Dont leave an infant in a car seat outside of a car

Dont leave your baby in an infant carrier to sleep!
If you are tempted, read these articles:
http://www.newhorizonacademy.net/dow…eat_Safety.pdf
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2709135&page=1
http://www.parenting.com/Common/phot…yID=1000021358

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Rear-facing car seats: What you need to know

Common Misunderstanding
There are many misunderstandings and misconceptions about the crash environment that lead even the best-intentioned parent or pediatrician to believe a child is “safe” facing forward when s/he is still very young. These come from obsolete ideas and advice that may still appear in [...]

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Car Seat Safety

Since we just bought an SUV, car seat safety is a big issue for me. We have never had an SUV before and apparently the 3d row in an SUV is the least safest area. So, I want to make sure we have the safety car seats that money can buy.
For my [...]

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Doctors are Lying? Be still my heart!! Wow!

Management of Suspected Fetal Macrosomia (which basically means “big baby”)
http://www.aafp. org/afp/20010115 /302.html
“A recent decision analysis estimated that to prevent one case of permanent brachial plexus injury, 3,700 women with an estimated fetal weight of 4,500 g would need to have an elective cesarean section for suspected macrosomia at a cost of $8.7 million per case [...]

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Study: Spanking can bring problems later

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080301/ap_ … ng_study_3
Study: Spanking can bring problems later
Fri Feb 29, 8:15 PM ET
DURHAM, N.H. – New research by a University of New Hampshire domestic abuse expert says spanking children affects their sex lives as adults. Professor Murray Straus concludes that children who are spanked are more likely as adults to coerce partners to have sex, [...]

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