Sling Carriers Posing Danger of Suffocation to the Young Babies: CPSC Warned the Users

Sling carriers for babies have become very common now days because of the ease which they bring in carrying a baby and keeping him close to yourself whether you are at work, at home, or doing a walk.

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Recently US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has made this announcement that they are researching 14 infants deaths linked to the sling-style baby carriers over the last 20 years and the three cases are from last year. Basically the sling carrier is made up of a very soft cloth and gives a look of a sling that you wear when your arm is broken; the ease of carrying baby in the sling carriers is too much because you don’t need to hold the baby and hands get relatively free when baby gets hangs over your chest.

After the research on the death of babies the CPSC found that the muscles of a baby’s neck are not so strong in the early stages of his life that they can control the head, and if the head sags in the sling portion and the chins bend down towards the chest then baby don’t have the power to carry his head to safer position and ultimately there are higher chances of death with suffocation. So mothers have to be careful and they should better avoid such young babies to carry in the sling carriers and even if they are carrying then they should maintain the safer position of baby throughout.