Fisher Price Rock n Play Sleeper

[nannyde]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/pediatricians-urge-recall-fisher-price-rock-play-sleeper/story?id=62296388

I hope they ban them. I have had kids who sleep in them at night until they physically outgrow them. They can't sleep on a firm surface without rocking.

I'm surprised Fisher Price just gets to call it an inclined sleeper instead of a swing. I seriously wouldn't be surprised if this item isn't their number one best seller.

Now that this has come out, I imagine there will be lawsuits. It will take lawsuits to get them to stop making them.

The warning not to use over three months is so ridiculous. Parents don't follow that. If they wanted that they would size them down to the point where they wouldn't fit after three months.

[Leigh]

I love the Rock and Play at daycare-I use it to take the newborns with me into the kitchen while making lunch, or to sit them next to me while I do paperwork, or even to take them into the bathroom with me. It makes it so much easier for me to keep them safe and close to me. I just can't believe that any parent would be stupid enough to use it as a crib! It is so obviously NOT safe for that! I agree that banning them would stop rock and play deaths, but those stupid enough to put their kids in them at night will just find another way to endanger their kids so that they (the parents) can sleep, rather than tending to newborns overnight.

[Ariana]

So many parents encourage other parents to engage in these unsafe behaviors. I have seen people recommend certain carseats because they are better for sleeping No one thinks it will happen to them.

And 32 deaths in 7 years? Why did this recall take so long to enact?

[Blackcat31]

I can't find it right now but there was just a thread on here about how great the Rock N Play is/was.... I was surprised at how many providers talked it up like it was the golden ticket to sleep. From what I recall most of it was in reference to their own child but still...

[storybookending]

I love the Rock and Play at daycare-I use it to take the newborns with me into the kitchen while making lunch, or to sit them next to me while I do paperwork, or even to take them into the bathroom with me. It makes it so much easier for me to keep them safe and close to me. I just can't believe that any parent would be stupid enough to use it as a crib! It is so obviously NOT safe for that! I agree that banning them would stop rock and play deaths, but those stupid enough to put their kids in them at night will just find another way to endanger their kids so that they (the parents) can sleep, rather than tending to newborns overnight.

I use one for daycare too for this reason and also as an extra place during outdoors time but not while they are sleeping. My niece slept in one exclusively and my SIL is going to be better about not even introducing this to their newborn in a few months after seeing this report (so she says). So many infants that I personally know slept in them until they outgrew them, especially since coming out with the ones that self rock!

[Cat Herder]

I doubt I even have to complete a sentence here for everyone to know my opinion.

[LostMyMarbles]

My new baby, the 30 minute nap king, has one at home FOR NIGHT TIME SLEEPING. Mom brought me one and I never brought it in from the garage. I sent it home Monday. I encouraged mom to stop using the one at home. Mom said when he starts to roll over, she will. She posted video of him rolling over at 2.5 months.

If I knew how to inset a face palm thing I would here . Tee hee hee.

[Mom2Two]

Providers here are talking about it, and they feel like it must have not been used properly. They are saying that the straps would prevent a baby from rolling over.

Thoughts?

[Blackcat31]

Infant equipment (any of it) is the second worst thing ever invented.

Battery operated swings
Vibrating chairs
Bouncy seats
Bumbo chairs
Jump-a-roos
Rock N Play

What's the point of any of them anyways?
To occupy a baby so the parent doesn't have to?
So the baby isn't left to figure out how to occupy themselves? *gasp*

What's wrong with the good old floor when not in an adult caregiver's arms?

[Pestle]

Infant equipment (any of it) is the second worst thing ever invented.

Battery operated swings
Vibrating chairs
Bouncy seats
Bumbo chairs
Jump-a-roos
Rock N Play

What's the point of any of them anyways?
To occupy a baby so the parent doesn't have to?
So the baby isn't left to figure out how to occupy themselves? *gasp*

What's wrong with the good old floor when not in an adult caregiver's arms?

You left the flight-of-stairs descension device, er, sorry, the baby walker, off the list. At least that one's a distant memory in the US.

[hwichlaz]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/pediatrici...ry?id=62296388

I hope they ban them. I have had kids who sleep in them at night until they physically outgrow them. They can't sleep on a firm surface without rocking.

