Another Million Crib Recalls
Ah, yes, another crib recall. Eight of them, actually, and they’re just the latest in a long, long line. Look, here’s the deal. If you’ve got a crib of any kind made by anyone. anywhere, check for...
View ArticleRECALL: Pottery Barn Cribs
All righty, campers, in today’s baby crib recall news … Pottery Barn Kids just recalled 82,000 drop-side cribs to the usual round-up of ghastly hazards – entrapment, suffocation and falls. In this...
View ArticleRECALL: Choking Pacifiers
The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission just recalled 45,000 of these cheap Karino Baby Pacifiers, sold for 25 cents each, because they violate pretty much every safety standard for pacifiers....
View ArticleRECALL: 30K Nap Nannies
The federal consumer safety folks and Baby Matters just issued a recall for 30,000 Nap Nanny Recliners in the wake of the death of a 4-month-old girl from Michigan. The baby was napping in the...
View ArticleTWILIGHT Baby Names
Ahem. Apparently more than 8,000 parents gave their lovely little infants “Twilight” names last year. Yep, they’re naming their progeny after characters in Stephanie Meyer’s vampire series. Bella is...
View ArticleU.S. Circumcision Rates Down
Interesting story in the New York Times on Monday about a dramatic drop in circumcision rates in the U.S. According to a CDC researcher who spoke at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna last...
View ArticlePREGNANCY WEIGHT: How Much is Too Much?
Every pregnant mom wants the best for her baby, but how much weight gain is “normal”? My colleague, Jessica Yadegaran, explores that topic in this morning’s Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times, and...
View ArticleMore Recalls: 40,000 Cribs
Letting your baby sleep in a box on the floor is beginning to sound like a good idea. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission just recalled another slew of baby cribs, including 34,000 Heritage...
View ArticleFeds release new crib safety standards
It’s no secret that these have been a bad couple of years for baby cribs. Eleven million drop-side cribs have been recalled since 2007, after hundreds of injuries and 32 fatal accidents in which babies...
View ArticleFat Babies? An Obesity Epidemic Among Infants
Fascinating story in this morning’s paper by my colleague, Jessica Yadegaran, about the rising epidemic of obesity among infants. Yup, those dimpled cheeks and chubby thighs have gone far beyond what’s...
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