Abstract: An infant care apparatus is provided that includes a support for underlying the infant within the apparatus for providing care to that infant. The apparatus has an alarm system that triggers upon the occurrence of some event indicating that a particular parameter or condition of the apparatus or infant is outside the prescribed limits or other fault condition. The alarm system thus provides a signal indicative of that alarm condition to activate a means of warning the caregiver of the existence of the alarm condition. A sound producing device and/or light producing device receives the signal produced by the audible sound or light producing device to alert the caregiver of the alarm condition. The sound producing device and the light producing device are positioned on the apparatus such that there is a sound barrier and light barrier, respectively, between the particular device and the infant so that the infant is protected from being startled, and thus stressed, by the alarm audible sound or light activation.