There are subtleties in transporting babies up to six months. It turns out that you cannot tighten belts too tight. In order for the child to breathe freely, the palm of an adult should freely pass between his body and belts. There are subtleties in transporting babies up to six months. It turns out that you cannot tighten belts too tight. In order for the child to breathe freely, the palm of an adult should freely pass between his body and belts.
You have a new family member. While the wife is in the hospital, everything has already been prepared for the meeting of the little man at home. And then came the day of discharge. The wife settles in the back seat of the car. You give her a magic envelope, she carefully presses it to her …
Stop! You forgot about the child seat.
You cannot transport children without a special device. Even if a couple of kilometers to the house. Here are the statistics that cause cold on the back: in 2015, 62 children under 12 years of age died in road traffic crashes, and 1, 240 children were injured. These are just the cases when children were transported without car seats. There were 1063 such accidents.
Why do fathers and mothers neglect elementary safety rules? In most cases, due to ignorance. At preparatory courses for pregnant women, they teach how to properly bear a baby, give birth, take care of a newborn. And not a word about how to protect a small passenger from the very first trip in the car - from the maternity hospital to his own.
In the capital, such an educational program was organized in a single hospital. Thanks to the initiative of the expert center "Movement without danger" in the Scientific Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology. IN AND. Kulakova practitioners tell expectant mothers how to choose a child seat, how to transport a child and what to pay special attention to.
- First of all, the car seat must be appropriate for the age of the child. In no case should you buy it for growth. For example, only the restraint of group 0 or 0+ is suitable for the infant.
- You can’t buy products from unknown companies: they often use poor-quality materials, which in the best case can cause an allergy in the baby, and in the worst, scatter during an accident, not fulfilling their main mission.
- The chair is installed against the direction of travel, in the middle of the rear seat or behind the front passenger.
- Ideally, the baby should be accompanied. Often, the mothers who drive the car are distracted from the road when the baby is crying, and this is fraught with an emergency on the road.
- In babies up to six months, the chest during breathing has a sufficiently large amplitude. Therefore, between the seat belts and the body of the child should pass the palm of an adult. After six months, the belts should be tightened sufficiently tightly.
- Safe travel time - no more than three hours. During this period, the baby’s body will not be harmed. If you need to go longer, take a short break - stop, hold the baby in your arms, massage it, feed it.
- It is not permissible to leave a child in a car without adult supervision. A car can be stolen; in the end, another car can crash into it.
Of course, such classes are useful and should be conducted in each maternity hospital. According to Natalia Agra, president of the Movement without Danger expert center, this initiative found support in the Ministry of Health. The center is ready to provide manuals, training materials, train maternity hospital staff - but there is not enough funding.