In a message dated 3/11/2004 9:04:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

> The wife of a colleague of my husband (hope that's clear) delivered a
> healthy term baby, now 6 days old.  My husband mentioned to me that her
> pediatrician recommended they should let their baby sleep in the baby car
> seat, due to baby not wanting to sleep in the crib at night.  I'm still
> learning, but it was kind of a red flag for me as I remembered reading the
> study "Respiratory Instability of Term and Near-Term Healthy Newborn
> Infants in Car Safety Seats" from Pediatrics September 2001 (Volume 108,
> Number 3)(below) which noted "this study pointed out that all infants, both
> full and preterm, are susceptible to declining oxygen saturation rates the
> longer they remain in the seated position. This underscores the need to
> minimize travel for infants and to discourage the use of swings and other
> types of upright seating devices in the first few months of life."
> Well...we chatted...she is an elementary teacher and thinks
> the study is
> too old to be valid (and my doctor told me to do this)


I'm still shaking my head that a teacher, whose profession seems to have so little evidence-based info behind practices, thinks a research report that is only 2.5 years old is too old to be valid. But I'd better not go there! For more of a data trail, try:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Display&dopt=pubmed_pubmed&from_uid=7630686

Maybe the doc is unfamiliar with this lit??

Karen

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