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Demand surges at diaper distributions as SNAP recipients face benefit reductions
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DENVER — The Trump administration’s decision to partially fund November’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits has left families across Colorado bracing their budgets for tough choices.

The federal government will allocate $4.6 billion from an emergency fund to keep SNAP running — a figure that’s only about half the program’s typical monthly cost. Officials have yet to announce when those funds will be available, adding to the uncertainty for families who rely on the program for food and essentials.

That uncertainty is impacting more than just grocery lists. At a recent diaper distribution event hosted by local nonprofit WeeCycle, hundreds of parents lined up seeking help with basic needs like diapers, wipes, and formula.

Nonprofits distributing food and pet supplies typically join WeeCycle at each event. SNAP benefits do not include non-food items like diapers and wipes.

“Sometimes I don’t know if my kids are going to eat the next day,” said Leianna Rojas, a single mother of four who was recently laid off and now works two part-time jobs at $19 an hour.

Each month, Rojas typically receives about $400 in SNAP benefits.

“It’s only $400 a month, and that doesn’t cover the whole month of my four kids I have,” she said. “I still have to put some out of my pocket.”

Even with two jobs and food assistance, Rojas’ paychecks are stretched to feed herself and her children.

Colin Riley, Denver7

Leianna Rojas relies on SNAP to help feed her four children. After a recent layoff, Rojas needed to take two, part-time jobs to quickly make ends meet. She says the $400 SNAP benefit she received, each month, still didn’t cover her entire grocery bill.

“It’s stressful. It’s overwhelming,” Rojas told Denver7.

She described relying on rice, beans, and potatoes — meals her mother used to make to stretch a budget. After paying rent, Rojas sometimes has just $20 left.

“So, it was to provide a home for my kids, or to be out and homeless,” she said.

At this WeeCycle distribution, the need was historic for all the wrong reasons.

“The need has surged,” said Lindsey Zaback, the nonprofit’s development director. “This is the first time we’ve ever seen all 500 pre-registration slots filled for this market.”

Zaback said demand has been larger than events held during the pandemic.

“This feels worse. It feels like an even more unprecedented time,” Zaback said. “And it’s because we don’t have the government agencies stepping up in terms of grant funding and ARPA funding and things like that to help sustain nonprofits.”

WeeCycle provides diapers, wipes, and formula to families in need — a lifeline as SNAP funding remains uncertain.

“When SNAP benefits are cut or reduced, that’s a huge portion of a family’s income every month,” Zaback said. “They have to find other ways to find funds for things like diapers.”

Colin Riley, Denver7

Multiple nonprofits make up each distribution event. They look to connect families with food, diapers, baby formula, hygiene products, and pet supplies.

At a recent distribution event, WeeCycle said it served 1,000 children in two hours — a 65% increase compared to the previous year.

“It helps fill in those gaps so you’re not struggling,” said Inna Mitchell, another visitor at the event. “[If] you’re someone who doesn’t get benefits, but you’re someone who needs help.”

Despite the mounting pressure on families and nonprofits, Zaback sees community support as the only viable short-term answer.

“I wish there was a better solution, that there were other entities — including the government — that were able to step up to help sustain nonprofits right now, but it’s not happening,” she said. “We’re just reliant on community members to help get us through these times… to ensure that we can meet the community needs.”

For Rojas, the message to other struggling parents is simple.

“Don’t be scared,” she said. “There’s people out there that want to help, and they’re here with warm hearts and loving to help out. Just don’t be scared. We’re all in the same boat at the end of the day.”

WeeCycle is urgently asking for donations of funds, diapers, wipes and formula to help meet the growing need. You can learn more about how to donate through this link.

If you need assistance, WeeCycle has the following upcoming distribution events:
- Wednesday, Nov. 5 — 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (9200 W. 10th Ave., Lakewood, 80215)
- Tuesday, Nov. 11 — 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at La Alma Recreation Center (1325 W. 11th Ave., Denver, 80204) *
- Friday, Nov. 14 — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Lalo Delgado (3201 W. Arizona Ave., Denver, 80219) *
- Monday, Nov. 17 — noon to 1 p.m. at Solid Rock CommUnity Food Pantry (3217 S. Academy Blvd., Colorado Springs, 80916)
- Tuesday, Nov. 18 — 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Barnum Recreation Center (360 Hooker St., Denver, 80219) *
- Wednesday, Nov. 19 — 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Broomfield Commons Sports Complex (13200 Sheridan Blvd., Broomfield, 80020)
- Friday, Nov. 21 — 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Parking Lot H (6000 Victory Way, Commerce City, 80022 )
- Saturday, Nov. 22 — 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at North Middle School (12095 E. Montview Blvd., Aurora 80010) *
- Tuesday, Nov. 25 — 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 72nd Ave RTD Station (3838 E. 72nd Ave., Commerce City, 80022) *
*These markets require a reservation for pickup times. Reservations open 24 hours prior to the market and can be made online.

