So when people's babies fall asleep on a car journey, do you not bring the car seat in and let them sleep longer? Even if they are positioned well and have the monitor directly on them with no blankets etc?
Do you wake them up after the car journey to get them out?
I didn't realise this was so bad. I don't have a doona but if my little one falls asleep in the car I usually bring her into the house in the car seat. She's 1 now
Unless it’s a lay flat car seat you’re supposed to take them out as it restricts their airways and causes positional asphyxiation. Current advice has changed from a max of 2 hours in a car seat to 30mins but I would say people aren’t stopping every 30 mins. If I were going to push it past 2 hours, I definitely wouldn’t rely on a monitor.
There are things that can be argued as OTT or over cautious and things where hundreds of children have died and this is the latter. It’s dangerous, no question.
A woken baby is better than a baby that can’t breathe. In a car, you have to rely on monitoring them but at home there’s absolutely no reason for them to be in a car seat. Head restraints to keep them from flopping are also incredibly dangerous and there are multiple cases of them causing death.
The feminism thing - the woman’s retort, while making good points was also horrendously condescending. Saying the young woman has a teeny tiny brain is not educating, it’s bullying. An older, smarter lady picking on a young woman. And the caption about her being a “basic bland white flour pick me girl”. It’s woman bashing.
