Parents of infants got a blow this morning with news of a Bumbo Floor Seat recall, set in motion by the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s report of falls leading to 21 baby skull fractures.

The recall affects about 4 million Bumbos–the popular floor seats made of lightweight foam that enable babies to sit up on their own at just a few months of age. But the CPSC says that infants can wriggle out of the seats and fall.

Bumbo’s D.C.-based spokesperson has not returned email questions from Yahoo! Shine about the recall. Meanwhile, its USA distributor, Keen Distribution, is fielding calls from concerned parents, and has an operator answering with a new greeting: “Thank you for calling the Bumbo Baby Seat recall hotline.”

It’s the second recall for manufacturer Bumbo International Trust, based in South Africa. The first, in 2007, recalled about 1 million of the seats for a warning label that cautioned against using them on raised surfaces.

That didn’t stop me from putting Bumbo on my shower registry and using it frequently for my daughter, born in 2008. I loved how it allowed her to see the world from an upright position–and how it let me cook dinner, get dressed and, let’s face it, sit on the toilet without balancing her on my knee. (I even tempted fate by using it, I’ll admit, on the kitchen table from time to time–though I didn’t take my eyes off her.)

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For more information about the Bumbo recall please see their site here.

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