The wrong charger can make a baby’s sleep machine overheat, and 4,000 are recalled

Target and Nordstrom stores, Amazon, a Walmart marketplace listing and two baby-registry sites all carried the same white, heart-shaped night light and sound machine, and about 4,000 of them are now recalled. The Love To Dream Portable Sleep Machine with Night Light can overheat its lithium-ion battery when paired with a charger that is not compatible with the unit, a fault that puts a fire and burn hazard in the room where an infant sleeps.

The unit is small and portable by design, which means it travels: from the crib to the stroller to the car seat, charging from whatever cable and wall adapter happens to be nearby. That habit is exactly what the recall puts under scrutiny, because a stationary nightstand lamp is plugged into the same outlet for years, while a portable sound machine meets a new charger every time the family changes rooms or takes a trip.

Lithium-ion battery and the wrong charger

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recall notice, number 26-798 and dated September 24, 2026, states the hazard in a single sentence: “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 says no incidents or injuries have been reported, so the recall is precautionary in the sense that no fire has been tied to it, though the notice still treats the fault as one that can start a fire, and the commission attributes the risk to the battery rather than to the plastic housing or the speaker.

What the notice does not say is which chargers count as compatible. Love To Dream’s own recall page, as posted, warns against using an incompatible charger without spelling out what makes one incompatible, and it directs owners to disconnect the unit from any charger and keep it away from flammable materials. The company, Love To Dream, Inc. of Wilmington, Delaware, had the machines made in China.

The wording leaves a practical gap. A USB charging cable ships with the unit, but a household also contains phone bricks, laptop adapters, fast chargers and power banks, and the notice neither rules any of them in nor out. Owners are left to treat the supplied cable and a matching adapter as the only known-safe pairing, which is an inference from the wording and not something the commission states.

Model LTD-SM23, date code 7W15TN

Only one model and one production batch are covered: model LTD-SM23 with date code 7W15TN. Medical Daily’s parent checklist notes that both identifiers appear on the side of the unit and on the back of the box, so a parent holding the machine can check without registering first.

The sales window is long and ends late. The machines were on sale from February 2025 through September 2026, at about $60, so the recall reaches back more than a year and runs right up to the announcement date. Hoodline’s report characterizes the product as Love To Dream’s first electronic nursery device, launched in early 2025, and its first major U.S. recall, so the recalled batch accounts for essentially the whole run of a product that is not yet two years old.

Retail breadth is the other feature of the sales record. Target and Nordstrom sold the machine in stores and online, while the brand’s own site, lovetodream.com, Amazon, Walmart’s marketplace, Babylist and Poshmommy sold it online only. Two of those names are baby-registry and resale sites, so a machine that arrived as a shower gift or a secondhand purchase may have no order confirmation in the user’s own inbox, and the date code on the unit is the dependable check.

Refund, a marker pen and a hazardous-waste drop-off

The remedy is a full refund, paid by electronic payment or store credit, but it comes with conditions. Owners register the model number and date code, write “RECALL” across the unit in permanent black marker, and then take it to a municipal hazardous waste center. NBC News’ shopping desk adds that the device cannot go into household trash, curbside recycling or retail battery drop-boxes, because the lithium-ion cell is the thing that failed.

The disposal rule is more than red tape. The battery is the part that failed, and the instructions route it to a hazardous waste site for that reason. The marker-pen step has a second effect: a unit scrawled with “RECALL” cannot easily be passed along to another family through a consignment shop or a marketplace listing.

NBC Montana’s recall roundup repeats the CPSC’s count of about 4,000 machines and its finding of no reported incidents, so the recall as announced comes down to about 4,000 machines, one date code, no reported fire and a notice that names the hazard without naming the charger.

This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.

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