Protect your baby’s hips by making sure you are positioning them correctly

It’s Baby Hip Health Week 2012 from 10-17 March.

National charity STEPS, is calling for parents and professionals to learn how to position their babies to prevent hip dysplasia.

The charity is working with the International Hip Dysplasia Institute (IHDI) to release two parent friendly leaflets offering advice and diagrams showing the correct and incorrect positioning for car seats and baby harnesses and slings and show correct swaddling methods.

STEPS Director and member of the IHDI Advisory Board, Sue Banton said, “We don’t want to scare parents, but by putting their babies in inappropriate car seats or baby slings or by swaddling their babies in the wrong way there is a real risk of their child developing hip dysplasia”.

For more information and guidelines please visit: http://www.steps-charity.org.uk/Get-Involved/baby-hip-health-awareness.html