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Do You Have The Right Stroller For Baby?

by Barbara McPherson | November 24, 2008 at 10:40 am

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Here's something else for new moms to be anxious about. You may be making your baby anxious by the wrong sort of stroller.
Old fashioned carriages mostly faced backwards, towards the parent. Over the years more and more strollers faced the babies forward, away from the parent. Some recent work in Scotland seems to question the wisdom of using forward facing carriages.

Children pushed in forward-facing baby carriages are less likely to talk, laugh and interact, suggests a British study published Friday.

Researchers say children who are put in a position where they are not face to face with their parents or caregivers could suffer emotional and language problems down the road.

Parents using face-to-face baby carriages were twice as likely to talk to their children. In addition, their babies' heart rates fell and were twice as likely to fall asleep, an indicator that they were feeling relaxed and safe. Only one baby out of the 20 studied laughed while sitting in an away-facing carriage.

"Our data suggests that for many babies today, life in a buggy is emotionally impoverished and possibly stressful," said developmental psychologist Zeedyk. "Stressed babies grow into anxious adults."

This study would indicate that given the choice, you might choose the face to face type baby carriage.
When older mom's are facing the storms that come with adolescence they might remember this and think, "Aha, it was the stroller that I used when little Suzie was a baby." I can assure you that the adolescent storms come in spite of anything you did when Suzie was a baby. Like storms, these teenage tantrums will pass too.

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