product to market because the AAP guidelines were so clear I thought of course they would not be able to market this as a sleeper but what they did was when they were beginning to bring it to market they sold it along with their bassinets at the time that it was introduced the bassinet standard had not yet been changed to require that the incline of the product could not be greater than 10 degrees so once that happened fisher-price asked the CPSC for their product to be exempt than from the bassinet standard how did this story come about what were the early kind of stages of this what happened was are requested clearinghouse data from the government from the Consumer Product Safety Commission and in their usual requests they got back a bunch of data showing incidents of injuries and fatalities for wide range of products but this time the data had manufacturer information which it doesn't typically have in a meeting where we were just reviewing the data to see what's there and if there's anything that raises a red flag for us it was really easy to see that there was a problem with the fisher-price rockin play there were other deaths linked with other inclined sleepers but the number of deaths linked to the rock and placed sleeper was just astonishing what was that for like the light fo he's so happy he was she caused him like a wiggly baby he was always just smiling and he had the cutest cheeks it was like heaven opened up and he came through and there he was and he was so happy and big and smiley he was very aware of everything going on around him and all of our family just fell in love with him - I think I browned about three and a half months was when we started using the fisher-price rocking play after we were gifted it by one of our neighbors they were telling us you know it's a lifesaver it's very handy and if he gets tired of laying in the bassinet you can put him in this and it will help him fall asleep so walk me through the night when the incident happened what was it sort of a normal night for you as a family I just placed the rock and play right in front of the couch and had Evan I said you can have the night off and go rest the bassinet is in our bedroom where she was and I told her just go to sleep I left him in the rock and play and when I woke up and I look at the rocker and I found Ezra already passed away and I just began to freak out his face was planted into the back of the seat like into the monkey's face I guess of the rocker and his feet were straight standing into the dip of the seat and when I picked him up he felt like a doll and I just got up and screamed for Evan to come call the police it felt like hours that we waited in the other room for them to finally come back and say there was nothing that they could do and he had passed away yeah we had to get out of there I couldn't remember all of the memories that I had with him in that space I just wanted a fresh start I needed um a change for sure when did you make the connection that the rock and play may have had something to do with his death how did that happen I think we started rolling around blame in our in our minds like in that situation you thinking something happened because I protect my child and I was with him every single day I mean I think it's when we started looking into it a little bit more and we were researching we went on Amazon and we actually were reading some of the one-star reviews and I left a review saying my baby died in this chair don't don't buy this chair there's there was nothing else that could have possibly made sense to me do you feel like you should have known about this problem before Consumer Reports published its article to get 100% hundred-percent everyone should know if there's one baby that died in a product you should know about that the American Academy of Pediatrics today joined growing calls to have fisher-price a bit fisher-price baby sleeper recalled Consumer Reports has linked 32 infant deaths to that sleeper I called fisher-price and the CPSC and we let them know that we knew of dozens of deaths associated with their product and while we were waiting for them to comment they issued a joint alert admitting that there were at least 10 deaths associated with their product now we knew there was much more to the story than that so after that Alert was issued we went back to the CPSC and fisher-price and said what's going on here we know about more of these deaths are you gonna recall the product they didn't and we came out with our story that publicly addressed all of this essentially five days after we published our story fisher-price recalled the ROC we begin right now with some breaking news fisher-price has recalled all models of its rock and play sleeper in this case it would seem as though fisher-price had the data the CPSC had the data but the public was not made aware of this that's correct until Consumer Reports got involved yes that's correct does that seem unusual no that is not unusual because in the Consumer Product Safety Act there's a section called 6b that requires that the CPSC talked to the manufacturer before the information is disclosed publicly and typically what happens is the information about the product and the company name is redacted for many reports that are made public I think there are just a you know most consumers probably don't even know that 6b exists right I mean yeah I mean we could add on that I mean 6b is probably one of the more dangerous government provisions that no one's ever heard of it puts every consumer at risk because corporations stepped in and they worked with the administration and Congress in the 1980s in order to block CPSC's ability to publicly talk about these safety risks we just need to get rid of this ridiculous provision we need every consumer and we need the CPSC to be able to know about and talk publicly about the safety risks of any product that's putting our children our families or ourselves at risk we have a thing with birds where if I we see white birds that