Dear Friends:

What do you all think?

The CPSC is investigating at least 14 deaths over the past 20 years
associated
with sling-style infant carriers, including three in 2009. Twelve of the
deaths
involved babies younger than four months of age. Many of the babies who died
in
slings were either a low birth weight twin, were born prematurely, or had
breathing issues such as a cold.
<http://blogs.consumerreports.org/baby/infant-care/>
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Contrast that with this:MedGenMed. <javascript:AL_get(this, 'jour',
'MedGenMed.');> 2003 Mar 26;5(1):36.
 The role of bath seats in unintentional infant bathtub drowning deaths.

Thompson KM<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Thompson%20KM%22%5BAuthor%5D>
.

 RESULTS: In-depth analysis of the unintentional bathtub drowning deaths of
American infants aged 6-10 months for the years 1994 through 1998 revealed
40 infant drowning deaths associated with bath seats.

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Nikki here again:


Now 40 deaths in 4 years seems to be a lot more serious than  14 deaths in
20 years.......but which device gets the most attention? I don't remember
any huge fuss about infant bath seats.

I could be wrong.....but shouldn't we be making public health advisories
about infant bath seats too? Or is it just the power of the Internet that is
splashing the news about slings everywhere, whereas the infant bath seat
story was 7 years ago, before Twitter and blogs and such?


What do you all think?


warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, Mother of 2, MS, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral therapy practitioner
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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