Wireless Monitor For When Baby Falls Asleep In Car?

moomoomama27

meer53 wrote: »

The same article appeared on the BBC News website at the same time, here it is. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12180052

You'll find it is based on medical research. A bit narrow minded not to read it just because it was in the Daily Mail.

Why is it narrow minded not to want to read tabloid press? Perhaps you need to read back and see infact it could be determined that you are using an insulting tone?

moomoomama27

As far as the article it is concerned, it is outdated by three years, and the concluding evidence is still that current guidelines of exclusive breast feeding or substitute should be all that parents need to offer their baby for the first 6 months. Should there have been more compelling evidence to wean earlier, I'm sure it would have been updated since that article was written three years ago.

greeneggs_2

Here is the actual article in the BMJ

http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5955

It's an opinion piece rather than research and they are calling for more research to be done. As far as I can tell nothing else has been published in the BMJ since then (2011) which leads me to believe any additional research hasn't found anything of interest.

Following official guidelines rather than relying on heresy and anecdotes is surely the most sensible approach.

meer53

WHO advice on not weaning babies until they are 6 months old is from 2001.

This post is too far off topic now so i'm out.

greeneggs_2

meer53 wrote: »

WHO advice on not weaning babies until they are 6 months old is from 2001.

I know, I was responding to your links to the articles in dailymail and BBC - that's the link to the actual 'research' they are talking about.

meer53

greeneggs wrote: »

I know, I was responding to your links to the articles in dailymail and BBC - that's the link to the actual 'research' they are talking about.

I know, thank you for finding it.

moomoomama27

meer53 wrote: »

WHO advice on not weaning babies until they are 6 months old is from 2001.

This post is too far off topic now so i'm out.

It's still current advice though regardless of when it was first introduced.

grey_lady

How did this change from leaving a child in the car to the typical breasfeeding police rant?

So OP - as many many people have told you it is wrong to leave your baby in the car, ask your HV if you don't believe us. How would you feel if you woke up from a sleep strapped to your dining room chair? bit uncomfortable and grumpy by any chance?

Read Jo Frost's books if you want some insights on looking after toddlers. But please, please, please don't think it is 'the norm' to leave your child in the car unattended - you could easily be reported to the police for that.

Errata

It's all a nonsense, unless people are leaving their infants to sleep in the parked up car, with or without a monitor or looking through the window, during a heatwave or when it's several degrees below freezing, which I doubt.

notanewuser

grey_lady wrote: »

How did this change from leaving a child in the car to the typical breasfeeding police rant?

So OP - as many many people have told you it is wrong to leave your baby in the car, ask your HV if you don't believe us. How would you feel if you woke up from a sleep strapped to your dining room chair? bit uncomfortable and grumpy by any chance?

Read Jo Frost's books if you want some insights on looking after toddlers. But please, please, please don't think it is 'the norm' to leave your child in the car unattended - you could easily be reported to the police for that.

Urgh. *shudders*

OP, you don't deserve this flaming.

My DD is nearly 4. She's never been a light sleeper, and the vast majority of the time I have moved her sleeping from the car to the sofa. A few times though (I don't recall why) I did leave her in the car with windows and sunroof open, and her bedroom monitor (which includes a thermometer readout on both child and parent bits) on batteries in the car with her on the driveway. I assessed the risk as so low as not to be significant.

At 1.5 it's unlikely your child can come out of the car in the seat. My nieces are very light sleepers (aged 3 and 1.5) and they're routinely left in the car on their driveway asleep. Again, it's a calculated (insignificant) risk for them.