Few baby products carry a bigger gap between what pediatricians recommend and what parents actually buy than the sit-in baby walker. Canada banned the sale, import, and even the resale of baby walkers in 2004, making possession alone punishable by fines. The American Academy of Pediatrics has been calling for a nationwide ban in the United States since 2004 as well. Yet baby walkers remain one of the most popular baby items on the American market, sold at big-box stores, Amazon, and specialty baby retailers to parents who often have no idea that a product on the shelf carries a warning label from the country’s largest pediatric medical organization. Families in Boston, throughout Massachusetts, and across the surrounding New England states should understand both the medical reality of walker injuries and the legal options available when a child is harmed.
This overview walks through why baby walkers cause the kinds of injuries they
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