A warning to New Jersey parents. Five major retailers, several with store locations here, have removed weighted baby blankets, sleep onesies, and other weighted baby apparel over breathing concerns.
A "significant" equity issue remains in the Garden State, according to Advocates for Children of New Jersey, with about a third (32%) of Black and Hispanic babies being raised in poverty, compared to only 6% of whites.
The boom took a while to get going because many families lost income at the outset of the pandemic, and there was significant uncertainty about how the virus behaved and how it might affect childbirth.