Coloradans in need of food assistance can check out the following resources:

The governor’s office suggested Coloradans call 211 or (866) 760-5489 or visit the 211 Colorado website. There is also a list of resources through the Feeding Colorado website, or by email: info@feedingcolorado.org.

Those looking for the most up-to-date information should click here.
- Denver7 Gives has created a campaign to help Coloradans struggling with food insecurity. Click on the form below and select “Help Fight Food Insecurity“ to donate.
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November 4, 2025
L.A. child dies from complication of measles infection contracted in infancy

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A school-aged child in Los Angeles County has died from a rare complication of measles after contracting the disease in infancy, the county public health department announced Thursday.

The child — who was not old enough to be vaccinated at the time of infection — died from subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a fatal progressive brain disorder that strikes roughly one in 10,000 people infected with measles in the U.S. Doctors believe the risk is as high as one in every 600 children who contract measles as a baby.

The disorder typically develops two to 10 years after initial infection, even when — as in this child’s case — the patient recovers fully from measles. The disease begins with seizures, cognitive decline and involuntary muscle spasms, and progresses to dementia, coma and eventually death.

“Most pediatricians in the U.S. have never seen a child with SSPE because we’ve been vaccinating kids against measles for decades,” said Dr. Adam Ratner, a New York-based pediatric infectious-disease specialist and author of the book, “Booster Shots: The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children’s Health.”

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health could not release further details on the child’s age, gender or location due to patient privacy laws, a spokesperson said.

The department could only confirm that the child acquired measles before becoming eligible for an MMR vaccination.

“This case is a painful reminder of how dangerous measles can be, especially for our most vulnerable community members,” county health officer Dr. Muntu Davis said in a statement. “Infants too young to be vaccinated rely on all of us to help protect them through community immunity.”

Children typically receive their first MMR dose when they are 12 to 15 months old and a second dose between the ages of 4 and 6 years.

An early first dose from the age of 6 to 11 months is recommended for babies traveling internationally or through an international hub. Infants under the age of 6 months are too young to receive the MMR shot, according to guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Very young babies rely on antibodies acquired during gestation and herd immunity to protect them from measles, which killed roughly 400 children every year in the U.S. before the combined MMR vaccine’s introduction in 1971.

Measles was “eliminated” in the U.S. in 2000, meaning the disease was rare enough and immunity widespread enough to prevent local transmission if an errant case popped up.

For 25 years, parents in the U.S. have been able to trust that herd immunity will keep infants safe from measles until they are old enough to be vaccinated.

This recent death may be a signal that social contract is beginning to break.

Childhood immunization rates have been slowly but steadily falling nationwide, from 95% in the years before the COVID pandemic to below 93% in the 2023-24 school year.

In California, one of five U.S. states that banned all non-medical vaccine exemptions, the vaccination rate that year was 96.2%. California is also one of only 10 states with a kindergarten measles vaccination rate exceeding the 95% threshold experts say is necessary to achieve herd immunity.

But if current vaccination rates hold steady over the coming decades, measles will once again be endemic in the U.S. within 25 years, two Stanford University researchers found in a study published earlier this year.

“Right now we should really be trying to up vaccination rates,” Mathew Kiang, an assistant professor of epidemiology and population health, told the Times in April. “If we just kept them the way they are, bad things are going to happen within about two decades.”

Times staff writer Jenny Gold contributed to this report.

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September 11, 2025
Surprise! Baby girl born at Burning Man to mother who says she wasn’t expecting

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After decades of debauchery and an untold number of conceptions, revelers at Burning Man celebrated a rare birth at Black Rock City on Wednesday morning, after a festivalgoer unexpectedly went into labor on the Playa.

Some longtime Burners have dubbed the infant “Citizen Zero.”

