Bumbo seats recalled



Categories: Recalls
Jennifer Gish

6 Responses

  1. Meg says:

    Because people are idiots for placing their kid UP on something when the seat is for FLOOR use this company has to go through an expensive recall. Words just can’t describe how annoyed I am by this.

  2. meghan says:

    I agree that the recall is a bit dumb. It is sort of like the labels on coffee “WARNING HOT” duhhhh lets use some common sense! We used it with my son and he was safe in the seat. But then again he was so little we never left him unattended in it, nor did we place it on a surface besides the floor!

  3. Kristin says:

    These are the same idiots that put the infant car seat on top of a table with their baby in it. You can’t protect or warn against stupid.

  4. Sunshine says:

    I agree with the fact that we should expect product recalls to replace users’ common sense. However, I do think those Bumbos are a little dangerous. We used one for a short time, and my daughter (maybe 4-5 months old – not quite sitting completely independently) would put her feet on the ground and arch her back, so I was worried that she would fall backwards on her head. We would only use it on carpet, and only when I was watching closely. It was okay for those occasions when I had to place her somewhere for a very short time (like if I had to go to the bathroom) and could put her right in front of me where I could grab her if I had to, but we ultimately discarded the Bumbo pretty fast because it just didn’t seem safe.

    The thing is, though, that it seems to me that recalls should be if there’s a design or manufacturing defect discovered that renders a product unsafe after it has already been on the market. To recall an item because it is unsafe (which is a design defect) but it is as it appears and there is no new information that makes it suddenly unsafe seems to defeat the purpose of the recall. There is nothing about this product that would make the consumer think that it is any safer than it actually is. There are no hidden parts, no mechanics that can fail, nothing that has been discovered to be a choking hazard, etc. Therefore, the issue is that parents aren’t using their common sense when using the product, which is not the fault of the manufacturer or the product.

    If you were standing at the top of a steep hill with your child’s jogging stroller, would you let go and decide to run alongside the stroller while it flies down the hill? Probably not. But if a bunch of parents did, and their kids got injured from stroller collisions, would jogging strollers be recalled for the likelihood of collision injuries? I think it’s completely analogous. You have to supervise your kids. That’s it.

  5. Sunshine says:

    Uh – first line of above… should not expect recalls to replace common sense. Argh.

  6. Leslie says:

    I would be curious to see how many Bumbo owners actually follow the recall. The recall is for you to order a strap to put in the Bumbo similar to the straps in infant seats. I have a Bumbo that has been outgrown, so it’s going in storage if #2 ever happens. I will never get a strap for that. I don’t even use the straps for the infant seats.. yes I’m a bad parent.

    We have friends whose child fell off a Bumbo and had a skull fracture. He was in the Bumbo when he was over 6 months old- so mobile, meaning he could get out of the Bumbo rather easily- and was placed on a bench seat near their front door. He tipped the Bumbo and went falling. Kid is fine, but it was not the Bumbo’s fault- it was the stupid parent’s fault. Even if the Bumbo has straps, he still would have fallen and crushed his head!

    Because of stupid parents like this we have to get millions of warning labels on everything we buy. As for the jogging stroller comments from Sunshine- I had to cut off 6 tags off my BOB stroller and most of them were along the lines of “keep your kid strapped in,” “keep child attended at all time.” Seriously? No one reads the warnings, certainly not the parent who doesn’t strap their kid into a stroller.

    What will be next? My daughter loves her Leapfrog play table and sometimes falls over next to it, because she can stand, but cannot walk yet. A strap to keep the baby from falling when they stand next to a play table? How about the kid that tries to climb on the play table and falls off? A warning label for that?