Love To Dream will give a full refund to owners of about 4,000 portable sleep machines sold at Target and Nordstrom for about $60, after finding the battery can overheat when paired with an incompatible charger. The recall, announced Sept. 24, covers units sold between February 2025 and September 2026. No injuries have been reported.
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The Battery Hazard Behind Recall 26-798
The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s Sept. 24 recall notice says “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.” Recall 26-798 covers approximately 4,000 of the model LTD-SM23 Portable Sleep Machine with Night Light, identified by the date code 7W15TN, imported by Love To Dream, Inc. of Wilmington, Delaware, and manufactured in China, a company known primarily for infant sleep-swaddle products before expanding into nursery sound machines. The CPSC notice does not record any injuries connected to the defect, though the agency’s decision to recall the product before any harm was reported reflects how seriously it treats a lithium-ion fire risk in a device meant to run for hours next to a sleeping child.
Where the Sleep Machines Were Sold
Love To Dream sold the machines from February 2025 through September 2026 at Target and Nordstrom stores and online, as well as through lovetodream.com, Amazon.com, Walmartmarketplace.com, babylist.com and poshmommy.com, at a price of about $60. That mix of big-box retailers, a department store and the company’s own site means a household could have bought the same recalled machine through several different receipts, none of which is required to claim the refund. A gift purchased through a baby registry on babylist.com, for instance, qualifies for the same refund as one bought directly at a Target checkout counter, since the recall follows the product itself rather than where or how it changed hands.
How to Register for the Full Refund
To get the refund, the CPSC notice directs owners to register at lovetodream.com/recall with the unit’s model number and date code, both printed on the side of the device rather than on a box or receipt a household might have already thrown away. Love To Dream is issuing the refund as either an electronic payment or store credit, and the company’s consumer line, 833-753-3710, and its recall email, [email protected], are available for anyone who has trouble completing the online form. Because the refund depends on the model number and date code rather than a purchase receipt, a parent who received the machine secondhand or as a gift can still register it, as long as those two identifiers on the unit itself are legible.
Disposing of the Recalled Unit Safely
The recall notice adds an unusual step beyond the refund itself: owners are told to mark the device “RECALL” in permanent black marker and take it to a municipal household hazardous waste center rather than throwing it in regular trash or a curbside recycling bin. The Environmental Protection Agency’s own guidance on lithium-ion batteries explains why: a battery crushed by sorting equipment at a landfill or recycling facility can catch fire, the same overheating risk the recall itself is meant to prevent. The EPA also recommends bagging a battery or a device containing one separately and covering its terminals with non-conductive tape before it ever reaches a collection point, a step this recall notice does not spell out but that follows the same logic behind marking the unit “RECALL” in the first place. Many communities also list drop-off locations through Call2Recycle or the Earth911 directory, so a household does not have to guess where the nearest hazardous-waste site is before setting the recalled machine aside.
What a $60 Refund Covers for a Household
A $60 refund is a modest sum next to some of the pricier recalls making news this season, but for a household that bought the sleep machine as one line item in a broader nursery budget, getting the full purchase price back rather than a partial credit or a replacement unit means the money can go toward whatever the family needs next, not just another version of the same recalled product. A full refund also differs meaningfully from a repair remedy: nothing about this recall requires waiting on a mailed kit or scheduling a technician, since the transaction simply unwinds once the registration is confirmed. That makes this recall closer, in practice, to a straightforward return than to the multi-step repairs other manufacturers are asking owners to complete this same week. Registering takes only the model number and date code already printed on the device, so there is no need to track down an old receipt to collect it. For a family with more than one of the roughly 4,000 recalled units in circulation, perhaps one bought new and a second handed down from a relative, both refunds are available separately as long as each unit is registered under its own date code.
What the Refund Registration Doesn’t Track
Love To Dream’s recall pays a full refund once an owner registers the sleep machine’s model number and date code online, but the process itself does not hand back a copy of that submission or confirm when the refund actually posts. A household juggling this recall alongside everything else on a given week can lose track of whether the refund ever arrived, especially if the electronic payment lands under an unfamiliar sender name or the store credit posts to an account the family rarely checks.
The Settlement & Refund Recovery System’s claim log and payment tracker and step-by-step filing walkthrough are built to keep that kind of registration and follow-up in one place.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by a human editor, who checked the unit count, price and refund process against the CPSC’s own recall notice.
