Infant Car Seat Safety and Shopping Carts If infant car seat safety is important to you, then this article is important. Is it all right to place even the safest infant car seat on top of a shopping car? Absolutely not! Whenever I’m in the grocery store I walk out with a sore tongue. The reason for that is I’m having to bite it to not give people the facts. They just assume that the safest car seat for their car will protect their little one on a grocery cart. The American Academy of Pediatrics Makes It Clear The American Academy of Pediatrics put it clearly: “Parent and caregivers should never place an infant carrier on top of the shopping cart.” The AAP goes on to say that over 24,000 children were treated in U.S. hospitals for shopping cart related injuries last year. If you’re in the habit of putting your car seat on top of the cart you may be wondering why it isn’t safe. After all, you can clip the seat onto the cart and it seems stable. The fact is that the cart is not made for a car seat and it makes the cart even more likely to tip over. The safest infant car seat can’t protect your child if he’s falling hard to a cement floor. Since you did your homework on infant car seat safety before buying the safest car seat you could find, why wouldn’t it protect your child even if they fall from a shopping cart? The fact is that their injury will probably be worse because of the car seat. Children are just like the rest of us in that they have a natural reflex to right and protect themselves when falling. When a child is strapped into a car seat however, they aren’t able to perform any protective maneuver. Therefore the injury they sustain could be much worse than if they weren’t in a seat at all. The fact is that the car seat makes the fall even harder because of its weight. Infant car seat safety has nothing to do with riding in a shopping cart. NOT SAFE PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:59:24 +0000
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