Baby Furniture Safety Alert!

Baby Furniture - Mattresses May Not Be Safe!

Baby furniture shopping can be a delightful experience. Anticipating your new baby's arrival, you spend a lot of time looking for just the right baby furniture.

Baby furniture selection presents a myriad of choices. Of course safety is an important consideration when choosing baby furniture. You may feel reassured knowing that all mattresses are treated with fire retardants. The manufacturers say these chemicals will protect babies in the event of a fire. But did you know that the chemicals used in fire retardants could cause a baby to die from crib death (SIDS)?

Dr. Jim Sprott, OBE, a New Zealand scientist and chemist, states with certainty that crib death is caused by toxic gases, which can be generated from a baby's mattress. Chemical compounds containing phosphorus, arsenic and antimony have been added to mattresses as fire retardants and for other purposes since the early 1950's. A fungus that commonly grows in bedding can interact with these chemicals to create poisonous gases. These heavier-than-air gases are concentrated in a thin layer on the baby's mattress or are diffused away and dissipated into the surrounding atmosphere. If a baby breathes or absorbs a lethal dose of the gases, the central nervous system shuts down, stopping breathing and then heart function. These gases can fatally poison a baby, without waking the sleeping baby and without any struggle by the baby. A normal autopsy would not reveal any sign that the baby was poisoned.

In spite of denial and opposition from orthodox SIDS organizations, no research has disproved this gaseous poisoning explanation for crib death. No valid criticism of this explanation has ever been provided. This logical finding explains every factor already known about crib death, and is backed by scientific research and almost eight years of practical proof consisting of a crib death prevention campaign that continues in New Zealand. continued...