Free Bumbo Repair Kit - Including Restraint Belt from Tomy
Bumbo is recalling nearly 4.5m Bumbo Baby Seats in the US and Canada due to over 80 reports of babies falling out of the seats and hurting themselves. 21 of these incidents resulted in the babies fracturing their skulls.
As part of the recall Bumbo will supply a free restraint strap that can be fitted to the chair. Whilst no official recall has been launched in the UK, Bumbo say they will supply the restraint to owners of the Bumbo Baby Seats that contact them.
When filling out the form you will need product dates and codes on the bumbo. There is a photograph on the linked page showing where to find them on your bumbo.
All Comments (19)
Jump to unread Post a CommentWe had a Bumbo but you don't go putting it on anything other than the floor.
Also you don't leave your little one unattended as if they are small enough to be using a Bumbo then they are small enough to not know what they are doing so if they push themselves out you should be there to stop it.
We used it as a helpful device to sit him up to feed him etc.
It's not a throw the kid in here for an hour device while I vacumn around the whole house or something.
Edited By: lumoruk on Aug 23, 2012 09:49
No, the restraint is for the bumbo to be used whilst it's on the floor, like it's supposed to be.
I e-mailed them about how to get one of these last week when there was an article about it. It arrived yesterday, easy to fit etc but once it's in it's in. Taking it out will leave you with holes/tears in the seat.
Edited By: Dehumanization on Aug 23, 2012 09:55
Otherwise sitting a child in a bumbo on the floor like they're supposed to be used is exactly as safe as just sitting the child on the floor normally.
They must be issuing these straps because they know some complete and total idiot will put their child in one on a kitchen counter anyway and will try and blame the company for it when they wriggle out and flop onto the kitchen floor.
In which case the company should just forward the complaint straight to social services.
edit: retract all i said - my wife just rang to say our child fell out of the trolly whilst she was pushing it... i immediately thought of my comments here and think i am geting some karma / s0ds law come back
Edited By: t3rm3y on Aug 23, 2012 14:12: more terrible news updates
Babies haven't changed so I am lost by much of the rubbish sold as equipment/gadegetry necessary for caring for them. Case in point-baby monitors! Have babies stopped crying loudly or have our houses got so big that we need an intercom to tell us they're bawling.
Moan over. Usual programming will now be resumed!:p
Babies haven't changed so I am lost by much of the rubbish sold as equipment/gadegetry necessary for caring for them. Case in point-baby monitors! Have babies stopped crying loudly or have our houses got so big that we need an intercom to tell us they're bawling.
Moan over. Usual programming will now be resumed!:p
We used it for brief periods when our quick adjust seat was getting was getting washed and our son could sit up but didn't quite have enough balance. Was the easiest way to feed him.
Baby monitors, well we've got an Angelcare one which I think I would have been too paranoid to sleep if we didn't have but when he's asleep in the cot it's in the back room, our front room is facing a main road, and we wouldn't hear him crying unless he was full on screaming.
Babies haven't changed so I am lost by much of the rubbish sold as equipment/gadegetry necessary for caring for them. Case in point-baby monitors! Have babies stopped crying loudly or have our houses got so big that we need an intercom to tell us they're bawling.
Moan over. Usual programming will now be resumed!:p
mostly because babies don't one day just wake up and magically sit up, this bumbo allows your child to learn to sit up straight, yeah agree that you could use free cushions from around the house to support baby when sitting up but most of the time baby will fall over! this allows baby to sit up supported for a period of time to allow feeding, story time or general playing. i know once my baby started to try and sit up all he wanted to do was sit.. so we bought him a bumbo allowing him to do this and not fall over as if we supported him with pillows all the time he would slump or fall!!
Edited By: cheeky kitten on Aug 26, 2012 22:12
He had quite chubby legs but so do alot of babies. A restraint belt will not stop a baby falling out a bumbo.
He had quite chubby legs but so do alot of babies. A restraint belt will not stop a baby falling out a bumbo.
thats what I was thinking when I read the op...these belts are useless really..it will just keep the bumbo stuck to its butt...they will still fall over so no different really.....its best just to use cushions cus at least they will fall onto something soft then