Bumbo Warning

Posted by Rachel Lister Oct 26, 2007

The popular Bumbo seats have had a safety warning issued against them recently. Normally any safety recalls turn me off buying the product in the future but after reading the warning and the stories of infants who have been hurt using the product I am convinced that this safety warning has nothing to do with the safety of the product but rather the lack of common sense of some of the parents using it.

I have been a big fan of boppy pillows for years. Not only have I used it as a nursing pillow but as my babies have grown I have used it to help support them as they learned to sit. Like the Bumbo seat, the boppy pillow has no straps to retrain a child. It is simply meant to help support them as they sit with parental supervision. I would never even consider putting my child on the kitchen counter in the Bumbo seat or in a boppy pillow. Even if the seat had straps on it, it would not prevent an injury if the infant were to wiggle the seat itself off the counter.

All the babies injured as a result of the Bumbo seat were placed on a raised surface. The seats are designed to be used on the floor and have a warning printed right on the seat stating that. Any parent who wants to place their baby on the kitchen counter in any sort of device in my opinion is the one responsible for the consequences, not the company who made the product.

Do you agree with this safety warning?