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Researchers Call for Ban on Crib Bumpers

In a case of the solution truly being worse than the problem it was designed to solve, pediatric researchers have found that the risks posed by infant crib bumpers far outweigh any perceived benefits of the devices and that they have no place in an infant’s crib.

Placed around the inside of a baby’s crib, the soft, padded bumpers are designed to prevent impacts, such as those from the baby’s head, on a crib’s vertical slats. Proponents of the devices also ...

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