WOULD SOMEONE OUT THERE PLEASE INVENT A WARNING BUZZER

[leftyladyfrommo]

to put in cars to remind parents the baby is still in the back seat.! Just a buzzer that goes off when the door opens to remind parents to check the back seat and see if the baby is still there.

Please!

It would save so many babies lives.

[ThomCat]

1. A simple proximity alarm would work.

You attach one end to you, the other to the baby. If you get to far away it goes off.

:shrug: Why hasn't anyone built and marketted something like this?

[Sequoia]

4. I thought the same exact thing!

[Hugin]

8. See post #6...

[JuniperLea]

2. People are so stupid! So many leave babies in the car intentionally!

Perhaps that alarm should prevent the doors from being locked until the baby car seat is empty... I'm sure those creepy freaks wouldn't want their car stolen.

:grr:

[lonestarnot]

18. Now wait! I know of one case in which this was a total accident.

The baby was fine, but sure as hell caused a ton of problems for the family, and such a freak out emotion trip for all involved that I thought the unit would collapse.

[JuniperLea]

21. Oh, I'm quite sure there are accidental cases... no doubt

But there are many that are not accidental.

[lonestarnot]

22. With this I also agree, and those I don't know what should

be done. If we lock them up and throw away the keys, the kids are left for the state and it's abuse. What to do is the question.

[RobertSeattle]

3. Or Maybe some kind of proximity buzzer

When you are X feet away from your baby an alarm will go off.

This is such a strange unintended consequence of requiring children to be in the back seat of vehicles.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. That is exactly what it is - babies fall asleep in the back seat

and are quiet that people simply forget all about them. And they can't see them. These cases are just so heartbreaking and so unnecessary.

Just a buzzer to remind them to look - that is all it would take.

A little voice things that says "check on the baby"

Anything like that would work.

[JuniperLea]

12. I could never understand that

When my kids were babies, I had an automatic maternal NEED to know what was up with them at all times. I could no sooner forget my baby than to leave my own head laying around.

[hobbit709]

5. It's impossible to make things foolproof

Because fools are so damn ingenious.-Old engineering adage.

[Hugin]

7. If you make something foolproof...

only a fool will use it. -- Another old adage.

:thumbsup:

[Hugin]

6. Actually, there *is* one... I saw it at the checkout in Walgreen's.

It's more of a proximity sensor designed for when toddlers wander too
far away. But, it could be used as you describe as well.

[kurth]

10. A simple carbon dioxide detector might work

to alert people of children and pets left behind in locked cars with closed windows.

[catabryna]

11. One cheap idea until someone comes up with something better

They have small little circular mirrors that you can affix to one side of your rearview mirror that can be adjusted so that you can see your child without having to turn your head. I think I bought the thing about four years ago in the "baby safety" section. What precipitated my action? Well, my son is always on my mind, but I know that I made it halfway to work one time before I realized that I hadn't dropped my kid off. I felt like a horrible mother! Harried, but horrible nonetheless... :scared:

[deaniac21]

13. I suspect that the device wouldn't work on it's intended customer.

If they can't remember that they have a baby with them I would suggest that they aren't competent mothers.

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. I don't agree with that.

Children used to be fastened right in the front seat next to you - there was no way they could be overlooked.

But now people are getting ready to go to work and are thinking about the day ahead and who know s what else. The baby is in the back, asleep and out of site. The simply forget to even look.

If a car can have a buzzer to tell you your lights are on it should be easy to have a buzzer to remind you the baby is in the car seat in the back.

[deaniac21]

15. I would argue that if you go to work and forget a child is in

the car the justice system will be happy to discuss your competence.

[catabryna]

16. Well, I guess that would mean that...

I'm a semi-competent parent since I realized my error. He's always been a very quiet traveler because he loves looking at everything whiz by. In the meantime, I have a five year old boy who has never broken a bone, required a stitch, burned himself on the stove, or fallen in a bathtub. So, I must not be doing too poorly.

In fact, I'm apparently doing better than my own mother because all of these things happened to my brother before he turned five. Then there's my ex-husband whose mother accidently left him at a park when he was six.

I find the suggestion of incompetence to be a little inflamatory and I would put forward the idea that things such as these have happened to many fantastic parents; it's just that most of them wouldn't want to admit to such things because it might be inferred that they are "incompetent".

[Jeffersons Ghost]

17. pretty kool idea but what if it screamed like an Iraqi baby in a raid?

I bet those Iraq kids scream like Hell when they're shot. Did you hear about the new rape/murder, investigation on members of the US 101st Airborne? They say troops raped the women, then shot the whole family.

[Alcibiades]

19. I have a baby

He's 17 months old, and I love him dearly. I have absolutely no idea how people can forget there's a baby in the back seat. I mean, did the baby strap itself in? I'm with my child 24 hours a day. It's not like misplacing your wallet.

This is just bizarre. Just as there's no warning label on the sulphuric acid telling you not to pour it on your genitals, there shouldn't be a baby buzzer on cars.

How about beds? I'm pretty diligent, but my baby has fallen off the bed. If they land the wrong way, they can die. Hundreds do, every year. Perhaps something like trapeze netting?

[catabryna]

23. Please take this in the spirit in which it is meant...

My son was 18 months old at adoption. Just before his 2nd birthday, his daddy was diagnosed with cancer. His mom had to go back to work full time to keep the income, but we were fortunate in that dad had good health insurance. Mom (that would be me, of course) had a job that was very stressful because it was just her boss and herself, though he made accomodations for the family. Jack will always be a part of our family but my job held, in my hands, the lives of those we served. Many of these folks were in better shape than our family was, but far more were worse off than we were.

My husband also worked during chemo, radiation, no remission, salvage therapy, a stem cell transplant, remission, relapse and, finally, no matching donor bone marrow in the whole world. He went to work the day he was diagnosed with a case of pneumonia which resulted in septic shock and ultimately his death after 21 days in the ICU.

We jumbled all of this with a 2-4 year old special needs child and dealt with early interventions with our little boy, special preschool programs for children with disabilities, a flurry of doctors' appointments and five different surgeries. During this time, I held down a full time job which kept me away from my home for nearly 12 hours a day during the week. And, all of this at a time when my husband and child both needed me the most.

I only implore people to realize that, while my situation might be somewhat unique, we are all human and prone to cause misfortune. Please don't make the inane assumption that it couldn't happen to you because it can happen to anyone.

[seabeyond]

24. i think this mom can assume it wont happen to her. as i could it wouldnt

happen to me and didnt. never forgot a child. but then like her, i was with them 24/7.... hell still am. at night sleeping i would wake up with a jolt cause i DIDNT have them with me, i was so use to having them with me.

of course this mom is not going to forget. and i wouldnt forget. your situation created the atmosphere that could allow. giving a baby to a parent that isnt used to taking to daycare, and is off to work is a situation that could allow to forget. out of the ordinary could allow to forget.

but i totally understand this poster saying there is not a chance in hell. i doubt there is.

that is not to say i can not understand absolutely how this shit happens and all a parent wants in the world is a do over, another chance, a let it not be. and i feel total compassion and love and sympathy and pain and sadness for those parents

shit happens. and it is often not a fun ride

[RB TexLa]

20. In the past here they have put up billboards saying to put your purse or

laptop in the backseat with the baby so you won't forget.