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6th baby death blamed on Nap Nanny

This undated image provided by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) shows a Nap Nanny baby recliner. Four national retailers agreed to recall more than 150,000 Nap Nanny baby recliners after at least five infant deaths and dozens of reports of children nearly falling out of the recliners, the CPSC said Thursday. The recall covers Nap Nanny Generations One and Two, and the Chill model infant recliners. All were sold between 2009 and 2012. The Nap Nanny was designed to mimic the curves of a baby car seat, elevating an infant slightly to help reduce reflux, gas, stuffiness or other problems. (AP Photo/CPSC)

Parents are being urged again to stop using their Nap Nannys.

The product is being blamed for a sixth baby death, this time in Hopatcong, N.J., where an 8-month-old girl secured by a belt was found partly hanging over the side of a Nap Nanny recliner, trapped between the product and a crib bumper.

The Consumer Product Safety Commision says deaths occur two ways:

<li>The baby partly falls or hangs over the side of a Nap Nanny and gets trapped between the product and crib bumpers;</li> <li>The baby suffocates on the inside of the Nap Nanny.</li>

The product was voluntarily recalled last year.

According to the CPSC, from 2009 to June 2013, there were at least 92 incident reports involving the Nap Nanny and Nap Nanny Chill products.

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