Wireless Monitor For When Baby Falls Asleep In Car?

Kayalana99

I originally thought this thread was a wind up as well. I know everyone does things differently but leaving a child unattended in a car? Ok at least with a baby monitor you can see them....but it means up untill now OP has left the child in the car without one!

Really anything could happen...for a start how long would it take to break a window and take the child out of a car seat?

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What if the car was towed away? Or an asteroid hit the car? Or the petrol tank blew up?

lostinrates

duchy wrote: »

I don't think the OP has thought it through
Year round solution-winter too cold, summer too hot
High winds- tree falls on car
Heavy rain or hail on car- wakes child up anyway

Neighbours not approving - SS pop round...or police

Sounds like it would be a lot easier to just bring the child in and put up with a bit of noise til they settle again.

A friend of mine kept her horse at our house when her baby was ...well, a baby.

The baby would often sleep in the car, otherwise come in the house with me.

Circumstances aren't always how we picture them on screen. In the car doesn't necessarily mean road side or on a drive. This car was in a secure yard or barn, in very cool shade in summer in easy earshot of Mamma. And no further than across my kitchen to get to the baby.

She was the kind of mamma who walked outside with the baby in all weathers, the baby had attire for every occasion. In winter there was no heating in the car so that if baby slept the baby could remain near her in the car, if awake could come into my unheated house with me, still suited up.

Morglin

GobbledyGook wrote: »

And for every story like yours there is one like my grandparents. Their first two children who went into their own rooms, as was standard, both died of cot death. Their younger two who were born when they lived in a bedsit and were therefore always in the same room did not.

Safe co-sleeping is NOT a factor in cot death at all. The reason it is discouraged so much in this country is that people don't do it safely. In countries like Japan where safe co-sleeping is incredibly common they don't even have a word for cot death because it happens so rarely.

The "I did X" attitude doesn't help anyone. My Grandad slept in a cot most likely painted with lead paint, never put on a seat belt far less was in a car seat and left school to work in a factory at 12. He did alright as well, but doesn't mean it'd be remotely acceptable for me to do the same with my son. Times change nd advice changes for a reason. Very few people follow every single guideline, but I'm always baffled that people ignore the cot death one so easily.

Then again perhaps it's like measles. Deaths from measles and cot death are so rare now that many parents are unaware that actually, yes, it could happen to your child. When it's not everywhere all of the time people get complacent.

The advice is only for six months. if Mum & Dad's relationship can't sustain not being able to swing from the bedroom chandelier for six months (if they feel the need to not have sex with a baby in the room) then I suggest the constant demands by the baby are going to have an even bigger impact before they even get upstairs.

Yes, I agree with you, that cot death (sadly) can occur in every situation, as the definitive reason for it is still not known, which is why the one size fits all medical expertise guarantees nothing.

We all do the best we can.

However, the latest medical expertise (if we believe it) does suggest an increased risk of cot death if baby is sharing a bed, with parents:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/children_shealth/10069057/Sharing-bed-with-babies-raises-cot-death-risk.html

And, yes, Measles can and still does (rarely) sometimes have complications which can disable or kill a child, and although the jab makes it less likely, it still happens.

Not sure why a baby should stop a sex life, though? :think:

Lin

greeneggs_2

Morglin wrote: »

Yes, I agree with you, that cot death (sadly) can occur in every situation, as the definitive reason for it is still not known, which is why the one size fits all medical expertise guarantees nothing.

We all do the best we can.

Of course children still die of cot death even when all of the recommendations are being followed. The recommendations are simply ways of keeping as safe as possible. Sometimes people die crossing the road even when they are crossing at a green man, that doesn't mean that using the green man is not the safer option.

Surely doing the best we can is following advice of people who have looked at all of the studies on SIDs and made recommendations?

Morglin

Until they actually find out, unequivocally, what causes SIDS, if there is one cause, it is all latest supposition, with 'how you can prevent it' advice, and I would imagine, not helpful to those who have tragically lost a baby and think that they must have done something wrong.

As there have also been cases, of adult SIDS, in teens and adults, it does suggest an undiagnosed, underlying cause, unrelated to who is eating/sleeping what and where:

http://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/woman-504/sex-contraception-48/441108-sids-older-children-teenagers-adults-all.html

Lin

greeneggs_2

Morglin wrote: »

Until they actually find out, unequivocally, what causes SIDS, if there is one cause, it us all latest supposition, and I would imagine, not helpful to those doh have tragically lost a baby and think that they must have done something wrong.

Lin

Oh absolutely, which is why I chose to follow all of the advice to the letter because then I knew if something awful happened I'd be more able to live with myself - I'm a natural rule follower though!

I don't think a 'cause' is ever going to be found because as I understand it it isn't an illness that can be studied at a microbic level so all of the research can only happen after the fact and is based on questioning parents who may or may not be totally honest.

I do think we're lucky to live in an age where things are at least somewhat understood and advice is easily available, even if we choose to ignore it.

Morglin

Yeah, which is why all parents should just do what feels right to them.

We do our best, and that's all we can do.

Lin

topdaddy_2

duchy wrote: »

I don't think the OP has thought it through
Year round solution-winter too cold, summer too hot
High winds- tree falls on car
Heavy rain or hail on car- wakes child up anyway

Neighbours not approving - SS pop round...or police

Sounds like it would be a lot easier to just bring the child in and put up with a bit of noise til they settle again.

Kayalana99 wrote: »

I originally thought this thread was a wind up as well. I know everyone does things differently but leaving a child unattended in a car? Ok at least with a baby monitor you can see them....but it means up untill now OP has left the child in the car without one!

Really anything could happen...for a start how long would it take to break a window and take the child out of a car seat?

Its not hard to see the problem and not hard to see the solution.

Person_one

ringo_24601 wrote: »

What if the car was towed away? Or an asteroid hit the car? Or the petrol tank blew up?

Why don't parents just leave babies in the house alone when they go out then? After all, chances are it'd be fine 9.9 times out of 10.