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IN PHOTO: The baby of an inmate sleeps at the "children's home" located inside a female prison camp, in Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, July 30, 2012. The children of female offenders that were born when their mothers were in pretrial detention or in prison camps, live in the "children's home" under the care of civilian tutors and officers of the regional penitentiary system up till the age of about 3-year-old, after which they are released to their relatives or sent to a civilian orphanage. The mothers also receive exemption from some of their usual duties and tasks in order to have daily contact with their children, according to the camp's administration. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin

Canadian parents who have purchased the Bednest bedside crib have been instructed to stop using the product because the product is not compliant with Canadian regulations, specifically the Cribs, Cradles and Bassinets Regulations. It has likewise ordered the Bednest Ltd, the U.K. distributor of the item, to pull out the product from the market.

The main selling point of the Bednest bedside crib is that one side is lowered than the others to allow positioning near a bed and access to the infant for care and feeding. However, Health Canada found the crib does not meet the minimum side height requirement for cribs

Moreover, the agency said the use of a bedside sleeping product with a side lowered can lead to the following hazards:

· If the space between the bed and the product is too wide, a baby can become trapped. It may seem like there is no gap, but one might be created when the adult lies down.

· If the fabric over the frame is not securely attached, it can bunch up when the side is folded down, creating an opening between the fabric and the product's frame. This opening can cause a baby to suffocate or fall.

Health Canada said it has yet to receive reports of incidents or injuries related to its use in the country. But the agency warned parents that a 7-week old infant in the United Kingdom had died because of the product. The baby strangled when she became entrapped with her neck on the top rail of the lowered side of the bedside sleeping product.

It is not known how many of the bedside cribs that were manufactured in Europe have been sold in Canada. "Parents and caregivers should never leave a child unattended in a bedside sleeping product with the side lowered. Room sharing is a safer sleeping choice for babies than the use of bedside sleeping products," Health Canada said.

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