“Baby girl arrived weighing 3 lbs 9.6 oz and measuring 16.5 inches long,” the infant’s aunt Lacey Paxman wrote in a GoFundMe appeal for the family. “She is currently in the NICU, gaining strength every day. Mom and baby are both doing OK, but she will need to stay in the hospital until she is ready to come home.”

Family members said the woman did not know she was pregnant until she felt the baby coming early Wednesday morning. According to one Redditor, an obstetrician and a pediatric trauma nurse were both camped nearby and rushed to aid the delivery when she went into labor.

The parents then drove themselves to the campground’s medical facility before being airlifted to a major hospital where the baby could receive specialized intensive care, the Redditor said.

“Since this is their first child and the pregnancy was completely unexpected, my brother and his wife don’t have anything prepared — no baby supplies, no nursery, nothing at all,” Paxman wrote.

“On top of that, the unexpected circumstances have created a heavy financial burden: NICU care (with no release date yet), medical bills, and travel and lodging expenses while they are far from home,” she said.

Surprise deliveries are uncommon but far from unheard of, experts say. About 1 in every 500 pregnant women discovers she’s expecting more than 20 weeks along — a phenomenon known as “cryptic pregnancy.”

Cryptic pregnancies are more common among very young mothers, as well as those who may have other health conditions that mask pregnancy symptoms such as nausea, exhaustion and even missed periods. Like the Burner mother, a subset of such parents only discovers they’re pregnant when they go into labor.

Pregnant women, young children and even babies are a regular feature of the nine-day Burning Man festival, which draws tens of thousands of people each year to a desolate strip of the Nevada desert about 120 miles north of Reno.

Still, births are all but unheard at the celebration of “community, art, self-expression and self-reliance.”

The surprise delivery occurred just hours after a white-out dust storm ground incoming traffic to a halt as festivalgoers streamed in and attempted to set camp on Monday.

The dramatic weather recalled torrential rains that flooded the camp in 2023, leaving thousands stranded in deep, sticky mud.

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August 29, 2025
North Shore teachers call state of schools ‘a crisis’ at forum

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BEVERLY — More than 100 North Shore educators and elected officials gathered Thursday night on Cabot Street to hear the stories of teachers like Brittany McGrail.

McGrail, who works at O’Maley Innovation Middle School in Gloucester, gave birth to her son this spring four weeks earlier than she expected. It was a medically necessary decision to protect both of their health, but one that would cut into the time she could spend with her newborn down the line.

McGrail’s original due date would have allowed her to take off the rest of the school year to bond and care for her baby without going unpaid. With the new date, and because she’d gotten sick with COVID-19 earlier that year, she didn’t have enough time off for her maternity leave to last through the summer.

Her choice: work the last days of school while she was still recovering, or take them off unpaid because public school teachers in Massachusetts are not guaranteed paid parental leave.

“It was a lot of money (we’d lose), but it was a decision that we had to make,” McGrail said. “As I sat there on the day I would be going back to work, I was still bleeding. I was covered in breast milk. I had a baby who was spitting up and had been sleeping for 45 minutes to an hour and a half.

“I was in no condition to teach a child, and I would have been going back had I not been lucky with my due date.”

While Massachusetts has a law that ensures many workers in the state have access to paid medical and family leave, this does not include municipal workers such as teachers. Until that’s changed at the state level, it’s up to local communities to decide if their teachers can opt-in to the state’s paid family and medical leave program without relying on accrued time off.

This was just one issue educators discussed during a forum on the state of local schools held Thursday night at the First Baptist Church in Beverly.

Officials in attendance included Beverly Mayor Mike Cahill, Gloucester Mayor Greg Verga and state Sen. Joan Lovely, D-Salem.

Hosted by North Shore Educators United, educators from Gloucester, Beverly, Marblehead and Revere shared how they’ve been impacted by schools without enough funding, wages that can’t support their families — especially for paraprofessionals — and the need for more support for students with emotional and social struggles.

Gloucester educator Kathy Interrante tore her rotator cuff when she was attacked by a student she was trying to calm down and needed surgery, she said. Beverly special education teacher Caroline Gilligan said she has been stabbed in the chest with pencils, had chunks of hair pulled out and comes home with bruises from students weekly.

It’s not rare for a teacher to leave work with scratches or bruises, or for them to be crying because of verbal abuse from students, the panel said.

Often, reports of attacks or severely inappropriate behavior by students are not responded to by administration, one Revere teacher said.

