I have been concerned about a habit among new parents to cover their babies in the car seats with blankets. These babies are not just covered up for a moment or two between car and coming inside in the winter. The parents are keeping them covered in malls, while sitting waiting to be seen in the breastfeeding clinic, while waiting to go back outside etc. They might have a blanket on for half an hour if we didn't mention it to them. We teach all parents we see to not keep babies covered other than for a moment when going out to the car when it is really cold. I sometimes get an overwhelming urge to grab blankets off car seats in the malls when I see this done. (Not trying to reopen the discussion about the over use of car seats or "plastic baby buckets" which has been well covered in the archives.) I have been wondering about the impact of rebreathing CO2 for these babies. I also wonder about the combination of the positioning in car seats, with its impact on O2 satuaration, combined with this covering up. We are hoping this will be studied soon. I am not sure if this is a local phenomenon - either the winter weather or possibly a concern for infections in the post SARS era? Is this going on in other clinics? Do your mums frequently arrive with their babies covered up? Janet Vandenberg RN, BScN, IBCLC Public Health Nurse Ontario, Canada *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html