Isn’t it amazing how much your view of the entire world changes when you become a parent? You see everything through new eyes…at first, things just look a little blurrier due to sleep deprivation, and then you begin the process of viewing everything through the “safety lens.” For me, the entire world became one big safety hazard, but then I got over the initial tendency to be obsessive and overprotective, and now I’m just really, really careful (as I’m sure all you moms out there can understand.)

So, in the interest of making the world just a little safer for all the babies out there, I’d like to share what I feel is one of the most important baby safety rules, and one of the most frequently broken.

I’ve spent many years working in retail, and before I was a mom, I never thought twice about seeing baby carriers perched high atop the child seat in a shopping cart. Now, the very thought of it sends a chill down my spine.

Many people will argue that their carrier is made to attach to the front of a grocery cart. I don’t know what every car seat/travel system/carrier manufacturer states in their safety guidelines, but I will tell you without a doubt that shopping carts are not designed to accommodate those carriers.

Many carriers click to attach to a car seat or stroller in a travel system, so it may seem if your carrier fits, or even “clicks” or “latches” onto the bar on the shopping cart, it is safe and secure. This is absolutely not true, and quite misleading. Just the mere weight of the carrier and baby is enough to throw off the balance of the cart, making it likely to tip over if your baby throws their weight to one side, or if someone else hits your cart.

Years ago, I was at work and saw a mother with 2 children shopping. In a split second, her older child ran up to the side of the cart and jumped on, upsetting the balance of the cart and causing it to tip. My heart stopped as I saw the carrier teetering and the cart ready to go onto its side. The baby nearly fell out onto the cement floor.

It was a very lucky day. A few groceries were the only casualties that day, as the mother caught and steadied the cart before any damage was done. But there are stories in the news all the time, and some other mothers haven’t been so lucky. The worst part? It’s a pointless and totally avoidable accident.

I work on the corporate side of retail now, but I still shop often (probably too often!) I don’t say anything when I see it, but I’d venture to guess that at least 8 out of 10 babies I see in stores sit high atop a shopping cart. I’m not sure why. No one wants to put their baby at risk, so I would assume that most people just don’t know.

Our baby is sitting up in the front of the cart now (which poses its own new set of safety issues!) but when he was little, we were always very careful to sit his carrier safely down inside the cart. I urge all parents out there to consider doing the same. It keeps baby safe and secure, with the added bonus of keeping stranger’s hands further away and cutting down your grocery bill (you just can’t fit as much when your cart is full of baby!)

Wendy @ ABCs and Garden Peas

http://abcsandgardenpeas.com/

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I am so excited to have everyone joining us tonight!  As promised, we are going to give you come clues to the questions that are going to be asked tonight, as well as some of the answers. Everything is going to be focused around baby safety, and each correct answer is your change to win one of our great list of prizes!

Some of the awesome gifts you can win tonight :

• Earth Mama Angel Baby A Little Something for Baby
• Earth Mama Angel Baby Angel Baby Kit
• Valco Matrix Stroller
• 3 Valco GloBugz
• 1 Set of Wonder Bumpers from Go Mama Go Designs
• Organic Kidz BPA Free Bottle
• Harmony Booster Seat
• My Little Seat
• Scandanavian Child Eurotote
• Dream Baby Extra Tall Swinging Gate
• 3 Snug and Tug Swaddling Blankets from Go Mama Go Designs
• Chic Clean Diner Pink Safari by Clean Shopper
• Chic Super Soft Clean Shopper Pink Safari

That is a ton of stuff totally way over $1000 of prizes that a ton of lucky moms will pick up in our celebration of baby safety month!

Some of the products we are featuring tonight are cutting edge in safety, and like the Earth Mama Angel Baby products, the safety products we can use for our children. According to national registries of chemicals, Earth Mama Angel Baby products are the safest to use on your little one. They have the least amount of toxic chemicals!

Did you know the number one reason children ages 0-5 are taken to the Emergency room is falls to the head? A ton of head injuries that could be prevented!  Especially because the top three places children fall from are Cribs, infant carriers, and strollers.  All preventable injuries if children were properly secured, or crib mattresses were properly lowered. Another negative to traditional crib bumpers that plans into this is, children often use them to climb. They make a great little boost to help a crib escape artist fall out of their crib!

In children ages 0-5 the most deaths take place in their cribs, and what exactly causes these deaths? Entrapment and strangulation due to presence of crib bedding, mainly caused by unsafe, unfitting bedding, and traditional crib bumpers, which is why Catherine, and Georgia of Go Mama Go worked so hard to create the Wonder Bumper which is the safest option in crib bedding today!

