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Car seats should not be used as a place for infants to sleep, a study published today has found. University of Auckland researchers studied the breathing patterns of 78 infants during sleep while restrained in an infant car safety seat, with and without a foam plastic insert. The researchers found breathing problems are significantly reduced when the insert is used. However, Dr Christine McIntosh said the new study highlighted the importance of not using cars seats as a place for infants to sleep. "Given both the significant rate of events and the fall in mean oxygenation over time, the current study strongly reinforces recommendations that even with such an insert, young infants should never be left unattended in car seat carriers, or indeed any seat device, and that car seat use should be restricted to the minimum time required for essential travel," the researches said in the report published in the United States journal Pediatrics today. Dr McIntosh, from the Department of Physiology at The University of Auckland, said in the first few months of life, even full term infants restrained in their car safety seats often have brief periods of low oxygen saturation. "Sudden unexpected deaths in infants (SUDI) can occasionally occur in car seats or capsules," Dr McIntosh said. Dr McIntosh said that during the randomised controlled study researchers did discover that the use of the insert reduced the number of "stop breathing episodes" due to airway blockages and also reduced the fall in oxygen levels during these episodes. "Babies' heads usually slump forward when they fall asleep in their seats. We wanted to find out whether an insert that allows the infant's head to rest upright in sleep could improve safety by reducing periods of low oxygen. http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/parents-warned-not-let-babies-sleep-in-car-seats-5510875 <em>edited by evelyn2000 on 08/02/2014</em>

Despite what you see in the malls/parks ( when most of a babies are in the car seats instead of carry cot) it may seems that there is nothing wrong with that. Unless you have a car seat which is reeling flat :). If not for a longer periods it is better to use carry cot. Car seats are made for traveling in the car & safety.Small baby shouldn't spend more time that it has to be in it. I think it is something around 2 hours. The reason is a position in a car seat which making more pressure on the spine, and when the baby is older they start touching their feet much earlier that they will do without, what is affecting the general muscle tension.Also sometimes the head of baby is too close to chest which may cause berating problems and also is linked to re flux. Sorry for my English, hopping you will get a point.