In recent months, more and more information has been coming out about the unsafe nature of traditional crib bumpers. Something most first time parents are roped into because of the cute factor when shopping for matching nursery decorations and crib bedding sets.

The problem is, there is no one standing in Babies R Us, and all these other baby retail chain stores warning mothers about these crib bumpers, and why they should not be using them in their cribs. No safety warnings on the packaging, no warnings in the stores or near the displays, and the crib and crib bedding companies are not going out of their way to say they shouldn’t be used in a crib with a baby.

Why? Because the money would come out of their pockets. Crib bumpers, and crib bedding is an annual million dollar industry in which hundreds of thousands of new parents are roped in to buy this product that could, and very well may kill their child.

It hasn’t been until recently that major news organizations are starting to pick up on stories of children killed by crib bumpers, and report it on a national scale. In December The Chicago Tribune published a expose piece on the Hidden Hazards of Crib Bumpers which made a huge splash onto the internet.

On what would become the worst night of his life, Kyle Maxwell fed his son, Preston, a bottle and rocked the 7-week-old baby to sleep. He put Preston in his crib, took a shower and went to bed.

The next morning, Kyle woke up feeling panicked. Preston wasn’t crying or cooing from his crib across the hall. Kyle jumped out of bed and ran the few steps to the baby’s room.

“That’s where the world turned upside down,” he said.

Preston was lying face down in his crib with his nose pressed between the mattress and crib bumper pad. Kyle screamed for his wife, Laura.

“There’s no life in him,” he remembers telling her, as she sobbed hysterically, holding their son eight months ago.

Preston’s autopsy report said he suffocated after his face became wedged between the mattress and bumper pad, which wraps around the inside of a crib and ties to crib slats.

Unfortunately for American parents, this happens too often, and is too under reported. But is corporate greed and corruption keeping our babies in danger?

Besides Mission (which stands for Mothers Investigating Safe Sleeping Options for Newborns) there aren’t many organizations or advocates involves in spreading the message of the serious death danger crib bumpers pose to  babies.

When is the greed going to stop, and when are the government agencies going to get involved like they did with the big recalls of drop side cribs. A hand full of deaths, and the entire product has banned in the United States. When will we see the same treatment for crib bumpers?  How many more babies have to lose their lives before there is a mass recall, and ban?

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Yesterday the Chicago Tribune published an amazing article on the serious risks of traditional crib bumpers. Not only did it discuss infant death as a result of a bumper, but it also showed many statistics that parents typically are not aware of. Alarming numbers that consumer safety agencies have known about for year, yet crib bumpers are still on the list of must haves for nurseries nationwide.

For the end of the year, Go Mama Go Designs has slashed the cost of our safe wonder bumpers 50%!   We truly care about mothers, and their babies and want the safest sleep spaces for your babies!

Help us fight against unsafe sleep spaces for babies, and have traditional crib bumpers recalled once and for all!

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Dr. Sears says NO to crib bumper pads!
And you should too!

• Make sure crib bumpers fit snugly around the entire perimeter of the crib and are secured by at least six ties or snaps. To prevent your baby from chewing on the ties and becoming entangled in them, trim off excess length. Remove bumpers and toys from the crib as soon as the child begins to pull himself or herself up on the crib rails, because they can be used as steps for climbing over the rail.
• Don’t place breathing blockers in baby’s crib (or baby’s sleeping environment). These include anything that could obstruct baby’s breathing passages or collect dust (which is an irritant that can lead to stuffy little noses). Breathing hazards include: decorative pillows, fuzzy stuffed animals and toys, string-toys, tiny chokable toys, straps or ties on bumper pads.

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GoMamaGo Designs – Wonder Bumpers Review

GoMamaGo Designs generously sent me a set of Wonder Bumpers to review. If you took at look at my tour my home nursery post you will have already got a sneak peak at the bumpers I’m about to show you! I have 42 slats on my crib so I choose a 38 set of Blue Bird as it is very gender neutral and would look beautiful with my nursery theme. I then choose to have 6 in Lotus sent to add a splash of green into the scheme! The bumpers are beautiful and I was really impressed with how soft and nice they look and feel. They were also really easy to put on. They attach by zipper and the hardest part is just lining up the top part where the zipper attaches and then from there it’s just pull down and flip it around to wherever you want the zipper – the side or the back of the slat depending. I have the zippers facing the back wall on all 4 sides of the crib.

