10 Adorable Baby Gifts That Are Actually Seriously Unsafe

Crib bumpers

These used to come with every baby bedding set, but after they were declared a suffocation risk, most companies stopped manufacturing them. But that doesn’t mean that a well-wisher may not find a set somewhere out on the Internet. “Let’s start with the crib—we know bumper pads and all of those extra things that make them look so fabulous are dangerous for infants,” says Pat Gabbe, MD, an infant mortality researcher at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Learn these other dangerous parenting mistakes.