For our babies, we would want them to get the best comfort wherever they may be sleeping like portacots. This includes placing additional foams, mattresses and pillows to get that soft sleeping position that babies are bound to love.

But while the intent is good, they can also be a threat. Babies do not have the same strength that adults may have and just in case, suffocation once these additional mattresses fall on them unknowingly.

Association executive director Tim Wain said he was alarmed by the findings of a Monash University Accident Research Centre study that suggested one in three people used additional padding with their portacots, unaware of the dangers to children.

“When you apply an additional mattress … it creates a gap that the child can roll into and because the sides of the portacot are flexible they can’t lift themselves out and suffocate,” he said.

(Source) Couriermail

Tags: adults, babies, foams, Mattress, mattresses, padding, pillows, suffocation hazard

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 at 6:22 pm and is filed under BED Kids, BED News, Baby, Bed Designs, Crib.
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