Samantha Breen, a press representative for Dreamland Baby, told CR that “The AAP’s position against wearable weighted products is not supported by scientific evidence, including product testing,” and that the company urged the AAP to reconsider its stance. Nested Bean told CR that the company values AAP’s input but that its own research and its “experience of more than a decade on the market show that Nested Bean’s minimally weighted infant sleepwear products are safe and effective.” In several public meetings with the CPSC in the past week, Nested Bean’s president and founder, Manasi Gangan, said that the study used weights of different hefts and that while the heavier ones may have caused concern, the Nested Bean weight did not. The researchers concluded that placing the weights on babies for longer periods of time-such as overnight-may pose the potential for both fatigue and a decline of oxygen “into unsafe levels.” The unpublished study (which wasn’t peer-reviewed) involved five babies who were observed for up to 2 minutes at a time while awake. Nested Bean commissioned its own study, which involved incrementally increasing the weight of an object on the chest of babies from newborn to 6 months old. And the AAP, in its warning letter last month, noted that “There is no evidence in the peer-reviewed scientific literature evaluating the safety of weighted sleep products on typical, healthy infants, and there is also nothing published regarding their use in an unmonitored setting.” The Dreamland Baby website points to a clinical trial as evidence that its products are safe.īut that study looked at infants who wore the swaddles for only 30-minute-long sessions and were under constant supervision. This is the same blanket-to-user weight ratio that’s typically used for weighted blankets for adults. “The CPSC continues to urge parents to shop carefully and consult with their pediatrician before buying any product that claims to improve baby health or help with sleep.”īoth Nested Bean and Dreamland Baby offer swaddles they say are safe for newborns, and both use weights that are no more than 10 percent as heavy as the weight of the baby they are intended for. “We are aware of AAP’s concerns regarding weighted blankets and appreciate the safe sleep guidance these doctors are providing,” the spokesperson told CR. The agency has been collecting information in its ongoing examination of wearable blankets. The CPSC, a federal agency responsible for ensuring that consumers are protected from dangerous products, has become aware of at least one report of a fatality involving a weighted infant product, a spokesperson said on Monday. “People assume that if something is on the market, somebody has deemed it safe,” she says, but that’s not the case in the U.S. “There’s no regulation of these,” says Rachel Moon, MD, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and the chair of the AAP’s task force on sudden infant death syndrome. Last month the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) said in a letter to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that these weighted products should never be used for babies. That’s raising alarm among pediatricians and many product safety experts, including those at Consumer Reports, who say that these products are being sold with no safety standards in place and little to no evidence that they’re safe. Weighted blankets have become popular with adults suffering from insomnia or anxiety, who say that the product’s comforting pressure makes sleep come more easily.īut some companies, including Nested Bean and Dreamland Baby, are now marketing weighted sleep products-including wearable blankets and swaddles-for babies, even newborns.
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