CPSC Warns Against Placing Babies in Adult Beds; Study finds 64 deaths each year from suffocation and strangulation
Press Release # 99-175
Transcript
There is no audio for this video. The picture sequence is as follows:
- Screen reading: "B-roll"; "Co-sleeping hazard demonstration."
- Two dolls in a bed, big doll almost over little doll.
- Big doll pushing in to little doll.
- Close-up of little doll.
- Close-up of big doll pushing in to little doll.
- Both dolls close together.
- Close-up of dolls close together.
- Side view of dolls close together.
- Small doll face close to big doll.
- Side of big doll.
- Close-up of side of doll faces.
- Far view of dolls in bed.
- Screen reading: "Suffocation where an infant becomes entrapped or wedged in various structures of the bed. A total of 394 deaths resulted from suffocation or strangulation in this way. Entrapments occurred between the mattress and the wall, bed frame, bed railings or adjacent furniture."
- Screen reading: "B-roll"; "Various entrapment hazard demonstrations."
- Baby doll near the wall.
- Close-up of baby doll on its stomach.
- View of doll appearing to fall off the bed.
- Far side view on baby doll on bed.
- View of bed.
- Baby doll wedged between bed and chest of drawers.
- Close-up of baby doll.
- Baby doll wedged between mattress and board.
- Baby doll wedged between mattress and side.
- Baby doll's head stuck in between the slats of the bed.
- Close-up of baby doll hanging from its head in the slats in the bed.
- Side view baby doll hanging from its head in the slats in the bed.
- Screen reading: "CPSC recommends that you not sleep with your baby. Put your baby to sleep on his/her back in a bassinet or crib that meets safety standards, and has a firm, tight-fitting mattress with no soft bedding."
- End