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Bumbo recall - dumbo parents?

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deliakate · 15/08/2012 14:25

uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/15/uk-usa-recall-bumbo-idUKBRE87E0EO20120815

It seems Bumbo are recalling seat in the US - you can send it back for a safety strap to be added. But not in the UK. Question is, who puts things like this on elevated surfaces in the first place, fgs?

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Socknickingpixie · 16/08/2012 13:02

MrsKeith

do you not think its possible that they only reason i know that these 11 people have them is because there kids have been taken to A&E due to an accident in them? and only know about the other one because i saw it in a house. ofcourse many other people i know may have them but i just dont know that they do?

JonnySafetyJunkie · 16/08/2012 14:37

The US recall covers injuries caused when the child flips out when on the floor. US consumers should request a safety strap that is intended to prevent this (the seat already contains a warning not to place it on a raised surface). By not providing a strap for UK parents, were a child of an age the product is designed for to fall out and injure themselves when the seat is used on a floor, - the company would now be liable since they have provided a means to prevent this - but not for UK parents.

MrsKeithRichards · 17/08/2012 19:30

Sock considering the figure for reported accidents with a bumbo is about 30 I'd say you were pretty lucky to know a third of them.

Socknickingpixie · 17/08/2012 19:36

or i have an office in a hospital

HoopDePoop · 17/08/2012 19:51

MrsKeith I didn't bother reporting my DS's accident despite it leaving a bruise, it would be classified as a 'near miss' and I'm sure there will have been hundreds if not thousands of them. It's the only product I own that threatened DS safety by using it as it was designed to be used!

Birdsgottafly · 17/08/2012 19:58

We have them in our Children's Centre, they are used during supervised contacts, as well in the nursery.

Babies should be supervised when they are in them, they are not an alternative to a bouncy chair etc, as you shouldn't leave the room whilst using one.

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KatMumsnet · 22/08/2012 10:26

Hi there, just to let you know we've moved this out of AIBU and into In The News (as it's not really an AIBU type of thread). Thanks.

OneLittleToddlingTerror · 22/08/2012 10:39

DD has fell out of it, on the floor. But then it's the same distance she'd had fell when she was learning to sit. Mine was 7mo when she could sit unaided, and only a bit later that she could escape from one. Maybe if yours can escape before they started trying to go from lying down to sitting?

Obviously anyone putting the bumbo on a raised surface is an idiot. A buckle wouldn't make that safer. The bumbo gets quite wobbly when a child is trying to wriggle themselves out. Easily can be wobbled down from the dining table.

perfectstorm · 22/08/2012 11:00

I was in John Lewis when DS was about 6 months and another mother there told me to get one. She said it was great because she could put her DD on the kitchen counter next to her while she cooked.

I was Shock and she laughed kindly and said, he's your first, isn't he?

I've always wondered what happened with her poor little girl - whether she fell or not. This doesn't reassure me much.

Pyrrah · 22/08/2012 11:18

I thought it looked great and got one for DD at 4 months.

Within 20 minutes she had worked out that if she arched her back and threw herself backwards she could get out. After the 2nd time she whacked her head on the wooden floor (thought first time might have been fluke) it went back in the box, so lasted less than an hour.

Gave it to my brother and their son happily sat in it for months and never once tried to escape...

Frontpaw · 22/08/2012 11:23

I saw a baby (not a tiny one but looked about 6 months) in one on top of a table in restaurant last week. I did think it looked odd and wondered who would bring one to a restaurant (bimbo not baby) rather than one of those fabric ones we used to use.

pookey · 22/08/2012 11:24

sounds like they should invent a large bumbo! tbh never had one but bathing sounds like it would be safer so long as parent had a hand on baby at all times . My children did slip a couple of times when too active splashing while I was holding them in the bath, not exactly immersed underwater but still a scare.

Frontpaw · 22/08/2012 11:25

Actually, last week when I was sauntering down the road nosing through the open windows, well they really should have curtains or blinds I saw a dad doing some washing up and a little girl perched in her bumbo on the worktop next to him, also next to an open window.

Bimbo! Haha autocorrect!!

pookey · 22/08/2012 11:28

a buckle might give a false sense of security.

hoodoo12345 · 22/08/2012 17:54

My DS couldn't stand his, complete waste of money.

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