Important Reminder: Car Seat Use Should be Limited to Protecting Babies When Riding in Cars

CONCLUSIONS: In healthy term newborns, significant desaturations were observed in both car beds and car seats as compared with hospital cribs. This study was limited by lack of documentation of sleep stage. Therefore, these safety devices should only be used for protection during travel and not as replacements for cribs.       09/10/2009
Source: First Candle - Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Source Type: news