Medical experts and federal regulators have argued that the weighted infant sleepwear poses a health risk to babies, while some companies selling the products claim they help babies fall asleep.
Amazon, Target, and Walmart are among retailers that will no longer sell weighted sleepwear over safety fears. These retailers decided to pull the merchandise from their stores amid warnings from federal regulators, medical experts, and safe-sleep advocates about the risks of products like swaddles and sleep sacks with additional weight, NPR reported.An Amazon spokesperson tells FOX Television Stations, "Infant sleep products in the Amazon store.
"We work hard to ensure the products offered in our store are safe, and we have teams dedicated to developing and updating our policies, evaluating listings, and continuously monitoring our store to prevent unsafe and noncompliant products from being listed."Walmart tells FOX Television Stations that the retailer hasn’t carried weighted infant sleepwear items for almost a year. FOX Television Stations also reached out to Target for comment.
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