In a report by New Zealand, pediatricians have warned that infants should not be kept in the car safety seats particularly if they are prematurely born.
There study was based on nine infants aged three days to six months. After allowing, their kids to fall asleep inside the car, the parents observed that their tots were ‘blue,’ ’scrunched up’ or ‘not breathing’.
Although the infants survived but the parents were warned not to leave the babies in the car seats for excessive periods of time.
Dr. Christopher Greeley, medical director of the newborn nursery at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville asserted,
‘The take-home message is that parents should not leave babies unattended in car seats. If you leave a very young baby in a car seat, the structure of the head, bigger in the back, can cause the airway, the trachea, to be narrowed’.
