Car-seat naps outside the car put babies at risk

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(Reuters Health) - Most infant deaths in car-safety seats happen when the seat is being used as a napping spot, rather than for transportation, a U.S.

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"Car seats are for cars, and they're not a substitute for cribs or bassinets," the study's senior author, Dr. Jeffrey D. Colvin of the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine, told Reuters Health.The American Academy of Pediatrics advises against letting babies sleep in car seats, strollers and other sitting devices, Colvin and his team note in Pediatrics.

Colvin and his colleagues reviewed U.S. data on 11,779 infant sleep-related deaths in 2004-2014, of which three percent took place in a sitting device, such as a car seat, stroller or bouncer. Car safety seats accounted for nearly two-thirds of these deaths, and the sitting devices were being used as directed less than 10 percent of the time.

Most deaths occurred while a child was at home or at a friend or relative's home, and while a child was being supervised by a parent or guardian. Deaths in sitting devices were almost three times more likely to occur when a child was being supervised by a child-care provider rather than a parent, and were twice as likely when a babysitter was watching the child.

In many cases, infants had not been strapped into the seat properly, Colvin noted in a phone interview."What we saw a lot as well was that the infants had been placed in that car seat in the house for hours and hours, and the parent who was supposed to be supervising the child went to sleep."Because car seats are safety devices, and the safest place for babies to be while in a car, parents and caregivers may mistakenly believe that the seats are safe for sleep too, Colvin said.

"All parents, me included, have been guilty of taking a sleeping infant in a car seat out of the car and not wanting to risk waking them up," Colvin said."The safest thing to do for a sleeping infant outside of a car is to place them in a bassinet or a crib, but at an absolute minimum, that infant should be directly observed and fully strapped in."

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