The only way my three kids would sleep at night was in one of these. Probably acid reflux, but it’s a bummer these are getting recalled. I don’t really understand how a child could suffocate in a rock and play any more so than in a traditional crib.
I suspect it is truly less safe for parents to be critically sleep deprived than for a baby to sleep in one of these. Especially in the first couple months when you're driving to the doctor all the time. Are there statistics on car accidents including infants due to sleep deprivation? Or even just injuries due to dropping babies when sleep deprived? I suspect it would be hard to gather these because parents don't like to acknowledge (even to themselves) how much the sleep deprivation is affecting them.
Hell, murder-suicides while sleep deprived.
Ours had mesh sides which I think would allow breathing even if the baby managed to roll, so I'm not 100% what the dangerous scenario that triggered the recall could be.
With the first one we had to switch doctors to finally get one who'd listen to us (no, shrieking like they're on fire when you lay them down or hold them in the wrong position, and starting to drink from a bottle, then shrieking for a bit, then taking some more, then shrieking for a bit is not normal kid fussiness and we are not being oversensitive first-time parents, you asshole) so that one'd burned their throat quite raw by the time we got ahold of the medicine, but things got way better in a matter of days anyway. Knew what to look for with the other second one who had it, got it taken care of fast, and damn was that easier. Practically an instant fix, in that case, without all the weeks of accumulated damage. A++++ would reach for meds at the first sign of reflux again. Those few weeks without on the first one were... very bad. Very, very bad.
We used the Rock N' Play for several months then got a foam wedge that goes under an infant mattress (which frankly didn't work too well, they'd roll down the hill).
> We used the Rock N' Play for several months then got a foam wedge that goes under an infant mattress (which frankly didn't work too well, they'd roll down the hill).
I'm having a really fun time imagining the scene when you realized it was doing this :-)
After a lot of back and forth, and difficult times, we eventually determined that he actually has FPIES, and was having issues with cow's milk. My wife cut it from her diet completely (i.e. won't even have processed products that have milk ingredients in them), and his reflux, spitting up, eczema, and tantrums while nursing disappeared.
I mention this because it's a super obscure and rare issue, and if some new parent reads this comment, it might save them some aggravation.
It's more common than many people think - up to 15% of infants, which is almost 1 in 6.
I'm not sure how large a factor that was compared with just the medicine. The medicine was enough with the other one who had it. If you're managing to do all breast feeding some of the other posts here mention cutting dairy (and soy? One of them says) from the mother's diet helped a lot.
Good luck :-/
Once you get past this, 6-18mo is a great time.