abstract:An infant bed (commonly referred to as a cot in British English, and in American English a crib or far less commonly a cradle or stock) is a small bed specifically for infants and very young children. Infant beds are a historically recent development intended to contain a child capable of standing.
Infant fatalities attributed to accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed quadrupled between 1984 and 2004, according to the Centers for Disease and Prevention.