The Children Are Our Future and Our Future is Dying All Over the Place

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I've seen the articles about this recall, but no one has broken it down for me. Does the thing just scrunch the kid up (like in the pic!) until it can't breath, and the parents don't notice? That's pretty horrible.

Reymont on March 24, 2010 at 4:22 PM

While I get that the Merc blog is typically a witty and entertaining site, I think January's post is rather insensitive. The baby that died in Keizer was only 7 days old and literally suffocated while being held in this sling as the mother was grocery shopping. It's just really sad and not something to be so glib about.

on March 24, 2010 at 4:58 PM

Great. Put more fear in parents when they are trying to do something positive, by wearing their children. The issue is not the carrier (though maybe these infantinos are poorly designed) but error of usage.
Not to be insensitive to the parents who lost infants, but the prevention to these deaths was looking down and checking on the baby.
I have witnessed two different women, in two different places, wearing a newborn in a sling...and completely ignoring them. For over 20 minutes, and so obviously scrunched up.
Newborns and young infants can not move to clear their airways. Their breathing is irregular and shallow. If you have them covered and left for an extended period of time they can die.
Newborns and young infants die from being left in car seats and strollers for hours at a time. Why no recall or law there?
Infants are safest in their mother's arms, but not when they're ignored.

lyra on March 24, 2010 at 9:22 PM