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October 2011 Moms
Brie2006
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PSA: Mittens
Brie2006
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MH and I went to a basics of baby care class over the weekend at our hospital. The nurse teaching the class informed us that 6 babies had died in South Florida this year from choking on mittens meant to keep babies from scratching their faces.
It seems that the babies are putting their mitten covered hands in their mouths and when pulling their hands away, the mittens are getting caught in their mouths.
I hadn't thought of this possibility before. I went home and threw out all of the mittens we had purchased. I plan on just filing DS's nails with a baby emory board.
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Re: PSA: Mittens
the only mittens i use are those that are attached to long sleeve onesies--LO can't get them off.
You can get the long-sleeved onesies that have the mittens attached. That way, if baby does happen to pull away the mitten doesn't come away in his mouth but remains attached to the sleeve.
I've never heard of this and it seems a little fear-mongering, KWIM? I mean be careful yes, but it seems a little extreme to throw out all the mittens.
I get what you are saying but I figured that the risk didn't seem any greater than the suffocating risk associated with bumpers and bumpers are treated as if they are death traps.
Filing LO's nails or buying onsies with mittens attached doesn't seem like a big hardship so I figure why risk it?
We had these with DD but they never stayed on very well and ended up ditching them very soon after she was born. She she was sleeping she was mostly swaddled anyway, so there was no need to have mittens on her.
We have 1 pair for DS just in case. Otherwise the outfits with the mittens attached are what we will be using...
Praying for Baby Camryn
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Remembering Baby Adam
maybe I will just use the mittens when I am awake with her or someone else is watching her.
That's what we did with DD. It was nbd.
An alternative to the mittens is that most newborn onesies actually have the little fold over piece on them, where you can just fold the fabric over their hands.
ETA: Sorry, I just saw the 500 other posts saying this same thing.
When my son was in the NICU, he used to wear mittens that we tied with a ribbon...
Just a thought, though... Aren't babies supposed to breathe only through their noses? I'm pretty confident that newborns don't have the reflex to breathe through their mouths.
Yeah, we just used socks. They actually stay on, especially if you pull them up over your LO's sleeves. Mittens are waste of $$.