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• Consumer Reports Responds to Sling-Hate Outrage

  When Consumer Reports issued its warning against five products they thought should never find their way onto a baby registry, the response was one of outrage. Especially with regard to two issues: baby-wearing and co-sleeping. The venerated watchdog group warned of serious injury and death from both, adding that co-sleeping products pose their own set of risks, but got hammered by co-sleeping baby-wearers. So in a follow-up post to all the angry comments, here's how they defended their findings.   Read More... Posted May 01 2009, 04:31 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Consumer Reports, slings, safety tips, crib bumpers, walkers, shopsmart, bath seats, co-sleepers

• Dangerous Baby Gear: Why Can I Buy It?

  A recent press release for the May 2009 issue of ShopSmart, by the publishers of Consumer Report, lists some safety tips and includes many of the usual: don't turn your back even for a second while baby is in the tub; keep bouncy seats off tables; and actually buckle the straps on the stroller.  And then there's this tip: don't use bath seats.  And also this one: don't put your baby in a walker. Okay, I have heard those last two safety tips -- along with don't use crib bumpers -- since I signed on to this whole mothering thing eight years ago. Every parenting magazine I read, every website I checked, every "safety tips" list in the OBs office always included those three tips among the others. Yet I spent last weekend watching our hosts' nine-month-old zip around his house full of stairs in a brand new walker.     Read More... Posted Mar 25 2009, 06:01 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Consumer Reports, safety tips, crib bumpers, walkers, shopsmart, bath seats