Without a properly staffed team of social workers, paraprofessionals and other types of support staff in schools, teachers are seeing larger class sizes and students are receiving less help when they need it, Marblehead educator Patrick O’Sullivan said.

“I was a professional firefighter for 34 years,” he said. “I saw more of my share of stabbings, shootings, overdoses and everything else, but nothing prepared me for what this is like with fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade kids in these conditions.”

There’s a crisis in local schools that’s causing more educators to quit, panelists said. The source, according to them: a lack of funding that leads to layoffs and a lack of fair pay for those who stay behind.

Marblehead teacher Mike Giardi said that while it takes a village to raise kids, teachers have to rely on individuals in the community, such as parents and businesses, to buy supplies or help fund programs at times.

“We are public education,” Giardi said. “Teaching kids is everyone’s responsibility, and I don’t think that we have done a great job of doing that.”

School libraries have gone unstaffed, electives have been scaled back and class sizes are larger than before, educators said.

“There is not enough staff in our schools to provide the required services to all students,” said Laura Newton, an elementary speech-language pathologist in Beverly. “If parents and the community knew how badly students’ legally required IEPs were being violated, they would be appalled.”

Many paraprofessionals work multiple jobs just to make ends meet, at the cost of spending time with family. Gloucester paraprofessional Margaret Rudolph said when her daughter saw her total earnings of $25,000 for a year, she quipped that she makes more working part time while in college.

“It’s embarrassing that I’ve committed to educating our youth, yet they make more than me working in the retail industry in their after-school jobs,” Rudolph said.

Contact Caroline Enos at CEnos@gloucestertimes.com.

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August 25, 2024
Baby girl dies after boating in Lake Havasu on 120-degree day; investigation launched

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The Sheriff’s Office in Mohave County, Ariz., is investigating the death of a baby girl earlier this month after her parents took her boating in 120-degree heat.

The 4-month-old fell unconscious shortly after 5 p.m. July 5 while on a boat on Lake Havasu — a reservoir straddling the state line between Mohave County and California’s San Bernardino County, the department said in a statement.

The infant was taken to Havasu Regional Medical Center in Lake Havasu City to be treated for heat-related illness, and was pronounced dead after she was transferred to Phoenix Children’s Hospital, the department said.

Mohave sheriff’s officials did not name the parents or the child, but a GoFundMe account identified the mother as Alyssa Wroblewski and the girl as Tanna Rae.

The baby’s father, identified by the “Today” show as Matthew, is believed to be a law enforcement officer in the Inland Empire. State records indicate he’s a police detective.

Alyssa Wroblewski did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.

The infant’s death occurred amid an excessive heat warning in Mohave County. Temperatures around Lake Havasu regularly soar well into the triple digits in the summer, and reached 120 degrees on July 5, according to National Weather Service data.

Last year, more than 4,426 people went to emergency rooms in the state for heat-related illnesses, including 215 people in Mohave County, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.

The recent heatwave also claimed the life of a 2-year-old girl in Marana, Ariz., southeast of Phoenix, after her father left her sleeping in a car with the air conditioning on while he ran inside the house, according to the Marana Police Department. The vehicle, police said, stopped running at some point.

The GoFundMe post for the Wroblewskis said they were enjoying a day on the lake when Tanna lost consciousness. Her parents tried to resuscitate her before a Lake Havasu City Fire Department crew arrived.

“Our precious baby girl gave us her last smiles and we gave her our last kisses,” the post read. “We will never understand why you had to leave so soon, you were just too perfect.”

The GoFundMe account included photos of the family, including one of baby Tanna smiling widely and dressed in a monster-truck onesie, a bow on her head.

Shortly after the child’s death, Alyssa Wroblewski posted a tribute to her on Facebook, according to the “Today” show.

“These are the last photos I took of you before you left us,” Wroblewski wrote in the July 8 post. “Your smile radiated joy. … I never thought there would be a day in my life without you.”

Wroblewski said the family was struggling to make sense of what happened that day.

Her July 8 post has since been made private or taken down. Some Facebook users had criticized Wroblewski and her husband for taking the infant boating amid such high temperatures, according to KSLA News 12.

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July 11, 2024
Caretakers fatally punch and smother 5-month-old, Texas cops say. Mom among 3 arrested

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A 5-month-old infant died days after he was taken to the hospital for severe brain injuries. The mother and two caretakers were charged, Texas cops said. Photo by Getty Images This is a stock image downloaded from Getty Images. It is a Royalty Free image.

