FDA says throw out infant positioner

Today, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement telling parents not to use this popular product because babies can suffocate.







The governmental agencies have received 12 reports of deaths involving babies who have suffocated in a sleep positioner or became trapped and suffocated between a sleep positioner and the side of a crib or bassinet. The babies were between 1 month and 4 months old. Most suffocated after rolling from a side to a stomach position.






“The deaths and dangerous situations resulting from the use of infant sleep positioners are a serious concern…” says CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. “We urge parents and caregivers to take our warning seriously and stop using these sleep positioners, so that children can have a safer sleep.”

“To date, there is no scientifically sound evidence that infant sleep positioners prevent SIDS,” says Dr. Joshua Sharfstein, FDA Principal Deputy Commissioner and a pediatrician. “We want to make sure parents, health care professionals, and childcare providers understand the potential risk of suffocation and stop using infant sleep positioners.”







Many parents use these products to help their kids fall asleep. They create a snuggly environment, which babies like because it reminds them of being held or even of what it was like in the womb. Also, some product manufacturers claim the positioners prevent flat head syndrome (plagiocephaly) and aid in food digestion to ease colic or the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).






CPSC and the FDA are telling parents and child care providers to:






STOP using sleep positioners. Using a positioner to hold an infant on his or her back or side for sleep is dangerous and unnecessary.


NEVER put pillows, infant sleep positioners, comforters, or quilts under a baby or in a crib.


ALWAYS place an infant on his or her back at night and during nap time. To reduce the risk of SIDS, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends placing infants to sleep on their backs and not their sides.

information provided by The Baby Center

Sunflowers and Coffee

So here we are once again. I must say where the inspiration for my Seed and Bean came from and is now headed. Seed and Bean first started out as a brain child in my head for a wholistic vegetarian/vegan book store here in Alabama. Well as my Seed and Bean grew so has the dream!Sunflower Seeds and Coffee beans is going online. WE will launch very soon to see how you all take to the idea of having books from African/African in America authors, natural products from venders that are personal to my heart such as Mocha Mango and Devine Khemistry as well as others. I hope to be launching at the end of the month as we have to get the site just right. I'm very excited to see what happens and watch my dream become a reality. IT is very important to me that we offer something well known but unique in its character.

If all goes well I hope to launch the food and beverage portion of the business soon after (end of the year first of January). I thank you for your continued support in hopes that Sunflower Seeds and Coffee Beans is a great and humble sucess!

Blessings in love

Empress

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Finding Center

Greetings on what has become quite the beautiful day family. I have found that being a mother has its ups and well more ups! I smile at the thought of my little ones growing. What will they become, who will they be, and can I properly pass on my values to them? It's funny that thing called value. I value family. And although I may make some decisions and choices along the way that may not be quite so the actions of an "empress" I"m still standing on the square of family.

It means the world to me to know that I have a strong support system in place. MY seed and bean will grow strong and healthy, mentally and physically and most important, spiritually and emotionally because they have a strong family. I have a new raspect for my mother. She has shown me the ways of motherhood and for that I'm eternally greatful. To all the mothers that have lended advice and counsel, strength and encouragement I thank you. I don't know if I could have made it through this pregnancy or birth and now into nursing among other things without the guidance of those who've done it before me.

It's a strange thing being a mother. You can't prepare or read a book for what is to come you just have to learn on the job literally! But I smile every morning with my seed and bean and prepare myself mentally for the journey of parenthood!

Blessed love family
from the EMpress (Seed and Bean)
Look out for http://www.seedsandbeans.com/ soon to come