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Are Your Infant’s Sleeping Accommodations Safe when you Travel?

September 12, 2016 by kidstra

Safety alert! When traveling, many parents put their infants to bed in unsafe positions or locations, increasing the risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) and other injuries. 1. Safe sleeping arrangements are often difficult to duplicate away from home. Until infants are one year of age they should be put to bed on their […]

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Winter Driving / Safety / Infants / Car Seats

January 3, 2016 by kidstra

Comments on our most recent article: Winter Driving/Safety/Infants/Car seats We have the greatest readers – and they keep us on our toes! Many are experts on various aspects of keeping kids healthy and safe for travel and outdoor activities, which is our focus. Within eight hours of posting our latest article, we heard from three […]

Filed Under: Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel, Sun Tagged With: car seats, carseat, children, cold, hazards, ice, Infants, perspiration, safety, snow, snow country, snow ice, sun protection, winter

Infants/Baby carriers/Hazards

August 16, 2013 by kidstra

Warning: Carrying infants in baby carriers can be hazardous for both  infants and adult carriers. Problems arise when parents wear carriers incorrectly, are unaware that carriers are particularly dangerous for certain infants, and parents cannot be notified when infant carriers are recalled for newly found defects, says the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Here […]

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Children / car seats

April 7, 2013 by kidstra

Keeping young kids safe and comfortable in car seats is ever more complicated. The seats are becoming more sophisticated, costly and difficult to install correctly, and are subject to frequent recalls and changes in height/weight and facing forward/facing backward issues.  Complicating matters even further, thousands of children are injured each year due to the misuse […]

Filed Under: Outdoor Recreation, Travel Tagged With: car seat inspection station, car seats, children car seats, infant, infant car seats, kids, safercar.gov, safety

Driving/Distractions from Children

February 8, 2013 by kidstra
driver safety

Crying infants and unruly children may be greater distractions for a driver who is the only adult in a car than are texting or using a cell phone. Undisciplined and unrestrained pets also present problems. 1. Driver distraction causes 80% of crashes and 65% of near-crashes. Surveys show that children are four times as distracting […]

Filed Under: Outdoor Recreation, Safe & Healthy Travel, Travel Tagged With: accident, car seats, cars, children, distractions kids, driver distraction, Driving, driving distractions, fuel, gps, kids, Pets, prepare, Prevention, safety, teenagers

New Recommendations for Infant Car Safety Seats

May 19, 2011 by kidstra
infant car seat

Just when you thought that you knew all you had to know about children’s car safety seats, the experts come up with a slew of new recommendations, forcing you to rethink what you were sure that you already knew. 1. The new recommendations:  Children should ride in rear-facing safety seats until they are two years […]

Filed Under: Outdoor Recreation, Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel, Travel Tagged With: AAP, car accidents, car seats, children, front-facing car seats, infant car safety seats, kids car seats, kids travel doctor, nhtsa, parents, pediatrics, rear-facing safety seats, safe car seats

Health Alert: Infants/Car Seats/Hazardous Away from Cars

June 16, 2010 by kidstra
Car Seat

Infant cars seats – when infants are aboard – belong strapped into the back seat of cars where they prevent injuries and save lives. They do NOT belong on beds, couches, chairs or kitchen counters, says the American Academy of Pediatrics. Car seats are not totally stable when standing alone. Sometimes they are accidentally tipped […]

Filed Under: Prevention, Safe & Healthy Travel Tagged With: car seats, infant car seats, Infants, Kids Travel Doc

Infants/sleeping/away from home/cribs/health and safety

April 5, 2010 by sonicblum

Before traveling with an infant, consider the following: How will he or she sleep (or not sleep) away from home? Should your infant sleep in your bed? Are car seats OK for overnight sleeping? Are hand-me-down cribs at grandmother’s house acceptable? What about cribs available in hotels? Are portable travel cribs safe? Here is what […]

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