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A 5-month-old infant died days after arriving at a Texas hospital with severe brain injuries, according to news outlets. Three people are accused of causing the injuries, police said in a news release.

Hospital staff reported possible child abuse on May 8 when the child arrived, police said. He died five days later on May 13.

The child was suffering from a brain bleed and skull fracture, KCBD reported.

Kristal Morse, 22, and Casey Harbison, 23, were charged with aggravated assault and 43-year-old Tiffany Whalen was charged with injury to a child, Lubbock police said.Whalen is reportedly the child’s mother, according to local news outlets.

Morse and Harbison initially said the child was not injured on purpose, according to court documents, but then they both told police they had punched the child while Whalen was in the room, KCBD reported.

Harbison also told police he had suffocated the child with a blanket saying, “It was an accident,” according to an affidavit obtained by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. “I never wanted to hurt him. There will be no next time regardless.”

Both Morse and Harbison had been living with Whalen because they fled Washington state after they were investigated by Child Protective Services for neglecting a child, according to KCBD.

The case is still under investigation and additional charges are possible, according to police.

Kate Linderman covers real-time news for McClatchy. Previously, she was an audience editor at the Chicago Tribune and a freelance reporter. Kate is a graduate of DePaul University where she studied journalism and legal and public affairs communication.

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May 16, 2024
Palmdale landfill searched for missing infant’s remains; parents arrested in Utah

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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigators have begun searching the Antelope Valley Landfill for the remains of an infant who disappeared in Palmdale earlier this month, law enforcement officials said late Tuesday.

“Unfortunately, this started off as a missing infant and now it is a death investigation,” Lt. Omar Camacho told The Times. “We’re searching [the landfill] based on where the investigation has taken us, and unfortunately we weren’t able to find anything today.”

The missing child, Baki Dewees, was born April 14 and last seen in Palmdale on May 3, according to a flier distributed by his family on Facebook.

“My family & I [are] desperately asking for your help,” the child’s great aunt wrote on Facebook. “Baki is only 3 weeks old. Please help us bring Baki home to his grandmother.”

Two days after giving birth, the mother — 25-year-old Rosealani Gaoa — was arrested in Ogden, Utah, on suspicion of aggravated child abuse, intentional child abuse and reckless child abuse, jail records show.

At the time, Camacho said, Gaoa’s four children and the baby’s father were all with her in Utah. Afterward, family welfare officials there took custody of the child at the center of the abuse allegations. Camacho referred further questions about the nature of that case to officials in Ogden.

“We didn’t investigate that case, nor did we have the specifics of it,” he said, noting that the alleged abuse occurred in Utah.

One law enforcement source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said the victim in that case is Baki’s oldest sister.

After Gaoa’s arrest, the children’s father, Yusuf Dewees, 24, left Utah with the couple’s three remaining children and returned to Palmdale, officials said.

But he came back to Ogden several days later, possibly so that authorities there could interview him, Camacho said. Jail records show he was arrested on May 7 and held without bail on suspicion of obstruction of justice and making a false statement.

The law enforcement source not cleared to speak publicly said Dewees was arrested after being questioned about Baki’s disappearance and allegedly lying to police in Ogden. Camacho did not say whether the alleged obstruction stemmed from the incidents in California or in Utah.

Ogden Police Lt. Glen Buss said police in Utah first contacted Dewees and Gaoa at a homeless shelter. He referred additional questions about the nature of their arrest to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department, saying the two departments are working in conjunction.

The case came to the attention of Sheriff’s Department officials after the infant’s grandmother made a missing person report sometime around May 8. Deputies responded to the 2300 block of Carolyn Drive in Palmdale regarding her call, according to a news release. Camacho said the matter was forwarded to the department’s Homicide Bureau a day later. On Tuesday, he said it was still too early in the investigation to release information about why officials believe the child is dead or how it is suspected he died.

Searchers who began combing the landfill on Tuesday were looking for “specific things,” Camacho said. But he said finding the child’s remains could prove a difficult undertaking that might require cutting down through layers of refuse. The search could use machinery or cadaver dogs, he said, but “the only way possible at times is just with human hands.”

Authorities will resume their search on Wednesday, according to the law enforcement source, who said the couple lives in Palmdale.

“If we had believed that the child was still alive we would have asked the public for help,” Camacho said. “But at this point in time, unfortunately, that’s not the case. Now we’re just trying to get some closure for the family.”

