Is there anything more stressful than giving a baby their first bath? How about finding out that the baby bath you thought was going to make this whole experience easier had been recalled? Because sweet little babies were falling and fracturing their skulls? Yikes! We're there folks: popular baby bather maker Summer Infant has partnered up with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall more than 2 million baby baths.
At least seven children have been seriously hurt when the wire frame of the recalled bather suddenly disengaged from the side hinge, dropping the baby. In one case, the infant who fell was so badly hurt that he required intensive care for bleeding on the brain.
Want to know how to keep your baby safe? Here's everything you need to know about this recall:
1. The recalled baths include both those with two positions for baby and those with three positions. Each recalled bath has a small blue or pink base and a fabric seat with one of the following patterns: white, blue, green, yellow, and orange with fish, turtles, butterflies, frogs, flowers, and ducks.
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2. The recall involves the following model numbers: 08020, 08050, 08054, 08070, 08401, 08409, 08404, 08405, 08650, 08655, 08659, 08754, 08940, 08944, 38510, 38515, 18049, 18120, 18125, 18129, 18360, 18375, 18379, 18390, 38750, 38755, 18440, 18445, 18449, 18470, 18475, 18479, 18050, 08754, 18254, 18394, 18004. If your child's bather has one of these numbers, you may continue to use it as a bath. However, you should not try to carry the bath with the infant inside it.
3. These bathers were sold nationwide and in Canada from 2004 through 2011 at both online and store locations for around $15 to $30; however, retail locations will not be accepting returns or issuing refunds.
4. Contacting Summer Infant is the only means to rectify the situation. Because this is a "corrective action" recall, they will be issuing free locking straps to repair the bathers.
5. To get your free locking strap to repair the bath, call Summer Infant at 800-426-8627 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or fill out an online request form at their website.
Do you carry your baby in their bath? Has this ever been a problem for you?
Image via Consumer Product Safety Commission
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child. Regardless of what really happened there are innocent lives at stake and being seriously injured so I'm not blaming anyone.. Just hope these babies heal. ❤
there is absolutely no way that a baby could get those kind of Injuries just from that Item! how ridiculous! more likely the baby was left unattended and quite possibly in a high place like a counter!! omg....I have 4 daughters and could never afford something like that and I managed not to drown or injure all 4 of my babies....
This is ridiculous. If people would use the products in the capacity that they are supposed to be used in, there wouldn't be any problems. It explicitedly says that you should not carry your baby around in it... Just like the Bumbo seats say not to leave them on an elevated surface.. which, to me is common sense. Morons. Absolute morons.
Use the product correctly and you won't have any problems. I have this very same bather for my son once he was able to be put into water finally and have no problems with it whatsoever. He doesn't always get his bath in it either, its either that or he's in the tub with me. And I never pick up the bather with him in it, it is NOT SAFE! That simple. Follow the directions. Its not that hard.