Benefits of a baby car mirror
As a parent of a young child, spending time with the child is one of the most precious. Because you rarely have this time. Our lives get busier every day: a demanding job, an educational advancement, a side hustle, fitness sessions, all with the goal of meeting the bills and living the good life.
And that’s why spending time with your child is invaluable to you. This doesn’t always have to be at home, and often involves traveling in your car, whether it’s to the clinic, school, church, shopping, or vacation.
As you well know, when taking your baby in the car you have to use a car seat that varies depending on the age, weight or height of your little one. For an infant (ages 0-2), you need a rear-facing car seat, a toddler (ages 2-4) needs a car seat forward-facing, while older children (ages 4-11 ) ride in a booster seat. An alternative is to purchase a convertible car seat that is adjustable to fit all ages.
However, no matter what type of car seat you use, you are required by law to put your child in the back seat of your car, as it is safer compared to the front seat.
This creates the challenge of monitoring your child while driving and the anxiety keeps you turning to check on it.
Needless to say, this is a serious distraction on the road and the solution is to fix a baby stroller’s rear view mirror.
You just need to strap the mirror to the back seat headrest, tilt it to look at your baby until you get a good reflection of your image in the front mirror.
If the back seat of your car doesn’t have a headrest, there are a number of baby mirrors for a car without a headrest, the best of which are attached to the windshield or sun visor.
To disprove superficial arguments against the use of rear view mirrors for babies, here are the benefits of these mirrors.
Invaluable benefits you get from installing a rear view mirror for babies
(i) Helps you avoid anxiety about your baby’s well-being
The question of whether your baby is hungry, tired, crying, bored, dirty, hurt, sick, etc. is bound to make you constantly anxious, leading you to turn and look behind you frequently while driving.
Accidents or incidents happen in tenths of a second and the time you turn to look back is enough for this. Worse yet, no matter how you find your child may momentarily interrupt your judgment.
With a baby rear view mirror reflecting in your front mirror, anxiety would be effectively replaced with reassuring glances in the front mirror, just like you look in rear view mirrors.
(ii) Mirror reflection can alert you in time to save your child
Just like with adults, there are so many dangerous situations your little one can get into when traveling in a car. These include nausea or any other illness, injury, suffocation, heat stroke, etc. Your baby may fall asleep in an awkward position, or a blanket may cover her face, preventing her from breathing.
The problem with babies and young children is that they can neither help themselves nor ask for help. If left unattended for too long, these problems can become unpleasant or even lead to death.
The mirror reflection of a baby stroller in the front mirror would alert you to take action early enough.
(iii) Mirror reflection entertains your baby
Babies love to watch movement and moving images in the mirror will keep your child glued to the screen. Your image in the mirror reassures him that you are still with him and therefore he is likely to cry less during the trip.
