(NEXSTAR) – Retail giants Amazon and Walmart, among others, have stopped selling weighted infant sleep products over safety fears.
Weighted sleep sacks and swaddles purportedly help the child sleep more soundly – and the parents too – but experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and various government bodies warn against using them.
“These products are associated with concerning reductions in oxygen saturation levels in infants,” Richard L. Trumka Jr., commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), said in a statement. “This means…
