CRIB DEATH
Every day around 8 babies die from crib death in the United States.
However, research now shows that simple precautions can prevent crib death.
Two scientists, Dr Jim Sprott in New Zealand and Mr Barry Richardson in the United Kingdom, have proven that crib death is caused by gases generated by fungal activity on compounds of phosphorus, arsenic and/or antimony present in many baby mattresses and other items of baby bedding.
The solution is to wrap your baby’s crib mattress with a strictly specified mattress cover which prevents the gases from reaching the baby; and to use on top the wrapped mattress specified bedding which is not capable of the gas generation concerned.
“Mattress-wrapping for crib death prevention” has been publicised nationwide in New Zealand for the past 10 years. During that time a very large number of New Zealand babies have slept on mattresses wrapped in specially formulated slip-on polyethylene co-polymer mattress covers. These mattress covers (which were designed by Dr Sprott and are called BabeSafe covers) are now in use in a number of countries.
There has been no reported crib death – anywhere in the world – on any mattress wrapped in accordance with Dr Sprott’s mattress-wrapping specifications.
See the Frequently Asked Questions section within this website for more details.
See our order page for how to order a BabeSafe mattress cover:
Your order will be delivered within approximately 14 days from receipt of payment. Orders are dispatched from New Zealand using first-class airmail. Detailed instructions for use of the BabeSafe cover (including the bedding instructions) will be included with your shipment.
To download our leaflet (.pdf) click here