Ban on some cribs considered

In the News: The baby crib became a death trap for 6-month-old Bobby Cirigliano. The side rail on his drop-side crib slid off the tracks and trapped his head; his face pressed against the mattress, the boy suffocated. Bobby was one of at least 32 infants and toddlers since 2000 who suffocated or were strangled in a drop-side crib. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has pledged to ban the manufacture and sale of drop-side cribs by the end of the year with a new performance standard that would make fixed-side cribs mandatory. For more information please visiit: www.cpsc.gov/info/cribs/recalls.html