Transparent crib bumper pads

A crib bumper pad adapted for a crib or the like having a plurality of upstanding slats and upstanding support posts, said pad comprising:

• (a) an inflatable mattress with spaced connections to the mid-points of spaced inflatable sections, each of said connections being a flexible conduit of fluid impervious transparent material whereby said conduit is of lesser width than said section and mattress thus providing spaces between said sections and mattress, said sections being pivotable about said conduit to upstanding positions to assume a protective conforming configuration along said upstanding slats therof when said mattress is placed within said crib;
• (b) means operatively connected with said mattress extending outwardly thereof for inflating and deflating said mattress and said sections externally of the crib;
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• (c) means on said sections for securing said sections to said upstanding support posts of said crib so that a baby within said crib can be safely observed at all times through said transparent material sections and said baby can see out of said crib through said transparent material sections to surrounding environment.