I'm surprised Fisher Price just gets to call it an inclined sleeper instead of a swing. I seriously wouldn't be surprised if this item isn't their number one best seller.

Now that this has come out, I imagine there will be lawsuits. It will take lawsuits to get them to stop making them.

The warning not to use over three months is so ridiculous. Parents don't follow that. If they wanted that they would size them down to the point where they wouldn't fit after three months.

But it doesn't swing, so it's not a swing right? it's a rocker/recliner. I had one until it wore out. Not the self-rocking kind though. It was a great place for a little one that didn't yet have head control to hang out and watch me make lunch.

[hwichlaz]

Infant equipment (any of it) is the second worst thing ever invented.

Battery operated swings
Vibrating chairs
Bouncy seats
Bumbo chairs
Jump-a-roos
Rock N Play

What's the point of any of them anyways?
To occupy a baby so the parent doesn't have to?
So the baby isn't left to figure out how to occupy themselves? *gasp*

What's wrong with the good old floor when not in an adult caregiver's arms?

I love bumbos. They give babies another perspective and make awesome highchairs for wiggly skinny twins LOLOL.

[nannyde]

Infant equipment (any of it) is the second worst thing ever invented.

Battery operated swings
Vibrating chairs
Bouncy seats
Bumbo chairs
Jump-a-roos
Rock N Play

What's the point of any of them anyways?
To occupy a baby so the parent doesn't have to?
So the baby isn't left to figure out how to occupy themselves? *gasp*

What's wrong with the good old floor when not in an adult caregiver's arms?

I like bouncy seats but only the OLD school ones with the flat wide trays surrounded by a lip with attached toys and real estate to put a bunch of baby toys on. I like to rotate toys so they always have something new. They ones from the late nineties are awesome. Really nice for that age group of six to nine months when they wear out after a while on the floor and when getting kids dressed for outdoors. They are deep meaning the distance from the crotch to the base of the exersaucer is long enough that you can adjust it so that it fits the leg length of the baby as it grows so it can flat foot the base but not slam the seat to bounce. The new ones have bubbly tops where you can't put a bunch of baby toys on it and they are very shallow. Useless.

I like swings but the old school ones with the high arch and deep seats with trays. I like them for the first few days of having a newborn to four to five months when they are so stressed from being away from the parents and when they are motion addicted. I use them for short periods of time for a few days and then once the baby is used to me it's flat floor or infant seats (old school too). They go back in storage until the next baby comes along. I ALWAYS have the baby within eyeshot in swings and ANY containment equipment except play yards. With play yards it's a check in every few minutes if it's not in the play room.

I don't use the bumbo seats and HATE jumparoos. I've never had a rock n play because they came out when I found out about positional asphyxiation. I have had staff assistants that like the bumbo for feeding when the bumbo is on the floor. I've never used them myself.

I've had SO many motion addicted babies that I use the swings just for a few transition days. If they fall asleep in it they immediately come out. I only use them AFTER naps.

The jolly jumpers addicts are SO hard to take care of. I always ask if they have one at home so I know it will take weeks before the kid gets used to gravity.

[storybookending]

Infant equipment (any of it) is the second worst thing ever invented.

But what is first?!?

You left the flight-of-stairs descension device, er, sorry, the baby walker, off the list. At least that one's a distant memory in the US.

Why do people say this? Are they supposed to be outlawed here or something? Bc they deff still have them in store by me. :confused:

[Blackcat31]

You left the flight-of-stairs descension device, er, sorry, the baby walker, off the list. At least that one's a distant memory in the US.

Walmart and several other stores still sell baby walkers
Complete with wheels etc... the only safety feature they seem to have added is the ability to stop the wheels from being used but they’re still sold in stores...

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Cosco-Simple-Steps-Baby-Walker-Monster-Syd/48303778?wmlspartner=wlpa&adid=22222222227037253497&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=t&wl3=84926194952&wl4=pla-166495977872&wl5=9019748&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=48303778&wl13=&veh=sem&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm4674tXI4QIVDD0MCh3IywKhEAQYBiABEgIUoPD_BwE