Amazon is recalling approximately 500,000 products including baby loungers, power banks, portable fans, dressers, crib mobiles, and kids' helmets due to safety hazards such as fire risks, suffocation, and injury, with customers advised to stop using affected items and follow refund procedures.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced recalls of over 500,000 Amazon-distributed products including power banks, dressers, fans, baby tools, and helmets due to fire, tip-over, and safety hazards, with recommended alternatives and safety tips provided.
This article provides a list of 21 products that can help tired parents get more sleep. The products include a snot sucker, vapor drops, bug bite suction tool, moisturizing cream for eczema, organic baby healing balm, mattress wedge, touchless forehead thermometer, stick-on gel pads, glow-in-the-dark pacifiers, swaddle, toilet night-lights, portable white noise machine, Baby Shusher, sleep-training alarm clock, portable vibrating pad, Rockit Rocker, door cushion, diaper booster pads, waterproof protective pad, doormat, and a "Baby sleeping" sign. These products aim to address common sleep-related issues faced by parents and provide solutions to help both babies and parents sleep better.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives has sent letters to 17 companies, including Meta's Facebook, questioning their compliance with U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) standards regarding the sale of recalled baby products. The lawmakers expressed concern over the continued listing of unsafe products on Facebook, which puts users and their children at risk. The CPSC has requested thousands of takedowns per month from Meta for the recalled Boppy Newborn Lounger. The issue has also raised questions about how major online retailers like Amazon, Walmart, and Target handle the sale of recalled or unsafe items. The companies have been given nine days to respond to the letters.
Buybuy Baby, the largest specialty baby-product retailer in the US, is likely to survive as its parent company, Bed Bath & Beyond, goes under. The company is expected to be sold as part of Bed Bath & Beyond's bankruptcy reorganization, with interest already coming from outside suitors. Despite lackluster financial performance, buybuy Baby is the last baby-specific retailer standing after the 2018 failure of Babies R Us and is well-positioned to capitalize on the healthy growth of the baby retail segment.
Target is hosting its semi-annual car seat trade-in event between April 16-29 where customers can bring in a used car seat in any condition for recycling and receive a 20% off coupon added within the Target app or Target Circle webpage to buy a new car seat or other baby products. The used car seats will be recycled to create new products, such as plastic buckets and materials used for construction.