Amby Baby Beds Recalled After Suffocation Deaths

Posted on December 14, 2009 in Consumer Goods, Health & Medicine, Parenting, Recalls

Two infant deaths have prompted the recall of Amby Baby Motion Beds, manufactured by Amby Baby in Minneapolis, Minn. The side-to-side shifting or tilting of the hammock can cause a baby to become entrapped in the hammock’s fabric, posing a suffocation hazard.

Amby Baby is aware of two infants suffocating this summer in Georgia and Oregon. The Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled about 24,000 of the beds, which were sold online at Ambybaby.com and other Internet retailers for around $250. Consumers should immediately stop using the beds and contact Amby Baby USA for a free repair kit. Amby’s website says the kit will not be available until January 2010 at the earliest.

The hammock-like beds were marketed to parents of babies with colic or reflux. Every time a child stirs in his sleep, the bed gently moves up and down, or side to side. Health officials say that babies are safest in cribs or bassinets with a firm bottom support and no soft bedding where they could easily become entangled.