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 ...

Getting a baby to sleep more than a few hours at a stretch each night is a major goal for most new parents. And when your infant is restless, and no one is sleeping, you might be wondering if there’s ...

Read the original article on Purewow. One Amazon reviewer—who purchased the weighted blanket—writes “My toddler was having a lot of trouble sleeping and staying in one place in their bed. Not only ...

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 ...

From pacifiers to white noise machines, there is a bevy of products marketed toward notoriously tired new parents that claim to calm babies and help them sleep better. Among some of the newer ...

(WJAR) — Weighted sleep sacks are marketed as a tool to help your baby fall asleep and stay asleep. But organizations like the American Academy of Pediatrics say they are dangerous and should be ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Many exhausted parents rely on weighted sleep products to help their little ones rest. Companies say they can help babies fall asleep and sleep longer. This was the kind of relief Alyssa ...

Update: In August 2024, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) introduced a bill that would ban weighted sleep products for infants and categorize them as "banned hazardous products" under the Consumer ...