The American Academy of Pediatrics recently sent a letter to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission expressing their concern over the risks posed by infants using weighted blankets. According to ...

SEATTLE — A warning for parents and caregivers: Stop using weighted sleep products for babies. The American Academy of Pediatrics strongly warns that weighted baby blankets, swaddles and sleep sacks ...

The maker of one of the most popular weighted sleep sacks on the market is suing the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Last week, several retailers like Target and Amazon announced they were no ...

The country’s largest association of pediatricians is warning that a product designed to help infants sleep more soundly could be deadly. The makers of weighted swaddles and sleep sacks liken them to ...

Thankfully, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDs) declined in the 1990s, in part due to the Safe Sleep Campaign launched by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which urged parents to put infants down on ...

Doctors are warning parents against buying the baby sleep sack, a weighted swaddle blanket designed for infants. In a major public service announcement, pediatricians say the blanket, which is meant ...

The baby had also been set down on an infant lounger, a pillow-like product that can pose a suffocation and asphyxiation risk. The brand of sleep sack wasn’t listed on the report. Dreamland Baby and ...