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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Beware Baby Dies While being held

The death of a two-day-old infant when his mother picked up, making health experts warn the mothers. Mothers were asked to be careful when carrying your baby.
Quoted from the Daily Mail, a baby boy in Adelaide, Australia was found not breathing. Though the baby who was just two days was carried by his mother with a baby carrier or sling.
Although according to the pathologist's death was not caused because the baby sling, the mother still required to be careful. Two pathologists revealed no risk factors than the use of baby carriers.
In their letter to the Medical Journal of Australia, two pathologist Professor Roger Byard and John Gilbert reveals the importance of parents and infant caregivers are aware about these risk factors. They hope the parents and infant caregivers understand the safety issues when using a baby carrier, especially in newborns.
Warnings expressed by Byard and Gilbert was not the first time that happened. Last year, millions of baby carriers withdrawn from circulation by a company in America. They worry that such arms can cause the baby died because he could not breathe. Previous two types of baby carriers are made Infatino namely The SlingRider and Wendy Bellisimo baby causing three deaths.
Because it is the consumers in the United States lembagan ask the parents for not wearing a sling on the baby four months old yet.
They also require that all products sold baby carriers with the use of a clear security instructions. That's because sometimes the newborns who are still weak neck muscles and head heavier, can not free themselves from the excess material that is in a sling, causing them difficulty in breathing.
Until recently there were 14 infant deaths were reported due to sling. 12 of 14 deaths occurred in infants under the age of four months. There were also 22 accidents that occurred since the case a baby carrier in the United States.
An adviser to the safety of children in New Zealand Sue Campbell said, he and some other experts do not ask parents to stop wearing a sling. "But we advise people to be more careful in the choice of arms and aware about the existence of this risk," he said.
"Select a carrier that could see the baby's mother, his face covered, the baby's chin does not stick in his chest," he explained. Source: Daily Mail

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