Wireless Monitor For When Baby Falls Asleep In Car?

moomoomama27

I'll call it, it IS neglectful, if you were reported it would be considered neglectful and a failure of safeguarding on your part. Anything could happen!

If the inconvenience of either transferring your child to the home, or sitting in the car til he wakes then I'm afraid you have your priorities wrong, very wrong.

Maybe this hits a nerve with me more, because this happened in an area I lived. Two children left sleeping in a car, the car caught fire. By the time the parent realised the children had suffered horrific burns. Recently also there was a story of another car rolling into a car left outside on a pavement. The child inside suffered bad injuries. Ok this may be rare, and to some hysterical but really is it worth the risk!!??

Anatidaephobia

I wouldn't leave a £20 note lying on the car seat incase somebody stole it so I certainly wouldn't leave anything more important or valuable unattended in the car either. I consider my area to be "safe" and have never had any problems.

A few posters have said that when they left their children in the car, they were watching closely from the window at all times; if that's the case then why not just sit in the car with a book or your tablet, as others have said. Not really sure why people are choosing not to do this when it seems like the ideal solution.

There does seem to be some irony in not wanting to disturb your child because you want the best for them yet, in the process, taking quite a few risks with their health and safety by leaving them in a car along for who knows how long. My personal feeling is that "everybody does it" and "it's been fine every time I've done it before" are not sufficient reasons to justify the risk.

mummyroysof3

I have never done this with any of my 3 children as tbh it's never needed to be concidered. I would not have done it while on the road, if on end of drive where car is visible from front window I still don't think I would have. Now if car was on our parking space on back garden behind locked gates with back door open and I stayed in the back room or in garden I might have done it assuming it's not hot weather.

coolcait

Slinky wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28214266

Until today - and this thread - I had always taken the explanation that the parent "tragically forgot" more or less at face value.


Now that I find that it is apparently commonplace for parents to deliberately leave their children - especially, sleeping children - in the car, I am starting to wonder if "I forgot" is a self-serving excuse.


I wouldn't leave a child in a car unattended for any length of time - and one of my children was a light sleeper too.


When I was a child, our car was hit by a drunk driver while it was parked outside my grandparent's house. Our car was clearly visible from a long way down the road. It ended up on the far side of the road, on its roof.


Luckily, all we lost was the car.

wik

Blimey some harsh replies! I have a feeling I may get my head taken off...lol but here goes!

When my children were babies we lived on a small island, and most people if babies were asleep would leave them in the car parked out side the co op... And if your baby woke up, the first person past the car would put head in the shop and let you know! and as to car being stolen, well my car keys never left the car, it was never locked.

that only caused a problem when locking car on mainland one day and the key getting stuck in the lock! thank goodness for the rac man!

back to kids in car, when at home if they were still sleeping i would park them in the shade, with door and window open.
once they got to playgroup age they would undo seat belts and come indoors
They are now 20, 18 and 15 and all very independant young people

I think it is a thing of the parent risk assessing the dangers.. I would have loved a monitor to save me keep dashing outside to check when i was working

alias*alibi

roses wrote: »

Thank you all for your fantastic advice on what a horrific parent I am.

First of all I am looking for a solution I can use all year round.

Second of all I am not a complete moron. I would never leave my son in the sweltering heat, I of course use my judgement.

My son is like me. Once he is up, he is up and he won't go back to sleep so moving him from car to cost doesn't work.

I have found a number of camping baby monitors which suit what I am looking for.

Really, some of the comments here about how I'm neglecting my child are really narrow minded. Most people I know leave their child in the car to sleep in their driveway in the small town where I live. It is not dangerous as long as you use your judgement.

Wow, defensive! I'm not surprised you got the comments you have after asking such a ridiculous question. No one in their right mind would leave a baby sleeping in a car seat left in the car!

saterkey

I was a little shocked to read this to be honest,


cars have been stolen
handbrakes failed and car moved down hill
a lady outside the school gates had a bin lorry hit her car whilst picking her kids up.
temperature, hot or cold
lots of reasons really, but generally have portable car seat and just bring it in, we used to just bring baby into the porch area where it was nice and quiet and safe.

Gillyx

I have a very light sleeper, although he no longer naps, if he did fall asleep one of us would sit in the car with him until he woke. I would use the kindle all on my phone to read.

Regardless of dangers, all it takes it for a well meaning neighbour to see and think oh gosh that child is being left unattended, il send a little call to SS and then You'll find you have to explain yourself to them. Not worth it IMO.

Person_one

CH27 wrote: »

Someone could crash into it!

Very very good point.

I had a car completely written off a few years ago by a drunk driver who was speeding down the road and bouncing off all the cars parked along the pavement.

There was no way to see it coming, and no way to intervene to stop it or prevent the damage, the car was just smashed and wrecked in a second.

Stuff like that does happen.

Person_one

Carl31 wrote: »

I do wonder sometimes how people think humanity evolved, we have been around a few thousand years, way before modern technology, and we managed to survive, despite the millions of !!!!!philes, random accidents, and food alergies, yet we probably worry more now than ever before

Well, for starters, we didn't tend to survive nearly as long. Child mortality rates have generally been appalling until very recently, still are in much of the developing world.