Child Passenger Safety for Prepared Childbirth Class

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• WELCOME!
• Child Passenger Safety for Prepared Childbirth
  Class

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CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY FOR INFANTS

• WELCOME!
• Picking a Seat
• Installing a seat
• BASICS FOR SAFETY
• LATCH
• After market products
• More information

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WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT ABOUTCHILD PASSENGER SAFETY?

• Motor Vehicle Crashes
• Leading Cause Of Death Of Children
• In Connecticut, 95 of all child safety seats are
  improperly installed.
• Car crashes cause more deaths each year than
  diseases, drugs, and kidnappings COMBINED!

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"The Frings' twins were in child safety seats in
the back of her 1997 Chrysler Sebring.  'They
were secured exactly as they should have been,'
Jefferson County Sheriff Davenport said. 
'Fortunately for them, they were secured
properly.'" 

• The Frings' car after the accident

Excerpt from The Knoxville News-Sentinel Friday,
June 16, 2000, newspaper article 
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What is the BEST Child Safety Seat?!?

• Fits the CHILD properly
• Fits the CAR properly
• Will be used correctly EVERY TIME

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PREMATURE LOW BIRTH-WEIGHT INFANTS

• special considerations are necessary to ensure
  their safe transportation
• Weight
• Harness straps
• Crotch strap
• Respiratory obstruction

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BASICS FOR INFANTS
Think where babys face would go in a crash or
sudden stop!
WARNING!
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NEVER NEVER NEVER

• PUT A CHILD In the front seat
• In front if airbag

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BASICS FOR INFANTS

• Children should be REAR-FACING
• as long as possible, but
• AT-LEAST
• ONE YEAR
• AND
• 20 Pounds

BABY, BACKWARDS, BELOW
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INSTALLATION TIPS

• BELT PATH Put weight into seat

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RETRACTING SYSTEMS

• Automatic Locking (ALR)
• Emergency Locking (ELR)
• Combination (Switchable)

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LATCHPLATES

• Locking Latch Plate Fixed (sewn on) Latch
  Plate
• Sliding Latch Plate Switchable

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Locking clip

• Also called pre-crash positioned
• Regular
• Belt Shortening (Heavy Duty)
• Within 1 inch of buckle

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LATCH Lower Anchors Tethers for children
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Use a Tether strap????

• Not approved for Most rear-facing Infant Seats
• Adds stability
• Reduce head excursion
• May solve problem with forward-mounted belt
  systems in some cases

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45 degree angle when installed
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BASICS FOR INFANTS

• The seat should fit tightly in the car
• Seat should not move more than 1 INCH at belt
  path when installed

BUT HOW DO I GET THE CAR SEAT TO FIT TIGHTLY IN
MY CAR??????
READ READ READ
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HARNESS SHOULD BE TIGHT

• One Finger WONDERFUL
• Two Fingers TOO MANY
• DO NOT use extra padding/blankets behind/under
  child or under harnesses

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Retainer clip should be at armpit level

• Send in the registration card for recall
  information.
• Replace any car seat/seat belt that has been
  involved in a crash
• DO NOT use a used seat without knowing its
  history

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BASICS FOR INFANTS

• If using an infant carrier
• when driving the handle canopy should be DOWN

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NEVER NEVER NEVER

• hold child while bundle child UNDER
• Car moving to console, harness (instead, put
• breastfeed etc blanket on top)

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NEVER NEVER NEVER!

• Never Keep harness loose or above shoulders
• OR Clip below armpit level

Harness straps error
Retainer clip error
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AFTER MARKET PRODUCTS
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QUESTIONS?

• HANDOUTS
• Info sheets
• Inspection stations
• Web resources
• Premature low birth weight review sheet
• Video in hospital when deliver