London, November 21: A new study suggests that babies may face lasting psychological damage if they are pushed in buggies facing away from their parents.
Conducted by Dundee University researchers, the study has found that that babies pushed in the more popular forward-facing models were left "emotionally impoverished", and appeared to suffer more stress than babies facing their parent.
The researchers said that such infants were also found to be significantly less likely to talk, laugh and interact with their parents.
The study involved almost 3,000 pairs of parents and babies. In one experiment, 20 babies were pushed for a mile, half the journey being spent in an away-facing buggy and the rest in a toward-facing one.