Mom calls for change after infant daughter dies in Fisher-Price Rock 'n Play Sleeper.
"Now this is all I have left to remember my daughter," Richter said in a video played at the hearing, as she held up baby clothes in front of the camera."Her outfit from the hospital that still smells like her."Erika Richter, of Portland, Oregon, holds her newborn daughter Emma in 2018.
The cause of death for some of the babies was asphyxia, or the inability to breathe, due to the child's position. "I think about what life would be like if I had known, and I think about other mothers a lot," she said."Being able to finally join some of the mothers in a more public way has been something that has been really important to me and something that I’ve been waiting a really long time for, because my heart goes out to all of them. We’re kind of in this club that nobody wants to be in, that nobody should ever be in.
Fisher-Price said in a statement to ABC News that there"is nothing more important" to the company than the safety of its products and that its"hearts go out to every family who has suffered a loss." A similar product, the 2-in-1 Soothe 'n Play Glider, has also been recalled. No deaths have been linked to it.approved a new federal rule for infant sleep products