PERSONAL: New TV Show Up All Night

Am about to watch the new baby show Up All Night with Christina Applegate (whom I LOVE), will give a full review tomorrow. I think it's gonna pretty much hit the nail on the head though from what I've seen in previews. :)

NEWS: Stronger Crib Standards May Cause SMBs Financial Loss

While I feel for the small businesses (SMBs) out there selling cribs no longer deemed safe by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, I can't argue that it is for the best.

See back in Dec. 2010, the CPSC voted to put very high safety standards on cribs sold in this country, making drop-side cribs illegal and creating overall more structurally sound cribs. The Commission put a June 28 deadline on companies, large and small, to get rid of their older, less safe cribs.

Now, some SMBs are having a hard time selling their older cribs and some are looking for an extension to the June 28 deadline. But the commission is not having it and so it looks like about 100,000 cribs may have to be trashed if they are not sold by the deadline.

I feel for those SMBs losing out on the already-hard-to-get dollars in this economy, but seriously, I can't feel too bad. The CPSC is doing a great thing by making sure more infants will be safe in their beds while they sleep (or don't). There has to be a deadline and it has to be enforced or it'll just drag on. So to the CPSC, I say kudos to you and thanks for helping all us parents rest a little easier in our own beds.

Read the CPSC Chairman's statement here.

RECALL: Arm's Reach Concepts Infant Bed-Side Sleepers

Ten infants have fallen while in these co-sleeper units, reported the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Arm's Reach. The infants fell from the raised mattress of the sleeper into the bottom and some of them became trapped between the edge of the mattress and the side of the bed-side sleeper. Thankfully, none of the babies were hurt from the falls.

The CPSC warns parents to "immediately stop using the recalled bed-side sleepers and visit www.armsreach.com/instructions to view and download assembly instructions and to make sure that the product is properly configured."

For more information on this and other recalls, visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission's site.

For more on this and other recalls visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission site.