The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said on September 24 that Love To Dream is recalling approximately 4,000 portable sleep machines because their lithium-ion batteries can overheat and catch fire. The recalled units, sold under model number LTD-SM23 with date code 7W15TN, are nursery devices that combine a night light with white-noise and lullaby sound settings, marketed for use in a crib or on a nightstand near a sleeping infant.
CPSC’s notice states that “the lithium-ion battery in the recalled portable sleep machines can overheat if the charger is not compatible with the unit, posing a risk of injury from fire and burn hazards.” The agency has not received any reports of fires, burns or other injuries tied to the product, but is recalling it before an incident occurs rather than after one, a step CPSC can take under its own authority when a product fails to meet a safety standard.
A charger mismatch, not a defective cell
The distinction CPSC’s recall notice draws matters for what owners should actually do. The hazard described in the recall is not that the battery itself is faulty, but that pairing it with the wrong charger can push it into an overheating state. CPSC’s published guidance on battery safety standards says that manufacturers should test “the cell, the battery, the charger, and the product… as a system” rather than certifying each component in isolation, and that chargers need to be “suitable for product” rather than merely compatible with the battery’s voltage on paper. A charger that meets a general specification can still overheat a specific battery pack if the two were never validated together, which is the scenario CPSC’s language points to here.
That kind of mismatch is not unique to nursery products. A separate CPSC rulemaking now under review, aimed at lithium-ion batteries in e-bikes and scooters, found that charging-related incidents caused 18 of the 39 lithium-battery deaths and 102 of the 181 injuries the agency tallied nationwide between 2019 and 2023 — more than any other single cause the proposed rule identified, ahead of spontaneous failures in storage and aftermarket battery or charger swaps. The Love To Dream recall does not fall under that micromobility rule, since a sleep machine is neither an e-bike nor a scooter, but the underlying failure mode, an incompatible charger overheating a battery pack, is the same one regulators have been tracking across very different product categories for years.
Refunds, not repairs, for owners
Love To Dream is offering a full refund, paid electronically or as store credit, rather than a repair or replacement charger, an approach that avoids sending owners a new charger that would need its own compatibility testing against a battery pack already flagged as a risk. Owners can reach the company at 833-753-3710 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Central time, Monday through Friday, email [email protected], or file a claim at the company’s dedicated recall page. The recalled machines sold for about $60 between February 2025 and September 2026 at Target and Nordstrom stores nationwide, and online through lovetodream.com, Amazon.com, Walmart’s marketplace, Babylist and Poshmommy, a spread that suggests the affected units reached a wide range of households rather than a single retailer’s customer base.
CPSC’s notice does not instruct owners to stop charging the device immediately, unlike some of its more urgent lithium-battery warnings, but it does list the product alongside a fire and burn hazard rather than a lesser defect category, which under the agency’s own classification means owners should treat continued use and continued charging as carrying real risk rather than a theoretical one.
One of ten recalls posted the same day
The Love To Dream recall was one of ten product recalls the commission posted on September 24, alongside a battery-related recall of roughly 51,000 reclining-chair battery packs from Blue Cactus Company, about 21,380 NEWDERY power banks, and, separately, CPSC’s recall of roughly 43,674 children’s light-up toys over an unrelated button-battery ingestion hazard, according to a PRNewswire summary of that day’s postings. Four of the ten recalls that day involved batteries or battery packs in some form, a concentration that reflects how much of CPSC’s current recall workload centers on lithium-ion power sources embedded in everyday household and nursery products.
CPSC’s own battery safety standards page lists overheating, fire, electrical shock from chargers, thermal burns and high-velocity ejected internal components among the hazards it tracks for lithium-ion consumer products broadly, without singling out any one manufacturer. For the roughly 4,000 households that already own the recalled Love To Dream sleep machine, the agency’s instruction is narrower than that broader hazard list: stop using the device and its charger together, and file for the refund rather than waiting to see whether the unit overheats.
This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.
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