-- A --
Adjusting to a New Baby
Adoption
American Sign Language
Auditory Oral/Auditory Verbal
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
-- B --
Babbling
Bottle Feeding
Brain Development
Breast Feeding
Burns, Prevention of
-- C --
Calming Your Baby
Car Seat Safety
Child and Teen Checkups (C & TC)
Child Care
Child Find (Concerns About Your Baby)
Choking/suffocation
Cochlear implants
Colic
Comforting Your Baby
Community Resources
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Crib Safety
Crying
Cued Speech
-- D --
Development of Your Baby
Discipline and Babies
Drowning
-- E --
Ear infections and early learning
Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE)
Early Childhood Special Education
Early Head Start
Expectations for hearing aid usage
-- F --
Fall prevention
Family Stress
Fathering
Follow Along Program
Fussiness
-- G --
Grandparenting
Grief (see Pregnancy and Newborn Loss)
-- H --
Hearing (see Newborn Hearing Screening)
Hearing aids
Hearing loss and early brain development
Hearing loss: your child and school
-- I --
Imagination
Immunizations
Infant Self-Regulation
Interagency Early Intervention Committees (IEICs)
-- L --
Language Development
Lead Poisoning
Learning
Learning loss: parent support for learning language
-- M --
Maternal Depression
Mild hearing loss
Military Families
Minnesota Children with Special Health Needs (MCSHN)
Multiple Intelligences
-- N --
Never leave a child alone in a vehicle
Newborn Hearing Screening
Newborn Screening
Newsletters
Noise and Children's Hearing
Nurturing Your Baby
Nutrition
-- O --
Oral Health
Overview of communication choices
-- P --
Parent and Child Relationships
Parenting Education Classes
Permanent hearing loss
Play
Poisoning, Preventing
Preemies and parenting issues
Preemies and their development
Preemies and their health
Pregnancy and Newborn Loss, Understanding Your Grief
Preterm Babies (Premies)
-- R --
Radon
Reading Aloud (Reading to Your Baby)
Reading Your Baby’s Clues
Responsive Parenting
Returning to Work/School
Routines/Schedules for Babies
-- S --
Second Hand Smoke
Selecting Toys
Shaken Baby Syndrome
Sleep
Social Emotional Development of the Older Infant
Social Emotional Development of the Young Infant
Stranger Awareness/Anxiety
Stress and Your Baby
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
-- T --
Talking to Your Baby
Teething
Television and Babies
Temperament
Toy Safety
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Tummy Time
-- U --
Unilateral hearing loss
-- W --
Webinars for Parents (library)
Adjusting to a New Baby
Adoption
American Sign Language
Auditory Oral/Auditory Verbal
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
-- B --
Babbling
Bottle Feeding
Brain Development
Breast Feeding
Burns, Prevention of
-- C --
Calming Your Baby
Car Seat Safety
Child and Teen Checkups (C & TC)
Child Care
Child Find (Concerns About Your Baby)
Choking/suffocation
Cochlear implants
Colic
Comforting Your Baby
Community Resources
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Crib Safety
Crying
Cued Speech
-- D --
Development of Your Baby
Discipline and Babies
Drowning
-- E --
Ear infections and early learning
Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE)
Early Childhood Special Education
Early Head Start
Expectations for hearing aid usage
-- F --
Fall prevention
Family Stress
Fathering
Follow Along Program
Fussiness
-- G --
Grandparenting
Grief (see Pregnancy and Newborn Loss)
-- H --
Hearing (see Newborn Hearing Screening)
Hearing aids
Hearing loss and early brain development
Hearing loss: your child and school
-- I --
Imagination
Immunizations
Infant Self-Regulation
Interagency Early Intervention Committees (IEICs)
-- L --
Language Development
Lead Poisoning
Learning
Learning loss: parent support for learning language
-- M --
Maternal Depression
Mild hearing loss
Military Families
Minnesota Children with Special Health Needs (MCSHN)
Multiple Intelligences
-- N --
Never leave a child alone in a vehicle
Newborn Hearing Screening
Newborn Screening
Newsletters
Noise and Children's Hearing
Nurturing Your Baby
Nutrition
-- O --
Oral Health
Overview of communication choices
-- P --
Parent and Child Relationships
Parenting Education Classes
Permanent hearing loss
Play
Poisoning, Preventing
Preemies and parenting issues
Preemies and their development
Preemies and their health
Pregnancy and Newborn Loss, Understanding Your Grief
Preterm Babies (Premies)
-- R --
Radon
Reading Aloud (Reading to Your Baby)
Reading Your Baby’s Clues
Responsive Parenting
Returning to Work/School
Routines/Schedules for Babies
-- S --
Second Hand Smoke
Selecting Toys
Shaken Baby Syndrome
Sleep
Social Emotional Development of the Older Infant
Social Emotional Development of the Young Infant
Stranger Awareness/Anxiety
Stress and Your Baby
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
-- T --
Talking to Your Baby
Teething
Television and Babies
Temperament
Toy Safety
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Tummy Time
-- U --
Unilateral hearing loss
-- W --
Webinars for Parents (library)
Car Seat Safety
By Eileen Nelson, MA
Early Childhood Specialist
Minnesota Department of Education
Car safety is an important part of the overall responsibility of keeping your baby safe. Never allow your baby to ride in the car in someone's arms. In a sudden stop or accident she could be severely injured. Babies must be in car safety seats that are appropriate for an individual baby's size, weight and stage of physical development. Infants risk serious injury or harm if the car seat is too large or is not properly installed.
Choosing the Proper Seat
To protect your baby, you need a car safety seat that is designed to protect your baby at your baby's stage of physical development and weight. There are several resources that will help you choose the type of seat your baby needs including general information on choosing a car seat, specific information about the best car seat for your vehicle and ratings information about child safety seat ease of use.
Installing the Car Safety Seat Correctly
There are several styles of car seats and car models differ in the way a car seat is installed. Be sure to install the car seat correctly. Watch a video about installing the car seat correctly.
You must adjust your child's car seat as your baby grows. Pay attention to your child's weight and development and adjust the car safety seats as needed. Remember to always buckle your baby into the car seat before you drive away
