The last paragraph of this study really hit me.  The one family I really
worried about with no natural parenting

skills put their newborn in her swing all day long with her head lolling
forward.  They never carried her.  She

became developmentally disabled.  By her second year, her behaviors were
such that many outside the family

felt she had been oxygen deprived, though at what point we will never
know.



Also, it is interesting that 30 years ago the newborn safety seat we
used to six months, or when the baby could

sit upright alone, was a plastic bucket type.  I am wondering if that
nearly fully reclined position with head propped

with a rolled blanket was safer.

Judy Ritchie



Finally, 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.


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