it's assembled that he's nearby or a white butterfly it's like a spirit a good spirit around you we actually went to the Butterfly Museum in DC one time and we were in there and we were you know all the butterflies were flying around on us we did not see one white butterfly when we were in there but as soon as we left the exhibit we saw one white butterfly that had gotten out of the exhibit and flew up and landed on the wall and we immediately started crying because we knew that that was him and that was him saying look I'm still here I'm still around you even though I exist differently Here I am he's not finished with this world even though he's in another place he's protecting the babies in this world right now and and that was a big push for the recall we were just like so motivated to to not let this happen at all to anyone else's babies as the general manager of fisher-price I've spent my career creating products designed for the safe and healthy development of infants and preschoolers most of it right here at fisher-price I know the long proud tradition this company has a prioritizing safety as a cornerstone of our mission with this action we at fisher-price want parents around the world to know that we have every intention of continuing that tradition you hello I'm Anne Marie Buerkle the acting chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission we are announcing today that kids too has agreed to recall six hundred and ninety four thousand kids to rocking sleepers this involves all of their models since 2012 there have been five infant deaths involving kids two rocking sleepers after infants rolled over while unrestrained or under other circumstances I'm urging parents to stop using this product immediately now that those products have been recalled I would say there's a couple of critical things first of all every parent out there please get rid of any inclined sleeper product you have these are not safe for sleep these these inclined sleepers are inherently dangerous and shouldn't be on the market and their product category should be eliminated what is your message to those people that are maybe just don't quite believe this or think that it can't happen to them right I would I would say that be thankful that you're at your wits end be thankful you have a baby to care for don't be thankful they're crying and do not put your baby in jeopardy of dying so that you can get a few hours of sleep it's just not worth it because what if it does happen to you you so in April after the fisher-price rockin play was recalled and kids too inclined sleepers were recalled there was still a lot of concern that this product category would reinvent itself and come back on the market and within the CPSC's investigation analysis they commissioned a study and that was the first study ever to really look at the risks of inclined sleepers and it found that there is no safe way to use an infant inclined sleeper and the CPSC heeded that recommendation and issued a proposed rule to ban infant inclined sleepers and shortly after that all five CPSC commissioners also voted to ban those sleepers those regulations take a long time to come into effect that doesn't mean that the products are pulled off the shelves right now so there are still infant and klein sleepers out there that have not been recalled and no regulations are in place yet to get them off the market are you still monitoring the number of infant deaths related to this product well unfortunately since the time that we published the article we've heard of more and more reports of infant deaths in inclined sleepers and then the CPSC in their report confirmed that there are 73 reported deaths linked to infant and klein sleepers those are just the ones that have been reported at this point unfortunately we do expect to see that number rise because we know that there are other incidents out there that have not found their way to the CPSC or even been reported to a manufacturer of course we hope that the more we get the word out about the dangers of these products the more people stop using them and the death subside that is that is the ultimate goal for people to stop using these products so that no more babies are harmed Amazon eBay Walmart byebye baby those are among some of the big retailers who have vowed to pull these sleepers off the market even without a recall safety advocates are really applauding this action by retailers I'm proud to speak in support of congressman Cardenas bill the safe sleep for babies Act which will finally ban and climb sleepers another way that people are working to get unsafe products related to infant sleep off the market is through legislation and legislators have introduced and it has passed through the house the safe sleep for babies Act which would ban infant Incline sleepers and crib bumpers from the market and it is now awaiting a vote in the Senate and that is yet another Avenue that could potentially get these products off the market let's talk about movement on changing 6b what has happened there so a lot of people have been pushing for this to be repealed or amended in some way and it seems like it's gaining traction we hope that that this law will go by the wayside soon that's what if this is about you know this is about the parents and this is about the babies and you can get caught up in all of these regulations and all of these laws and you know what industry is going to do but in the end this is about liveshello I'm Anne Marie Buerkle the acting chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission we are announcing today that fisher-price has agreed to recall all 4.7 million Rock and play infant sleepers since 2009 there have been more than 30 infant deaths involving the rock and play the fisher-price rock and play sleeper was put on the market in 2009 and since that time we found that at least 32 infants have died while in the product in the case of the infinite coin sleep products like The Rock and play that came about as a result of