The Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday they know of 12 infants in the last 13 years who died when they suffocated in a positioner or became trapped and suffocated between the positioner and the side of a crib.
The infants were between the ages of one month and four months.
Most of the babies suffocated after rolling from a side to stomach position.
CPSC has also received dozens of reports of infants who were placed on their backs or sides in sleep positioners and later found in potentially dangerous position in or next to the sleep positioners.
So, here's what the CPSC is telling parents to do:
STOP using sleep positioners.
NEVER put pillows, infant sleep positioners, comforters, or quilts under a baby or in a crib.
ALWAYS place an infant on his or her back at night and during nap time.
LINK: Deaths prompt CPSC, FDA warning on infant sleep positioners
