to think that you have to be really trying hard to injure your child with a Bumbo?

[DrSeuss]

If anyone's child really has been injured then I am very, very sorry and wish them a speedy recovery but seriously?! If you need telling not to put a small baby on a worktop or table then you may not really be ready for the challenges of motherhood! Not everything is someone else's fault, you can't take legal action for everything. At some point you have to take responsibility. I used a Bumbo for both kids and found them to be excellent. Neither one ever succeeded in hurting themselves on a squishy foam chair placed on the floor away from other furniture, even DD who learned to escape from it at a very early stage but who still likes to sit in her Bumbo at the age of 15 months.

Why what's happened?

They've issued a recall in the States. All Bumbos to have safety harnesses.

i thought they were meant to be used on the floor, hence no need for harness?

They are. All the cases of injury involve tables or similar. In what respect is that the manufacturer's fault?

all the people I've known who've had accidents with them have been on the floor, some kids just tip them up all the time, others never tip em

but they weren't really "injuries" just a bit of a bump and a cry

But they must sue! Clearly someone must accept blame!

you don't know your child is a "tipper" till they start tipping it though do you?

No, you don't, which is why anyone with half a brain puts it on the floor, away from other furniture. All the US cases that have led to the recall involve the seat being on a table or similar. Why is that the manufacturer's fault? At what point does the parent think about what is sensible? No, they just do something stupid then scream because there was an accident. That's what annoys me.

Yes, Raspberry, great and very useful. Try and get secondhand as they are pricey.

Someone always has to be to blame! ds has a snug (similar thing) and he might manage to get out of it one day. Won't matter though, as he'll be on the floor, on a carpet, not near any sharp objects!

Raspberry ds loves his baby snug

I think a lot of the injuries (including skull fractures) happened whilst on the floor - otherwise they wouldn't have had to recall them.

I don't use them myself but assume that the parents I know who've had probs with them assumed they were designed not to tip

TBH if its possible to tip em up on a table then how do you figure its not possible to tip em up on the floor? the consequences of tipping on the floor might be less, but still unpleasant for the baby!

They sell a cheap version at ASDA with a tray.

i had read that some of the cases involved children on the floor actually...?

hence the recall.

i guess if you have a hard floor and your baby tips it over then that could cause a fairly bad injury.

I agree that used with supervision they're fine, but like others have said, you don't realise your child can tip it over until they do it- and unless you're right next to them you wouldn't be able to prevent it.

all 3 of mine could get out of the bumbo

How is tipping it over any different to your child being sat on the floor and falling backwards which my DS used to do all the time

"How is tipping it over any different to your child being sat on the floor and falling backwards"

its very different because the way they'ld fall will be much more awkward with their legs fixed in a seat that's going one way IYKWIM so more likely to hurt

Both my boys feel out of their bumbo while it was on the floor. No damage, just a little cry but I won't be using one for DD.

I had one for DD2 - but after some near misses when she almost fell out it was sent to the garage. They are inherently dangerous as lots of babies don't just sit quietly in them.

Ok i'm one of the stupid ones who ignored the instructions and sat DS in his bumbo on the kitchen worktop whilst I cut up veg. So right next to him. I literally turned to one side for a second and in the blink of an eye he'd thrown himself out of it. My husband rugby lept across thr room and got him before he hit the floor.

I know we were idiots - so don't need flaming - after that I let DH cook the tea.

Bumbo surrounded with pillows, perhaps?

That wasn't aimed at you, PicaK! Just planning..

"Bumbo surrounded with pillows, perhaps?"
that would surely make the bumbo a bit redundant?

do yu have a link?

surely like everything else, it depends on safe usage?