The remaining two children in California have since been removed by child welfare officials, Camacho said. It was not clear why the family was in Utah.

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May 14, 2024
An infant dead on the 405; a man slain; a fatal crash: Police connect 3 separate crime scenes

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The death of an infant on the 405 Freeway near Culver City may be connected to a Topanga-area slaying and a deadly crash in Redondo Beach, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed Monday.

Officers were dispatched to the 6200 block of Variel Avenue in Woodland Hills around 7:35 a.m. Monday, where they found an unresponsive man in his 30s. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives later learned of two incidents that had occurred earlier in the morning and might have ties to their homicide investigation, LAPD said.

Around 4:30 a.m., officers were called to the northbound 405 Freeway near the Sepulveda Boulevard/Howard Hughes Parkway exit, according to the California Highway Patrol. An infant girl about 5 or 6 months old was found in the roadway, and a 9-year-old girl was found on the right shoulder.

The infant was pronounced dead at the scene, and the girl was taken to a hospital with minor to moderate injuries. A 911 caller reported seeing a black sedan near where the girls were found, according to City News Service.

“At this time, Valley Bureau Homicide detectives are working with the California Highway Patrol on the incident involving the two children and believe it is connected to the Topanga homicide scene,” LAPD said on X.

In a further twist, the LAPD and CHP are collaborating with the Redondo Beach Police Department to determine whether the two violent scenes are connected to a fatal car crash in the beach city that involved a black sedan, L.A. police said.

The collision occurred around 5 a.m. Monday when a female driver crashed into a tree. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

CBS News reported that detectives identified a suspect in their investigation as the mother of the children found on the freeway and the wife of the man found in Topanga.

The LAPD did not confirm this information when reached by phone.

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April 8, 2024
What you need to know about the new RSV shot for babies
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Ahead of the winter respiratory virus season, many parents were relieved the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a shot to combat respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, for infants and toddlers this summer.

But the shot is hard to come by.

RSV is a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms in most adults who recover in a week or two, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But that’s not the case for infants and toddlers, who are at higher risk of the virus becoming severe or life-threatening.

The first vaccine for RSV was approved in May and was targeted for older adults.

Two months later, federal regulators approved the first long-lasting shot for infants younger than 8 months who are entering their first RSV season. According to the CDC, Nirsevimab, which is made by AstraZeneca and sold under the brand name Beyfortus, reduces the risk of severe RSV by 80%. One dose lasts about five months, the length of the average RSV season.

The shot does not activate the immune system the way a vaccine would, but instead introduces antibodies to protect against RSV. Health officials with the CDC say once the antibodies are out of a baby’s system, the immunity is also gone.

Amid the peak of RSV season, there has been unprecedented demand for the shot and not enough supplies to go around.

The CDC recently announced the release of more than 77,000 additional doses to be distributed immediately to physicians and hospitals through the Vaccines for Children Program. The CDC and FDA are working with drug manufacturers to ensure availability through early next year.

What preventive measures can parents can take?

Children at high risk include those 6 months and younger, infants born prematurely, those younger than 2 with congenital heart disease and those with weakened immune systems who have neuromuscular disorders, according to the American Lung Assn.

Previously, the only immunization against severe RSV for babies was a shot women could get during weeks 32 through 36 of pregnancy. That shot is still available and recommended September through January.

There also are everyday preventive measures to help reduce the spread of RSV and other respiratory illnesses, according to health agencies such as the CDC, American Lung Assn. and the California Department of Public Health:
- Stay home if you’re feeling sick.
- If you need to leave your home, consider wearing a mask in crowded or indoor areas.
- Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.
- Avoid touching your face with unwashed hands.
- Cover your mouth and nose when you cough and sneeze.
- Avoid close contact with others, such as kissing, shaking hands and sharing cups and utensils.
- Clean frequently touched surfaces, including doorknobs and mobile devices.
What are the signs of RSV?

RSV affects both the upper respiratory system, which includes the nose and throat, and the lower respiratory system, which includes the lungs.

The virus is highly transmissible. You can catch it if the droplets from an infected person’s cough or sneeze get in your eyes, nose or mouth; if you touch a surface (such as a doorknob) that has the virus on it and then touch your face before washing your hands; or if you have direct contact with the virus (for example, by kissing the face of a child with RSV). Being in crowded places with people who may be infected or having exposure to other children or siblings who may be infected are common ways to pick up the virus.

