Ebony&Markus

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Tayside and Central | Buggy direction 'affects child'

What do you think?

Kimi

Every child I've ever taken care of has been more interested in its surroundings, than of face-to-face interaction.
And facing away's never stopped them talking to me, or me to them.

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Lenore

i dont know it does make sense if there of an age where they can sit up they can still see the world around them tbh though ive just missed having marius facing me when he does go in his buggy so i might use this to convince dave to let me turn him around again

Sally Buttons

Don't worry about it, it's just another thing the so-called experts have thought up to make mothers feel like shite. Babies like to see the world around them, and it's not like you just have them in the buggy for hours on end.

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Lenore

but you see marius does spend a long time in the buggy sometimes from about 8.30 in the morning when hes in for the school run then ill walk into town and wander around town get some lunch for us and come home after picking kids up at about 3.30 so saving nappy changes and lunch hes in their for 6 hours we dont have a car so even if its not a school day whenever were off out hes kind of isolated from the rest of us often for a fair few hours

Meiko

I've currently got 3 pushchairs as it is.. one, the first I bought is a pram/pushchair but damned heavy and I just use the carrycot for Alex to sleep in at night. One is a buggy pushchair, which I got second hand cause of the first being too damn heavy for me to lug up and down stairs and the last is a pushchair/carseat combo, which I just use the carseat in my mum's car and put the pushchair bit away.
I would dearly like a pushchair where my son faces me as he's so young atm I feel I need to be able to see his face especially as sometimes he can bring up a bit of milk and I don't notice till its all down around his neck when I've stopped somewhere. As for the social side, I'm an avid fan of attached parenting and although I don't follow it totally myself, I can see the advantages of the child facing you - particularly very young children (under age of 14 months)

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Ebony&Markus

As Meiko says I think it depends on the age of the child. I always used to face mine towards me when I was sitting down on the bus or in cafe etc. Also when the sun was shining put the hood back and talk to them so they always knew I was there. When they were a bit older they preferred to look at the world around them.

They should make buggies for smaller babies facing the parent or even better ones where you can change the direction the child faces.

Anorah

The combo (carseat and stroller) sets we have here make it so as an infant, they ride in the carseat (that detaches from a base in the car) and locks onto the stroller, facing the parent. When they are older they don't need the carseat part to sit in and you just stick them in the normal stroller bit and they face outward. Our carseats go up to about 21 pounds or so, and at 15 months old Alex is only just now over the weight limit.

Meiko

There's another problem with that though, babies shouldn't be in carseats for too long as its not good for their backs. They need to lie down flat, which is kind of why I insisted on buying a pushchair that had a seperate carrycot.
I did the usual thing (which by now I should know better) of mentioning about the pushchair facing to my mum, all she could say was. These experts keep coming up with all these new things, it never hurt in our day. She also says this when I mention about the weaning before 6 months etc and now about how many vaccinations babies have.

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Anorah

Yeah it isnt good in carseats either.. Luckily my Alex was born in summer (so we didnt go anywhere because it was too hot and she was too tiny) and then it turned into winter and it was too cold to go anywhere! Things do change, and some things seem silly compared to what our mothers did, but some really make all the difference. Figure the sleep on the back thing cuts SIDS down drastically. I was put to sleep on my stomach as a child as that is what they told our mothers to do (at least here in the US).

Ive pretty much skipped every 12 month vaccination for Alex, and I dont plan on doing them if at all until shes after 2. Some not at all. Its insane. There was a study done that here, the MMR (measles mumps and rubella) could lead to autism. A study which autistic children vs their non autistic siblings.. And the autistic children had the live measle virus from the vaccine in their spinal fluid and intestines, whereas the non-autistic sibling did not..

Thats enough to make me wait it out alone.

Kimi

BBC NEWS | Health | 'No link' between MMR and autism
Studies that prove it...
Studies that disprove it...
Which do you believe?

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Ebony&Markus

I don't believe there is any link between the MMR and autism. Not being immunised is really really dangerous, and measles is a really serious disease. I never believed the hype. Without the immunisations there could be an epidemic of these diseases. Both my kids had the MMR and are perfectly fine as are all the kids in their school and nursery who all receieved it as well.

Anorah

I figure like this, something is clearly going on. Vaccination, environmental, broader ranges in which to diagnose ect ect.. Its something Id rather not chance. We have a Dr out here called Dr. Sears and he put out a book basically weighing the pros and cons of each vaccination. Obviously not every vaccine turns every child autistic, but with the way that every person is different, different people are predisposed to different things, some have allergies, some do not, some can handle sicknesses better than others, I think there are certain people where the vaccines effect differently. Its a personal choice for me, that I researched before her shots were due and we made the decision to wait. There is a lot of icky stuff in those shots, and when they are little it is hard sometimes for their little bodies to handle the toxicity. I dont bag on anyone for deciding to vaccinate their children however they wish, I really do believe it comes down to a personal choice. Alex hasnt had her chickenpox shot, and will not either until she is over the age of 8. When she does have the MMR, it will be in separate doses. To give her body time to process each one before loading her up with another. It just isnt something I want to chance at the end of the day. Also my daughter does not spend very much time with other children, she is not in day care and her time with other people is limited due to the fact that I stay home with her. She does not have the same risk factors as children who do end up going into daycare, or eventually school. If she did I would rethink my choices as Ebony has said there are certain things such as measles which can go badly.

Meiko

My little Alex is due his first vaccinations next week. I'm not looking forward to it at all as I've a phobia of needles myself and when I heard him crying from having his heel prick tests done it made me want to punch the midwife.

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Anorah

I cry along with Alex every time its shot time.