Mum issues warning over why you should never put headbands on your baby no matter how ‘cute’ you think they look
A MUM has issued a warning over putting headbands with bows on your baby.
Katie, who is mum to baby Aria, uploaded a video sharing how she was put off by how “dangerous” they can be.
In a clip which has racked up nearly 7,000 likes, she said: “Two reasons why I stopped putting headbands on my baby.
“They are unsafe without supervision.”
Katie shared a story of how they were driving back from somewhere in the car and her little girl’s headband moved from the top of her head to “covering her eyes.”
The mum added on her @katieandariam page: “Luckily I caught this straight away because I have a mirror but I was the only person in the car so can you imagine the panic that I went through.
“As your little one shifts and moves about, especially when they are sleeping, the elastic can become a real danger to them.
“It can cause suffocation and it can cause strangulation.
“If that headband had creeped down a little bit more, it could have blocked her breathing.”
The second thing Katie warned about was the tightness of headbands.
She explained: “If you think about it as adults, when we wear headbands, they can give us a bit of a headache after some time if they are too tight.
“They are uncomfortable and babies can’t tell us this.
“It’s not something you are going to want to put on their head when it is growing.”
The mum added that it is “personal choice” if you use headbands but she just wanted to “spread awareness” about potential hazards of doing so when babies are sleeping.
Many mums were quick to take to the comments in response to Katie’s video.
One said: “Yeah headbands are cute but I only put them on my daughter to take pics then take them straight off.”
Another added: “I learnt recently that as their skulls aren’t fully formed together that wearing headbands can cause damage.”