RSV can survive for many hours on hard surfaces such as tables and crib rails; it has a shorter life span on softer surfaces such as tissues and hands.

A person infected with RSV is usually contagious for three to eight days. However, some infants and people with weakened immune systems can continue to spread the virus for as long as four weeks, even after their symptoms go away, according to the CDC.

Virtually all children get an RSV infection by the time they are 2, but the virus can cause complications, the CDC said.

Health agencies recommend parents reach out to their healthcare provider if their child is showing signs of infection.

According to health officials at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the most common symptoms are runny nose; fever; cough; short periods without breathing; trouble eating, drinking or swallowing; wheezing, flaring of nostrils or straining of the chest or stomach while breathing; breathing faster than usual or trouble breathing; and turning blue around the lips and fingers.

These symptoms can seem like other health conditions, so the hospital advises parents to have their child see a healthcare provider for a diagnosis.
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November 22, 2023
Opinion: Why shouldn’t elephants have rights? They’re intelligent beings who can feel joy and sorrow

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The California Supreme Court is considering whether to grant a hearing for three elephants — Nolwazi, Amahle and Mabu — at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo. If granted, the hearing would determine whether these elephants are being unjustly detained, and whether they should be relocated to a sanctuary.

Elephants are sensitive, intelligent beings who feel joy and sorrow, have meaningful projects and relationships and often walk many miles per day in the wild. As a result, they tend to suffer in captive environments like zoos. When their freedom is restricted, they have an increased risk of developing joint disorders and damaged tusks. They also are more likely to experience boredom, depression and aggression.

Accordingly, the Nonhuman Rights Project, which submitted the petition, is urging the court to recognize that Nolwazi, Amahle and Mabu have a right to bodily liberty in a habeas corpus hearing, which can be used to determine whether their detention is lawful. Scholars in a wide range of fields, myself included, are submitting amicus letters to the court in support of the basic idea of elephant rights.

Why is it necessary to recognize elephant rights? Why not simply rely on existing welfare protections to prevent cruelty? When elephants are seen as lacking rights, we can protect them as “property” or as a matter of public interest. But such protections leave elephants vulnerable when their “owners” and the public are insufficiently concerned about them. By recognizing elephant rights, we can safeguard against abuse and neglect even when welfare protections are inadequate.

The idea of elephant rights is surprisingly minimal. When we say that elephants have rights, we are not necessarily saying that they have the same rights as us. (Among human beings, for example, infants have different rights than adults.) We also are not saying that they have duties. (Again, infants can have rights without duties.) Our claim is only that elephants can have rights that reflect their own interests and vulnerabilities.

Additionally, recognizing that elephants have a right to liberty does not necessarily mean releasing them into the wild; elephants, like humans, may not always be able to live independently. Instead, it simply means granting elephants as much freedom as possible for them. In the case of Nolwazi, Amahle and Mabu, that means being released to a sanctuary accredited by the Global Federation of Animal Sanctuaries.

Last year the Fresno Superior Court denied a similar petition for the elephants at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo because they are not being held in state custody, and the 5th District Court of Appeal denied a second petition. Now, the Nonhuman Rights Project is urging the California Supreme Court to decide that privately detained individuals, including elephants, can qualify for habeas relief too.

This case is not the first of its kind. The New York Court of Appeals recently considered a similar petition involving Happy, an elephant at the Bronx Zoo. In 2021, the court granted a hearing on Happy’s habeas claim, marking the first time that the highest court in an English-speaking jurisdiction allowed such a hearing for a nonhuman animal. But the court ultimately sided with the zoo.

Thus far, the rationalizations courts have used to reject elephant rights show little basis in logic or the law. For instance, the majority in the Happy case argued that you can have rights only if you have specific genes (why?) and only if you can have duties (again, what about infants?). They also suggested that you can access habeas relief only if you can live independently (once more: infants).

The majority in the Happy case also expressed concern about a slippery slope: If an animal in a zoo has the right to liberty, what about animals in farms and labs? And if those animals have that right, how can society still function? Perhaps a decision with this much disruptive potential is best made by legislatures.

However, as two dissenting judges noted, this buck-passing argument fails too. It might be ideal for legislatures to address this issue. But at present, few are willing to do so. In the meantime, the judiciary has a duty to assess each case before it on the merits. When a petitioner makes a credible allegation about an unjust detention, the relevant court should hear that case.

