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Child in an improperly installed car seat (Image: Peter Kieper)
Families with heat-induced cabin fever may take to the roads this weekend. Before you do, please read this (excerpted here):
…it may surprise you that car seats can actually be responsible for many injuries in children. Young children, especially infants, have weak spines and necks, so even a sharp stop can cause injury if a car seat is installed incorrectly. [Read more...]
(8/09) One gray morning last week my daughter and I were in a terrible car accident. My beautiful four year old and I careened off the road at between 60 and 70 miles an hour. We launched through a guardrail and began to roll. I don’t know how many times.Then, in a quiet field in rural Texas, motion stopped.
Most of this I know because it has been told to me. I have been told that my car and another collided along the highway. We were traveling the speed limit, but that was fast. I lost control of my SUV.
I lost control.
My baby was in the car. [Read more...]
A great read from NPR. Here’s an excerpt:
A full-term pregnancy lasts 40 weeks, but elective deliveries are often planned for two or three weeks earlier. And even though 37 weeks is also still considered full term, studies show that babies born even a few weeks too early are at greater risk for health problems than those who are born later. That has some doctors campaigning to curb the trend of scheduled labor and delivery. [Read more...]
teens and young adults in suburban Dallas have been indicted in a sweeping heroin bust after three young people died of heroin overdoses last year. These are not the kids you would imagine having a heroin problem. They are from a middle to upper middle class bastion of suburbia. It’s a land of six bedroom homes and soccer camps and vacation bible schools. Yet these kids are accused of trading things like guns and sex for drugs. These kids are junkies. [Read more...]
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