exhausted parents who trying to calm their kid and to soothe their child so they can go to they can get to sleep themselves and many of them believe that it was reflux that was causing that in other words the child spitting up some believed by being on an incline it would help with the reflux issue that actually is not true according to pediatricians however that belief was there so manufacturers went about developing those products I'm urging parents to stop using this product immediately clearly the CPSC had a lot of information and by failing to act failing to recall these products until we shined a light on the number of deaths the CPSC really was not standing up for consumers in the course of the investigation into the rock and play sleeper I found failures of industry failures of regulators and really just a lack of urgency related to consumer safety that led to infant fatalities that should never have happened ha sure is our third little boy he was just a sweet sweet little baby and he still dances all the time and sings and he's just very frilly how did you first learn about this product our neighbor had the fisher-price rock and play had just had a baby that was finished with it and asked if we wanted to borrow it honestly I thought I could use it in place of a bassinet or even like a crib so let's go back four years ago what happened that day to Asher it was the end of the summer and I was with my mom and she had come down from South Carolina to help me set up my classroom we went to lunch and came back the baby fell asleep at lunch I took him out of the car seat to put into the fisher-price Rock and play just thinking that it would be more comfortable for him so we put him in it and he was already sleeping and we went about our business trying to decorate the classroom so I went around to check on you know the baby he was not breathing he was blue and he was blue all through here and blue all around his mouth he was sitting just like normal centers seated but cocked like this and his and his ear was kind of down and his chin was a little down and he was he looked almost like it was stuck over like that and I thought he's dead he's dead you know and I just screamed god no and I put the baby up to run and this hand just came up to my chest as if you're going like that to yourself like no and but it hit him in the diaper he then his shoulders darlin and he was gasping they cystic Otto weird just gasping for air I'm a date Lee called our pediatrician and we went straight to Children's Healthcare of Ilyana it was pretty awful they put him through lots of tests to rule out things like meningitis and other things that could cause maybe the you know lack of oxygen and him not breathing but when you left the hospital did you leave with any certainty as to what caused this well no it was a mystery that it was sort of a mystery at this point that had to be terrified yeah it definitely was we were so frightened and I then began researching on the internet about the log posts and comments from parents and I called fisher-price to report you know thinking that they would be super concerned and call them to report hey this happened and this is how I found my grandson and you need to know this they you know kind of sent us a letter that was very nasty and very like accusatory of it being our fault of misusing the product and that kind of sparked some like definite questions and thinking you know why why would they be so defensive about this we're you know not even think we're not at this point not even thinking it could have been linked to that other than the way his head was had fallen he's for now and we still you know he's like our little miracle so I still really just worried my god it's not that I worry but I'm just so thankful that he is here with us it I definitely treat him differently I think I first heard about the fisher-price rock and play sleeper in about 2012 something like that and a parent was telling me about this product that they were very very positive about it and how much it had helped them out that it seemed to help their baby who had been kind of a fussier baby sleep better at night and the first thing that struck me was that this doesn't really sound safe the AAP had just come out the year before in 2011 with safe sleep guidelines that he had pretty strict parameters for how babies should be put down to sleep on their backs and a firm flat surface flat meaning flat parallel with the earth not inclined not declined just flat the surface should also be firm not bouncy not squishy and it sounded to me like the rocking place sleeper really didn't fit those guidelines this is the fisher-price rock and play sleeper and there's several key design elements here that contradict the safe sleep guidelines first it's clearly not flat the baby sleeps in this kind of an L shape here the the tush goes here and the knees are flexed up towards the belly so the baby can't be flat and advice like this also the device holds a baby and an incline and that allows a baby's relatively large head to roll to the side and that can close off the airway that's just gravity the heads here that kind of rolls downward to the side and baby can't breathe more also the device isn't isn't firm isn't firm at all it's supposed to be a firm flat surface and as you can see here it's kind of squishy there is a plastic insert back here but even that's flexible if you push on it right the fourth thing is that this is is very padded here this is a soft squishy pad in fact other other rocking play sleepers actually have an even softer insert that goes on top here this soft material though can be a suffocation risk for a baby if the head turns and pushes into the side here SIDS by definition is a sudden unexpected death for which there is no apparent cause after a thorough death scene investigation and an autopsy but there's a broader care to category of deaths of infants referred to as su ID sudden unexpected infant deaths that includes conditions where a baby x fixates