One more factor not mentioned is how many babies, properly restrained,
actually survived an accident.
Wouldn't this be the equivalent of the Exclusive BFing category?
Do you also need "uninjured" compared to "injured but survived"?

Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC, RLC
Glendale, AZ
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> I'm wondering how many of the "restrained" children were really not.  I 
> see so many families with car seats installed improperly, with the 5 pt 
> harness installed too loosely or improperly, where the child is in much 
> more risk of dying in a crash simply because of the way the car seat or 
> belt is on the child...I suppose it would be difficult to figure out 
> after a crash if the seat was installed correctly, and if the child was 
> in the seat correctly, but it would make those statistics more accurate.
>
> Although I guess the statistics in question below serve the cause of 
> "not breastfeeding is more dangerous than not using a car seat."
>
> Joylyn
>
> Margaret G. Bickmore wrote:
>
> >> Wondering, maybe with someone with more time than I could compare the 
> >> risk of an unrestrained child vs the risk of formula?
> >> Joylyn
> >
> >
> > I just did this last month on an LLL email list.  The Chen and Rogan 
> > study from Pediatrics (2004) estimates 720 deaths per year between 28 
> > days and 1 year of age in the US. 
> > http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/113/5/e435
> >
> > I was not able to find car seat usage data specific to the 0-1 year 
> > age group.   According to the National Highway Transportation and 
> > Safety Administration (NHTSA), 751 children aged 0-7 years died in 
> > motor vehicle crashes in 2004.  Of these, 311 were not restrained (ie 
> > potentially preventable by appropriate car seat use) and 440 were. 
> > http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/RNotes/2006/810595.pdf
> >
> > Another report using five years of data from 1998-2002 breaks out 
> > children 0-3 years old: 
> > http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/Rpts/2005/809784.pdf
> > This report's numbers work out to about 400 fatalities per year in 
> > this age group (153 unrestrained and 246 restrained).
> >
> > In order to compare apples to apples, we really need to know how many 
> > of those motor vehicle deaths were in babies under 1 year old, and the 
> > NHTSA statistics are not presented that way.  But it's probably a safe 
> > guess that fewer than 150 deaths per year are infants.  And probably 
> > 50 or fewer of the *unrestrained* (potentially preventable) deaths are 
> > infants.
> >
> > It seems clear from this data that *many* more babies die in the US 
> > each year from not being breastfed than from improper car seat use.
> >
> > Margaret
>
 

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