Recalls on Strollers, Baby cribs, and more...

The CPSC recently held a unanimous vote for new rules that will require hefty regulations for baby product manufactures. The regulations will require all manufacturers to keep track of product owners. Manufactures will be required to provide consumers with a postage-page registration form. Once the consumer fills out and returns the form, the manufacturer must keep their information on file.

The CPSC hopes this will help consumers find out about recalls faster. Recalls that may be life threatening to their infant or toddler.

Three major recalls were in issued in 2009 after serious injuries occurred in infants and toddlers. The CPSC issued a recall for nearly 500,000 infant car seats after a defective handle was found to put children at serious risk for injury during car accidents. Another recall involving cribs was issued after the defective product caused injuries and bruising to infants and toddlers. The third recall was issued after several children suffered finger amputations. In that recall over two millions strollers were affected.

Hopefully the new regulations imposed by the CPSC will help parents keep their children safe from dangerous and defective products.

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Maclaren didn't Recall thier Strollers in Japan

On Nov. 11, Maclaren, a British maker of baby strollers, learned this the hard way. It had recalled some of its strollers in the United States but not in Japan. This prompted Mizuho Fukushima, minister in charge of consumer affairs, to make a public call to refrain from using these strollers altogether.

This call was delivered with the full punch of a press club that was briefed on the topic exclusively by the agency but without any input from the company.

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Baby, Stroller + Cell phone, I Pod...= Quality Time Spend with Your Child?

I got some reflection about babies, parents and a quality of the time they spend together.
I see lots of parents pushing strollers with their babies and talking on cell-phones, texting or listening to music on I Pods... My reflection made me ask the question: are technical gadgets driving us from spending quality time with our kids?
Giving attention to children and spending time with them is very important to both, you and your kids. There are many benefits coming from the quality time that we spend with our children, regardless from their ages. Kids need our attention always, when they are infants, toddlers, at school age, and after that...
Sometimes we forget about this. We take our babies for walk in strollers but somebody calls us so we answer the cell-phone and talk for a a few minutes or while strolling we listen to music coming from our I Pod, or texting... instead of entertaining our kids, talking to them, and answering their questions. Children always have many questions to us but do we have time to answer them?
I think we parents should leave our gadgets at home when strolling with kids or not use them. Spending quality time with children will benefit in their development, mental and emotional. It will also benefit us in many ways.

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Texthook - Convenient Stroller Gadget for busy Parents

Texthook is a cool new gadget that allows multi-tasking people to text while pushing a stroller at the same time.
It's the perfect accessory for busy parents.
A gizmo called Texthook lets parents strap phones to the bars of their strollers so they can text and e-mail without missing a step.

The company that makes them said about 100 of the $30 devices have been bought since they went on sale last week.

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You have ONLY 30-35 seconds to fold a baby stroller to get on train

Did you hear the story...
"A mother has serious questions for Regional Transit after a light rail train took off with her 1-year-old daughter on board. Brittney Robinson said she was having trouble getting her stroller folded up and onto the train at a Sacramento station, so she told the driver to wait. Robinson said another passenger helped her by holding the baby while she got the stroller folded and stowed. However, she said, the train left anyway...
The mother said she believes the driver left without her on purpose. She said she was crying and "hysterical" when a transit guard came to her assistance. "He shouldn't have been as rude as he was to me," Robinson said. Regional Transit spokeswoman Alane Masui said the train operator reported a child was separated from the mother after the train departed from the Power Inn Station. Masui said a transit guard went with the mother on the next train that was headed to the University/65th Street station. According to Robinson, the driver drove the train past that station -- where the woman holding the baby was waiting -- and the RT dispatcher made the driver go back so the mother and child could be reunited. The mother and child were separated for about 10 minutes, Masui said. "I felt like I had been away from my daughter forever," Robinson said. The train operator would not intentionally separate a mother and a child, Masui said, and wasn't aware of the situation until after the train pulled out. RT said there are signs at stations asking parents to fold up strollers before boarding. Loading time for trains is about 30 to 35 seconds, Masui said."

So parents fold your baby stroller quick because the train won't wait for you!

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Graco Quattro Strollers - best rated by Consumer Reports

Graco Baby Strollers and Travel Systems:
Single models, Graco Metrolite, Literider, Quattro Tour, Quattro Sport, are great products. Snugrider is an option for snapngo, which you use with a baby carrier and an infant car seat. Graco travel systems are comparable with many higher priced brands. In the line of double strollers they feature tandem models- Graco Duo Quattro and Duoglider and side by side models- Graco Twin. All of them come in a nice gallery of colors and shades.
According to Consumer Reports Graco Quattro Tour Sport is the highest rated in a single stroller category. It gets an excellent score for easy of use, maneuverability, and durability, good for safety. This model has 5-point harness, one touch brakes, suitable for babies 6 months old and under, car seat compatible, trays for parents and children, extra storage, and stands folded.

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Baby Planners

Between 60 and 70 baby planners have started offering services in the United States in the last few years. Baby planners offer researched recommendations on baby products, like strollers, baby bassinets, and cribs, and make referrals to and do interviews with possible nannies and midwives.
Many clients are busy professional women or pregnant women who live far away from their families. Baby planners charge rates from around $50 to $150 an hour or by packages, which can cost several hundred to several thousand dollars.

But there also can be opposite pressure from the longtime idea that parents should want to do everything for their children, said Parenting magazine senior editor Christina Vercelletto. "A lot of it has to do with the expectation that anything to do with a baby is something that a mother should want to do," she said.

Vercelletto said baby planners can alleviate stress and be useful to parents who can afford the services, but there are plenty of other good resources available, such as advice from friends and family, for parents who can't pay for any extra help.

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