A common adornment of the well-apportioned baby crib — protective cloth “bumpers” — have been linked to dozens of accidental infant suffocation deaths in recent decades, a new investigation revealed.

Padded crib bumpers have been implicated by medical examiners in at least 35 baby deaths across the country, the Washington Post reported.

The National Institutes of Health, American Academy of Pediatrics and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention all have warned the public against using bumpers for years, the paper reported.

Still, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has failed, until now, to rule that padded bumpers were to blame in the deaths.

The commission has a new acting chairman — longtime commissioner Robert Adler —  who told the paper he plans to invite outside experts to come in and debate the safety of crib bumpers at a public hearing in early 2020.