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The consumer stated that despite using this swaddle pajamas correctly, her baby is able to get her hands and arms out of the swaddle in sleep due to the material becoming stretched out. She found the horizontal material pushed up around her neck and covering her mouth.

Product Details

Product Description: Summer Infant SwaddleMe Stage 2 Baby size small/medium - cotton (sweet trees - 2 pack)
Manufacturer/Importer/Private Labeler Name: Summer Infant
Brand Name: SwaddleMe
Model Name or Number:
Serial Number: 74320
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Date Manufactured:
Retailer: Target.com
Retailer State:
Purchase Date: 11/24/2014
Product Category: Furniture, Furnishings & Decorations
Product Type: Bedroom, Bedding & Bath
Product Code: Nonelectric Blankets (4008)

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Incident Details

Incident Description: Product: Summer Infant SwaddleMe Stage 2 Baby size small/medium. The swaddle pajamas were being used as intended with the correct size and age of a baby, and followed the directions of how to [fastener] them snugly on the baby. After using the swaddle for 4 weeks, our baby would get her hands and then arms out of the swaddle due to the material becoming stretched out from normal use. The hazard was due to when she would wiggle, the stretched out material/swaddle would wiggle up towards her head, giving her hands access to the opening of where the vertical leg sack material and the horizontal material parts meet. She would stick both of her hands out, then would pull her arms up towards her face in her sleep. I would find her like this asleep, and the horizontal material would be all pushed and squished up around her neck and partially or completely covering her mouth (still able to breathe out of her nose luckily). Thinking I was not swaddling her tight enough, I would continue to try using the product, but this same scenario happened 6 times in 1 month (even though I would [fastener] the swaddle so tight that there was no space between the swaddle and her skin, and she was unable to move when I first swaddled her until wiggling and stretching it out over a few hours and the material stretched and then moved). I stopped using the swaddle when one time I came in to check on my baby and the same scenario had happened again, but this time the material was pushed up over her mouth AND nose (still breathing when found her). The swaddle would never come undone and still was together, but would become stretched out and move as she slept, which allowed her hands to poke out of the opening (see photo) of where the corners of the material meet, causing a dangerous suffocation hazard.
Incident Date: 5/1/2015
Incident Location: Home/Apartment/Condominium

Victims Involved

Injury Information: Incident, No Injury
My Relationship to the Victim: My Child
Sex: Female
Victim's Age When Incident Occurred: 2 months

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Additional Details

Submitter has product?: Yes
Product was damaged before incident?: No
Product was modified before incident?: No
If yes to any, explanation: We still have the swaddleme products, and it could be compared to the swaddleme products when they are bought originally before the material is stretched out and a hazard
Have you contacted the manufacturer?: No
If Not, Do you plan to?:

Report Number: 20150519-FEC2A-2147432800
Report Date: 5/20/2015
Sent to Manufacturer/Importer/Private Labeler: 6/30/2015
Report First Publication Date: 7/15/2015
Category of Submitter: Consumer