Recent research from a number of health agencies and SIDS awareness groups suggest that the risks associated with using a bumper pad on your infant's crib far exceeds any benefits. With the changes that have been made in cribs, specificly the distance between the side rail slats, it is no longer beneficial to use a bumper pad. Parents often used them to keep their child's head, arms or legs from getting stuck inbetween the rails when the rails were farther apart. However, the most recent studies have suggested that there is some risk for suffocation associated with the use of bumper pads.
Since there seems to currently be no benefit to using bumper pads, outside of the fact that they are decoratively pleasing, and it increases the risk that your child could suffocate, please stop using them. Eventhough the risk is quite small, don't put your child at risk at all. Take off the bumper pad right now. Don't wait.
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