Each bumper is reversible so you get two patterns which each bumper so you can mix and match and make a really fun look! The Blue Bird set has solid white on the back and I choose to have them mostly just white so I didn’t have an overwhelming amount of print as my nursery does have quite a bit of decor already on the walls with the characters we painted. I mostly wanted bumpers to prevent my babies legs from getting stuck through the slats as I’ve had happen often and it always leaves them in pain so I put my 22 month old in and told him to kick like crazy to see what would happen. As you can see in the picture above he was able to kick his legs out through the slat still but wasn’t able to get his legs out past his knees, and not even very far down as they are at an angle in this picture. It also didn’t leave his legs sore and red like they would typically get and he was able to pull his legs back out himself as well. My newborn probably wouldn’t be able to pull their legs out, but at least they wouldn’t be in pain! I did notice that the Blue Bird set appeared a little bit dirty on the white side and when asking about this learned this has been a little bit of an issue just because they are pure white and so they show up dirt very easy. I also had one bumper with a small hole near the bottom seam and another that was very thin and nearing becoming a hole. I also had one with the zipper that went the wrong way. When I contact customer service about the issues though they were very quick to offer replacements and sent them right out to me without any hassle. GoMamaGo Designs strives to have very high customer service and they were very easy to work with when I did notice a problem.

GoMamaGo Designs is working on a petition to get unsafe crib bumpers off the market! They are looking for help in signing the petition to get the word out to the Consumer Product Safety Commission that the bumper market needs to be examined and tested to ensure safety for our children! You can sign the petition here!

You can find Wonder Bumpers at http://www.gomamagodesigns.com/!
You can use the code MWS15 for 15% off any purchase!

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Thanks to Janel at A Mom’s Take for this awesome review!

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Many of our readers, and followers may have heard us talking about our MISSION petition, and wondering what exactly that means. Now that the blog is up and running, and doing well I wanted to talk about MISSION and the crib bumper petition we are working on.  Currently stuck with just over 50 signatures, and looking to make it to 1000 before September.

This is where we need your help!  50 names on a petition may be a good amount, but it is not going to a large consumer safety organization to push in the direction we need to be moving.

So who is MISSION?  MISSION stands for Mothers Investigating Safe Sleep Options for Newborns. Something that we clearly need in our country since there are so many crib related injuries annually. Recently the Nap Nanny was re-called because of an infant death, when the culprit of the death was suffocation on the crib bumper.  The crib bumpers were not investigated or even cited in any publications as a hazard.

What is the petition about or include?  Per the Petition website :

“We the undersigned, alongside MISSION, Mothers Investigating Safe Sleep Options for Newborns, are urgently requesting parents, physicians, medical professionals, and our local government, all who have a vital interest in the well-being of America’s children, to call to action an investigation of traditional crib bumpers. Without your help, countless parents will unknowingly put their child at risk.

By signing this petition, you will help heighten awareness, increase interest in safe sleeping environments for babies, and most importantly express that traditional bumpers are dangerous, should not be used in a child’s crib and that the Consumer Product Safety Commission should take action to investigate the deaths caused by this product.”

Interested in getting involved or just signing the petition?
Visit this website to have your voice heard!

Today news spread across the internet like wild fire about the newest baby product recalled due to safety concerns. The Nap Nanny Infant Recliner was recalled voluntary, after a 4 month old baby girl in Michigan was found dead according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

“The CPSC said the girl who died was in the harness on the recliner but was found hanging over the side, stuck between a crib bumper and the Nap Nanny.”

Which poses the question of safety of crib bumpers again. Had the crib bumper never been applied onto the crib in question, would this little girl have been spared by the product being used incorrectly?

Which sparks the ongoing debate once again of why are traditional crib bumpers continuing to be used all over the world despite the number of deaths that are directly related annually to crib bumpers?

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