Pressurized gates at the top of a stairway are NOT safe, if your little one trips, and falls onto the gate, they and the gate will go down the stairs. Stick to a gate the screws into the wall for stair ways.

If you are going to be joining us tonight, please take a moment to sign our crib bedding safety petition. Every signature will truly make a difference, especially during baby safety month.

For easiest, and most efficient results during our party tonight, go to www.tweetgrid.com and click on party, and enter the information.  Host name is GoMamaGoDesigns and the Hashtag is #SafeBaby

Happy Tweeting tonight!  See you at 9:00pm EST!

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Since our project is so new, we are actively looking for women and mothers who are interested in guest posting about certain subjects. Some of the areas we are looking for include :

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If you would like to submit a post to us, please email SocialMedia@GoMamaGoDesigns.com and we will be in contact shortly!

It is no secret that we are working on something big for Baby Safety month in September. Being a company that directly focuses on safe products for our children and ensuring a safe sleep space your your baby is a huge priority of ours.

I am excited to announce our first Twitter Party!  If you aren’t familiar with what a Twitter party is, I will explain. First things first. You need to be a member of twitter, so if you aren’t already, head over to twitter.com and sign up!
Next, follow us on twitter!  That is a requirement to win a prize in our giveaway!  Go Mama Go Designs on Twitter.

For a twitter party, you have to sign up, and tune in at a specific time, which will be September 15th at 9pm till 1030 pm Eastern Standard Time!  It is very important you check out what time that will be in your own time zone if you are not on the east coast!

All of the questions will be under the Hash Tag #SafeBaby, meaning to follow it live you can search #SafeBaby, or go to TweetGrid.com and click on Party and type in the information asked!

The day of the twitter party, we will post a page of information on baby safety here on our blog. All of the questions we will be asking during the twitter party, the answers will be found here on our blog in the post.

Check out all the great prizes you can win!

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Not only did I have the chance to try out an Organickidz BPA free stainless steel baby bottle with my youngest son this past week, but I am also happy to share we are going to be giving one away in our Baby Safety Month Twitter Party we are having on September 15th!

A couple great things I noticed about this bottle right off the bat were :

• Great design
• Keeps drinks colder longer
• Incredibly easy to wash!

I am happy that we were able to try this out before adding them to our giveaways for the Twitter party, because they are truly a company that I stand behind, and use with my own children.

Visit their website at : Organickidz.ca

Many of our readers, and followers may have heard us talking about our MISSION petition, and wondering what exactly that means. Now that the blog is up and running, and doing well I wanted to talk about MISSION and the crib bumper petition we are working on.  Currently stuck with just over 50 signatures, and looking to make it to 1000 before September.

This is where we need your help!  50 names on a petition may be a good amount, but it is not going to a large consumer safety organization to push in the direction we need to be moving.

So who is MISSION?  MISSION stands for Mothers Investigating Safe Sleep Options for Newborns. Something that we clearly need in our country since there are so many crib related injuries annually. Recently the Nap Nanny was re-called because of an infant death, when the culprit of the death was suffocation on the crib bumper.  The crib bumpers were not investigated or even cited in any publications as a hazard.

What is the petition about or include?  Per the Petition website :

“We the undersigned, alongside MISSION, Mothers Investigating Safe Sleep Options for Newborns, are urgently requesting parents, physicians, medical professionals, and our local government, all who have a vital interest in the well-being of America’s children, to call to action an investigation of traditional crib bumpers. Without your help, countless parents will unknowingly put their child at risk.

By signing this petition, you will help heighten awareness, increase interest in safe sleeping environments for babies, and most importantly express that traditional bumpers are dangerous, should not be used in a child’s crib and that the Consumer Product Safety Commission should take action to investigate the deaths caused by this product.”

Interested in getting involved or just signing the petition?
Visit this website to have your voice heard!

Who doesn’t love the chance to win something from a great giveaway sponsored by a great company?  Today we are starting a new giveaway on the Go Mama Go Designs Blog!  We are going to give away a set of teething guards (one set of 4) to one lucky winner!

We are all about baby safety, and how to keep your little ones safe in their cribs, so teething guards are just another way to not only save your baby from chewing on their crib, but also save your crib from your teething baby!  (I know my oldest did a number on ours!)

So you want to know how you can enter?

Each 2 things on the list below will enter you one time!
(Please leave a comment per entry)

1. Follow Go Mama Go Designs on Twitter!
2. Become a fan of Go Mama Go Designs on Facebook!
3. Subscribe to our blog on the top right hand Google Friends Connect ——>
4. Tell us why teething guards are important to crib safety for you and your family!

Good Luck!

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