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car seats and oxygen saturation

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Lara77 · 24/10/2007 22:37

I had had Mamas and Papas Primo Viaggio SIP car seat found it quite upright and borrowed one of my friends chicco. But unfortunately I used Primo Viaggio one until 16 weeks. I have been searching about car seats on the internet since last week and read horrible things about car seats and babies oxygen saturation. I was already quite depressed and had lots of worries about my baby's health anyway. After reading all those stuff my mood has deteriorated and I started feeling guilty about not doing enough research before buying the car seat. I keep worrying about any possible harmful effect of a car seat (I should have used a carry cot or lying flat car seat). Please help me, I think I need some support and reassurance...

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nannyL · 25/10/2007 18:47

I think the harmful effects of a car seat are far outweighed by the 'harmful effects of being unrestrained during a car crash'

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Lara77 · 25/10/2007 19:11

I must confess I did not know that very young babies need to lie flat all the time. So I used the travel system sometimes. Although I wasn't going out very frequently as far as I remember he stayed in the car seat continuously 1.5-2 hours in few occasions.This makes me feel much more guilty. Because I could have used the pram mode of the system but I just didn't know that sitting position would be harmfull.

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LIZS · 25/10/2007 19:17

Lara, dd had reflux and spent long period in a car seat and bouncy chair on the instructions of our Paediatrician particularly when she had bronchiolitis . You do what seems most appropriate at the time.

nappyaddict · 25/10/2007 20:13

edam - which is the other car seat that disentegrated apart from the jane?

nannyL · 25/10/2007 20:17

Im pretty sure it was a mamas and papas CARRYCOT car seat, but dont have the report infron of me to double check

LIZS · 25/10/2007 20:28

It was either a M and P or Bebeconfort autocarrycot . Not sure it was ever marketed as a car seat in UK anyway.

Loopymumsy · 25/10/2007 20:28

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Lara77 · 26/10/2007 01:07

I guess most of you are sleeping now but I wanted to share following research:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=16882803&ordinalpos=3&it ool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

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MeltingandScreamingIcarus · 26/10/2007 01:15

Lara - is there any particular reason you are worrying about oxygen saturation?

Is there any thing else that you are worrying about?

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Lara77 · 26/10/2007 01:55

I have been worried about lots of things postnatally. My anxiety is quite high most of the time and it is usually related to my ds's health. Although he is thriving well and HV, GP and everybody else say that he is a healthy baby I can't stop worrying. I have been started on antidepressant medication recently.

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theslownorris · 26/10/2007 07:13

If it's any consolation my dd4 has a congenital heart condition and her oxygen sats are low anyway (80%). When she was discharged from the cardiac unit nothing was said to us about avoiding certain car seats for that reason. In fact she used to spend a lot of time in a baby swing (similar position) due to reflux and it was the only way to settle her.

LIZS · 26/10/2007 08:28

So that one claims no marked difference. Lara please don't feed your anxiety based on such articles, they are taken out of context and unhelpful imho to anyone other than medical researchers who in turn may contradict them. Try to focus on enjoying your baby instead , he sounds lovely .

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Lara77 · 26/10/2007 23:47

Thank you very much theslownorris and LIZS. I will try to focus enjoying my baby. For the start, today, I joined a baby massage course which will start next week. Then went to baby GAP and bought him a very cute beret. I hope I will get better quickly.

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alyblackcat · 26/10/2007 23:56

My DD had a M&P car seat, she is now nearly 8 and very advanced for her age.

The only negative info I have ever read on car seats (not wishing to add to your anxieties) was that children should not be left in them for hours on end as it is not a good position for their spine to be in.

I am always (only mildly, as everyone makes their own choices with their DCs) concerned when we go to a particular out-of-town shopping centre and there are loads of tiny babes in cars seats/travel systems. I wonder how long these LOs will be/have been in that position?

jamila169 · 27/10/2007 00:17

Lara, your anxiety will lessen over time,please don't worry. As far as the car seat thing goes, you just can't compare US and euro seats -even when made by the same manufacturer the rules are very different.The most notable thing is that newborn wedges to flatten the seat and even headhuggers are not part of most US seats - they are sold as accessories, not as part of the whole package as they are here, plus if you compare, a lot of the us versions do seem a lot more upright than euro ones, maybe something to do with the type of cars generally used. It's one of those cases where looking at US research is pretty useless TBH
Lisa X

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