Not exact matches
The incidents of infants dying while «co-sleeping» with adults, as documented by the CPSC, include the following: children getting trapped between the
bed and the
wall, or the
bed and another object; entrapment that involves footboards or
bed frames; soft
bedding - related hazards, such as suffocation on a pillow; falls, sometimes into a pile of clothing or
plastic, resulting in suffocation; a child or adult accidentally lying on top of the baby.
A small proportion of our co sleeping deaths are horrible accidents that in retrospect could maybe have been prevented (in this group I include babies who fall down the gap between the
bed and the
wall and get wedged and become asphyxiated, or a baby who rolled out of
bed and landed head first into a waste paper basket that had been lined with a
plastic bag, or a baby who had been put up on the pillows but had slipped down the gap between the two pillows at the top of the
bed and the pillows then moved over her face due to the parents shifting position.
Two electrical harnesses comes out of the back
wall to the
bed in
plastic wrap and after 4 inch loop running inside the sideboard chanels.
Two high - impact
plastic lockers, with lids and lights fit inside the
bed alongside each cargo
wall.
Enclosures should be made of wire
walls and a
plastic / metal bottom to hold
bedding, which needs to be spot - cleaned every day and completely replaced at the end of every week.
The solid
walls of aquariums and
plastic condos are better at containing the mess of
bedding that can be kicked or pushed out of wire cages.
There's nothing palatial about a cell with a lino floor, a set of bunk
beds with
plastic - covered mattresses, and a shower, toilet and sink along the other
wall.