or loses the airway so the baby can't breathe that might be caused by overlying someone accidentally rolling on top of the baby that might be caused by a baby whose head becomes entrapped perhaps between a mattress and the wall it might include a baby who suffocates on soft bedding or it might be a baby who's sleeping in an inappropriate inclined position so that so that the head tips forward or perhaps forward in sideways at the same time closing off the upper airway I was pretty astounded to see how fisher-price went about getting this product to market because the AAP guidelines were so clear I thought of course they would not be able to market this as a sleeper but what they did was when they were beginning to bring it to market they sold it along with their bassinets at the time that it was introduced the bassinet standard had not yet been changed to require that the incline of the product could not be greater than 10 degrees so once that happened fisher-price asked the CPSC for their product to be exempt than from the bassinet standard how did this story come about what were the early kind of stages of this what happened was are requested clearinghouse data from the government from the Consumer Product Safety Commission and in their usual requests they got back a bunch of data showing incidents of injuries and fatalities for wide range of products but this time the data had manufacturer information which it doesn't typically have in a meeting where we were just reviewing the data to see what's there and if there's anything that raises a red flag for us it was really easy to see that there was a problem with the fisher-price rockin play there were other deaths linked with other inclined sleepers but the number of deaths linked to the rock and placed sleeper was just astonishing what was that for like the light fo he's so happy he was she caused him like a wiggly baby he was always just smiling and he had the cutest cheeks it was like heaven opened up and he came through and there he was and he was so happy and big and smiley he was very aware of everything going on around him and all of our family just fell in love with him - I think I browned about three and a half months was when we started using the fisher-price rocking play after we were gifted it by one of our neighbors they were telling us you know it's a lifesaver it's very handy and if he gets tired of laying in the bassinet you can put him in this and it will help him fall asleep so walk me through the night when the incident happened what was it sort of a normal night for you as a family I just placed the rock and play right in front of the couch and had Evan I said you can have the night off and go rest the bassinet is in our bedroom where she was and I told her just go to sleep I left him in the rock and play and when I woke up and I look at the rocker and I found Ezra already passed away and I just began to freak out his face was planted into the back of the seat like into the monkey's face I guess of the rocker and his feet were straight standing into the dip of the seat and when I picked him up he felt like a doll and I just got up and screamed for Evan to come call the police it felt like hours that we waited in the other room for them to finally come back and say there was nothing that they could do and he had passed away yeah we had to get out of there I couldn't remember all of the memories that I had with him in that space I just wanted a fresh start I needed um a change for sure when did you make the connection that the rock and play may have had something to do with his death how did that happen I think we started rolling around blame in our in our minds like in that situation you thinking something happened because I protect my child and I was with him every single day I mean I think it's when we started looking into it a little bit more and we were researching we went on Amazon and we actually were reading some of the one-star reviews and I left a review saying my baby died in this chair don't don't buy this chair there's there was nothing else that could have possibly made sense to me do you feel like you should have known about this problem before Consumer Reports published its article to get 100% hundred-percent everyone should know if there's one baby that died in a product you should know about that the American Academy of Pediatrics today joined growing calls to have fisher-price a bit fisher-price baby sleeper recalled Consumer Reports has linked 32 infant deaths to that sleeper I called fisher-price and the CPSC and we let them know that we knew of dozens of deaths associated with their product and while we were waiting for them to comment they issued a joint alert admitting that there were at least 10 deaths associated with their product now we knew there was much more to the story than that so after that Alert was issued we went back to the CPSC and fisher-price and said what's going on here we know about more of these deaths are you gonna recall the product they didn't and we came out with our story that publicly addressed all of this essentially five days after we published our story fisher-price recalled the ROC we begin right now with some breaking news fisher-price has recalled all models of its rock and play sleeper in this case it would seem as though fisher-price had the data the CPSC had the data but the public was not made aware of this that's correct until Consumer Reports got involved yes that's correct does that seem unusual no that is not unusual because in the Consumer Product Safety Act there's a section called 6b that requires that the CPSC talked to the manufacturer before the information is disclosed publicly and typically what happens is the information about the product and the company name is redacted for many reports that are made public I think there are just a you know most consumers probably don't even know that 6b exists right I mean yeah I mean we could add on that I mean 6b is probably one of the more dangerous government