PEDIATRICS Vol. 52 No. 3 September 1973, pp. 463-464
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Safety of Infants in Automobiles

Quentin H. McDonald 1

1 P.O. Box 29, Scarsdale, New York 10583

At the recent Academy Meeting in Boston, we had a most unusual experience. Although we have exhibited the Bobby-Mac Baby Chair at Academy Meetings during the past three years as a safe infant seat-car seat-high chair, we were surprised to have an Academy member state that he "always recommends that the very young baby be held in the mother's arms even in a car," and "did not approve of car restraints for infants".

In view of the available research on car seat safety for infants and children, it is difficult to believe that a physician counseling young mothers could maintain such an attitude.