It’s a sober warning from safety experts looking out for little ones—if you got it in 2024 or this year, here's what to know.
It doesn’t get much sweeter than bedtime snuggles with a new baby, but if peace of mind is hard to come by after laying down a little one for the night, the Nationwide Children’s Hospital offers a few safe sleeping tips. For one, they say, always place babies on their backs, not on their sides or stomachs. It’s also important to remember that a crib or bassinet is best for preventing sudden unexplained infant deaths.
But if the very products we trust to keep babies secure fail to meet certain standards, it’s crucial to know those details right away. Such is the case with a recent warning from one governmental agency dedicated to that mission on an item you may have purchased or received as a gift.
In a recall notice posted Thursday, September 4, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said “about 23,000 units” of URMYWO Baby Loungers have been recalled “due to risk of serious injury or death from suffocation and fall hazard.” The products are said to have been sold on Amazon for $30 to $50 between the dates of January 2024 and April 2025.
The report provided the following identifying details:
- Name of product: URMYWO Baby Lounger
- Style: “Grey feather”—loungers have a gray cloth cover with a feathers print, a foam sleeping pad, and padded bumpers
- “URMYWO” and “Model No: UMCZC01AE” are both printed on labels found on the loungers’ sides
- Retailer: Dong Guan Bo Mo Na Ke Ji You Xian Gong Si, of China, doing business as Pomona
- Manufactured in China
The CPSC highlights four major concerns with the affected loungers:
- They “violate the mandatory standard” for such products—the sides are shorter than they should be and may not properly secure infants.
- There’s a suffocation risk due to the sleeping pad’s thickness, which “exceeds the maximum limit.”
- Babies could “fall out of an enclosed opening … or become entrapped.”
- The baby loungers do not have a stand, which could result in falls.
States the agency: “These violations create an unsafe sleeping environment for infants, posing a risk of serious injury or death.” The CPSC website lists specific guidelines companies should follow for infant sleep products, which are “marketed or intended to provide a sleeping accommodation for an infant up to 5 months of age.”
Product photos are available at the above CPSC link.
The notice says no incidents or injuries have been reported as of the posting date—note it’s still critical to take these indicated steps if you have the affected products on hand. As instructed by the CPSC, consumers should “immediately” stop using the loungers, then contact the company Pomona for a full refund. In order to receive the refund, consumers “should remove the sleeping pad, cut up the sides of the baby loungers and the sleeping pad and email a photo of the destroyed lounger” to urmyworecall [at] outlook.com.
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