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I just saw this. It looks like its because babies still fell out and cracked their skull even if they were in the seat on the floor. This is why we had to get rid of ours. By the time my LO was old enough to sit up in the bumbo, she was big enough to push herself backwards out of the bumbo. So we always had to be sitting right there with her on the floor. It kinda defeated the purpose. If we were sitting right there with her, we would just hold her.

I knew this would happen. We never really used the bumbo, but my sister still uses it for my niece who's 19 months. no bueno.

LO used the Bumbo every day from when she was 4 months and we never had issues.

@mediagirl: they are offeirng a repair kit to add a lap belt to it. It can be ordered at http://www.recall.bumbousa.com/

Truthfully, you dont NEED a bumbo, or any chair for that matter. We had one for liv and used it like twice. It always made her puke.

Also FWIW my best friends mom is an infant developmental therapist and told me to not use it. It doesnt force them to use stabilizing core muscles to learn to sit so it could potentially slow their ability to sit on their own. Clearly I kept ours, it just wasnt a fit for us

I didn't think I'd ever want to buy an infant chair but my LO absolutely loves the sitting position! I was thinking about buying the Bebepod by Prince Lionheart, it comes with a safety belt and the thigh holes are supposed to be larger.
http://www.amazon.com/Prince-Lionheart-Bebepod-Flex-Green/dp/B004NRNSXM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345040569&sr=8-1&keywords=bebepod

But if the Bumbo is now half price, I'd get that instead (I sound horrible, I know).

@mediagirl: we have the bebe pod. We used it a little on the floor but we used it a ton strapped to a chair at the kitchen table so LO can hang out with us during meals. Now that she is on solids, we feed her in the bebe pod and it has inspired us to just get abooster seat instead of a full highchair. Get the one with the tray if you do optfor it.

My LO couldn't fall out of it.... her legs were too chubby. She couldn't get out if we pulled her.

@artbee: I don't think the issue is falling out of it, our problem was that LO would arch her back and push out of a sitting position and flop over backwards onto the back of her head.

I think this recall is pretty much identical to the one before. It's from parents leaving their kids on raised surfaces unattended.

You can't fix stupid.

@zippylef: The article says that some of the babies fell from the seats while they were being used on the floor--but yes, perhaps their parents weren't watching at the time.

LO's thighs are too chunky for the Bumbo anyway. We've tried to use it twice and it's hard to get her in and out of it and she doesn't like it so we were just going to sell it. We'll probably just trash it now.

ETA: My husband says they should call it the "Bumpo."

@zippylef: Exactly, can't fix stupid. Basically, don't leave your LO alone! Gosh!

We used our hand-me down bumbo with the optional as a highchair for many months and never had a problem. However, like many on here said we never left DD unattended in it.

@photojane: Good point--I know of plenty of babies who have fallen from standing (while learning to walk), hit their heads, and didn't even cry no less crack their skulls....

@enjollah: I know! I just let the Bumbo fall to the floor eventually or I step on it to release it.