Baby Injuries Rise in Common Infant Products

A new study finds a growing number of young children are being injured while using infant products like carriers, strollers and cribs. Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, looked at the number of kids across the country under age 3 who had to go to an emergency room after such an injury. “There’s an average of 128 a day, or about one every eight minutes,” says Tracy Meahn of the Center for Injury Research and Policy. “And the concerning thing is that these numbers are going up.”