provisions that no one's ever heard of it puts every consumer at risk because corporations stepped in and they worked with the administration and Congress in the 1980s in order to block CPSC's ability to publicly talk about these safety risks we just need to get rid of this ridiculous provision we need every consumer and we need the CPSC to be able to know about and talk publicly about the safety risks of any product that's putting our children our families or ourselves at risk we have a thing with birds where if I we see white birds that it's assembled that he's nearby or a white butterfly it's like a spirit a good spirit around you we actually went to the Butterfly Museum in DC one time and we were in there and we were you know all the butterflies were flying around on us we did not see one white butterfly when we were in there but as soon as we left the exhibit we saw one white butterfly that had gotten out of the exhibit and flew up and landed on the wall and we immediately started crying because we knew that that was him and that was him saying look I'm still here I'm still around you even though I exist differently Here I am he's not finished with this world even though he's in another place he's protecting the babies in this world right now and and that was a big push for the recall we were just like so motivated to to not let this happen at all to anyone else's babies as the general manager of fisher-price I've spent my career creating products designed for the safe and healthy development of infants and preschoolers most of it right here at fisher-price I know the long proud tradition this company has a prioritizing safety as a cornerstone of our mission with this action we at fisher-price want parents around the world to know that we have every intention of continuing that tradition you hello I'm Anne Marie Buerkle the acting chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission we are announcing today that kids too has agreed to recall six hundred and ninety four thousand kids to rocking sleepers this involves all of their models since 2012 there have been five infant deaths involving kids two rocking sleepers after infants rolled over while unrestrained or under other circumstances I'm urging parents to stop using this product immediately now that those products have been recalled I would say there's a couple of critical things first of all every parent out there please get rid of any inclined sleeper product you have these are not safe for sleep these these inclined sleepers are inherently dangerous and shouldn't be on the market and their product category should be eliminated what is your message to those people that are maybe just don't quite believe this or think that it can't happen to them right I would I would say that be thankful that you're at your wits end be thankful you have a baby to care for don't be thankful they're crying and do not put your baby in jeopardy of dying so that you can get a few hours of sleep it's just not worth it because what if it does happen to you you so in April after the fisher-price rockin play was recalled and kids too inclined sleepers were recalled there was still a lot of concern that this product category would reinvent itself and come back on the market and within the CPSC's investigation analysis they commissioned a study and that was the first study ever to really look at the risks of inclined sleepers and it found that there is no safe way to use an infant inclined sleeper and the CPSC heeded that recommendation and issued a proposed rule to ban infant inclined sleepers and shortly after that all five CPSC commissioners also voted to ban those sleepers those regulations take a long time to come into effect that doesn't mean that the products are pulled off the shelves right now so there are still infant and klein sleepers out there that have not been recalled and no regulations are in place yet to get them off the market are you still monitoring the number of infant deaths related to this product well unfortunately since the time that we published the article we've heard of more and more reports of infant deaths in inclined sleepers and then the CPSC in their report confirmed that there are 73 reported deaths linked to infant and klein sleepers those are just the ones that have been reported at this point unfortunately we do expect to see that number rise because we know that there are other incidents out there that have not found their way to the CPSC or even been reported to a manufacturer of course we hope that the more we get the word out about the dangers of these products the more people stop using them and the death subside that is that is the ultimate goal for people to stop using these products so that no more babies are harmed Amazon eBay Walmart byebye baby those are among some of the big retailers who have vowed to pull these sleepers off the market even without a recall safety advocates are really applauding this action by retailers I'm proud to speak in support of congressman Cardenas bill the safe sleep for babies Act which will finally ban and climb sleepers another way that people are working to get unsafe products related to infant sleep off the market is through legislation and legislators have introduced and it has passed through the house the safe sleep for babies Act which would ban infant Incline sleepers and crib bumpers from the market and it is now awaiting a vote in the Senate and that is yet another Avenue that could potentially get these products off the market let's talk about movement on changing 6b what has happened there so a lot of people have been pushing for this to be repealed or amended in some way and it seems like it's gaining traction we hope that that this law will go by the wayside soon that's what if this is about you know this is about the parents and this is about the babies and you can get caught up in all of these regulations and all of these laws and you know what industry is going to do but in the end this is about lives\n"