Pediatric doctors in New Zealand report breathing risk to babies who sleep in car seats.

Infants should not be left to sleep alone in car seats, reports Forbes magazine. This week’s issue of the Business Medical Journal detailed a study of infants who had breathing problems that were later found to have the common thread of infants sleeping in car seats.

“All but one case occurred when the infants had been left in the car seats indoors, allowing them to fall asleep unrestrained in an upright position,” said a report by the group, led by Dr. Alistair J. Gunn, an associate professor of physiology and pediatrics at the University of Auckland.

All the infants survived, but the parents were given advice on better positioning to prevent future problems, and warnings about not leaving the babies in the car seats for excessive periods of time.

It’s a “fairly important paper,” said Dr. Christopher Greeley, medical director of the newborn nursery at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nashville, because it demonstrates the potential dangers of car seats, which are regarded as essential for protecting children if accidents occur

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