And why, with inevitable comparisons between an infant product and a mature, world-class one, the marketing message was so lackadaisically bombastic.
There was a relationship between the age of the children and the mechanism of injury; young babies fell or were dropped from a carer's arms, toddlers who fell down the stairs or from furniture had a median of 18 months, 1 year olds fell from an infant product while the older children fell from standing or from walls, windows, shopping trolleys, and so on (table 3).
And some small companies could continue selling infant products.
Shares of companies like Combi and Pigeon that specialize in infant products rose today.
A year later it expanded again to include Mothercare, a retailer of maternity and infant products.
Only a few infant products, like cribs and car seats, are subject to mandatory government standards and even fewer have been banned outright.
Next, I reveled in the large portfolio of products from BébéSounds, a babytronics brand introduced by a small New York company called Unisar and bought this year by Graco, a large manufacturer of infant products.
According to Transparency Market Research, Americans are expected to spend $47.7 billion on infant products in 2012, an increase of almost seven percent from 2011.
In China, demand for products manufactured overseas hinges on concerns about the safety of locally produced items, with infant products and groceries performing especially well.
Its toy offerings include boy's action figures, vehicles and play sets, girls' toys, electronic toys, plush products, preschool toys and infant products, electronic interactive products, creative play and toy related specialty products.
Hierarchical clustering showed that mothers identified nine classes of key foods, including milk derivatives, complements, junk food, infant products, chicken parts, and other meats.
