Bumbo Recall

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/25/earlyshow/contributors/susankoeppen/main3406743.shtml?source=mostpop_story

I have to confess I have never been a fan of the fad which is the Bumbo Babysitter Seat. So this recall did not affect me nor upset me. Actually I was a little bit pleased. We purchased a bumbo back around Xmas 2005. Our little guy was around 3 months at the time. We kept the thing for a mere 48hours. I honestly felt like I had my child placed on a dunce stool and all he was missing was the cone on his little head. He looked bored stiff. So what if he was sitting? That is all he was doing. We are pretty much "everything in it's own time" type parents... so sitting did not impress us any. Obviously one has to admit the advantages of the bumbo to infants with disabilities or disorders where assisted sitting is an asset. But for the average healthy child the same quantity of money would be so much better spent on a quality bouncy chair or swing type apparatus where the infant is stimulated to some degree.

We dubbed the seat the dumbo and promptly returned it. With the increase of bumbo sales came the flood of pictures of babies in bumbos in every location imaginable... they seemed to plague every parenting site we visited. It was only a matter of time before the issue of safety was brought to light. Soo now that children have been injured... some seriously with injuries like skill fractures..... Bumbo is changing their instructions. Yep that's the solution new warning labels or some such thing. In all seriousness... "YOU CHANGE THE DUMBO INSTRUCTIONS BUT NOT THE DUMBO PARENTS".