Moreover, if courts fear a slippery slope, the solution is not to ignore rights violations. Yes, when violations occur in large numbers, addressing them all might be disruptive. But to look the other way because of the scale of the problem would be to treat injustice, perversely, as too big to fail. Courts should instead make narrow rulings about particular violations, leaving the rest for another day.

To be sure, legislatures should address this issue too. Last month, Ojai became the first U.S. city to recognize legal rights for nonhuman animals when it passed an ordinance declaring that elephants have the right to liberty. Such legislation can work in tandem with, not replace, judicial attention to current unjust detentions.

The California Supreme Court needs to address the elephants in the room. However the judges decide this case, they should not refuse to hear it on the grounds that Nolwazi, Amahle and Mabu lack rights. Elephants, like humans, merit legal consideration for their own sake. Humans have both a right and a duty to give them their day in court.

Jeff Sebo is an associate professor of environmental studies, affiliated professor of bioethics, medical ethics, philosophy and law, and director of the animal studies master of arts program at New York University. His most recent book is “Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves.”

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October 23, 2023
Pfizer gets FDA green light for new shot that can streamline teenagers’ vaccinations

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The new Pfizer shot, Penbraya, protects against the five most common subgroups of meningococcal disease, a rare but serious and potentially fatal illness that most often affects babies and teenagers.

Penbraya “has the potential to protect more adolescents and young adults from this severe and unpredictable disease by providing the broadest meningococcal coverage in the fewest shots,” Annaliesa Anderson, Pfizer senior vice president and head of vaccine research and development, said in a statement.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommends that all 11- to 12-year-olds get a meningococcal vaccine protecting against four of the subgroups — A, C, W and Y — and get a booster dose of the same vaccine type at age 16. Teenagers and young adults age 16 to 23 may also get a meningococcal B vaccine, the CDC says, particularly if they’re at increased risk due to other health conditions.

The complex vaccination schedule has weighed on uptake of the meningococcal shots, and the COVID-19 pandemic may have compounded the problem, as many families missed routine appointments when vaccinations were due, researchers say. Among teenagers who were born in 2008 — who were due for their routine adolescent vaccinations as the pandemic was raging in 2020 — uptake of meningococcal and other recommended vaccines declined, according to CDC research. Only about 60% of the 17-year-olds surveyed by the CDC last year had received both recommended doses of the ACWY vaccine, and fewer than 30% had received at least one dose of the meningococcal B vaccine.

The new Pfizer shot combines components of a meningococcal group B vaccine and an ACWY vaccine.

A CDC immunization advisory committee is set to meet Oct. 25 to discuss recommendations for the use of Penbraya in teenagers and young adults, Pfizer said.

The green light for Penbraya gives Pfizer the edge in its race with GSK
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which is also working on a five-in-one meningococcal shot. GSK earlier this year released positive late-stage clinical-trial results for that vaccine.

The FDA approval of Pfizer’s shot caps a rocky week for the pharmaceutical giant, which late last Friday cut $9 billion from its full-year revenue guidance due to reduced COVID sales expectations and announced a cost-cutting program designed to deliver savings of at least $3.5 billion. Pfizer executives said on a call with analysts Monday that development of combination respiratory vaccines, such as those that provide COVID and flu protection in one shot, remains a focus for the company, in part because they can help boost vaccine uptake.

Pfizer shares were down 1.7% Friday and have dropped 40% in the year to date, while the S&P 500
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October 20, 2023
Study Finds Crocodiles Attracted To Distressed Cries Of Infants

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A study that played the sounds of human and other ape babies crying out over a speaker found that crocodiles were drawn to the noises, in particular to the shrieks that sounded the most distressed. What do you think?

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“It’s a good thing my distressed cries are so manly.”

David Barnes, Cracker Perforator

“This is just natural selection doing its part to weed out annoying kids.”

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August 10, 2023
A robust booster campaign could prevent millions of missed school days among children ages 5 to 17, report finds

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If 80% of children ages 5 and older get their COVID booster shots by the end of 2022, it could prevent about 29 million missed days of school and almost 51,000 hospitalizations, according to a new report.

And if COVID booster coverage simply matches 2020-21 flu-vaccination levels by year’s end, it would prevent about 22 million missed school days, said the report published by the Commonwealth Fund.

“We expand our previous analysis to include the impact on pediatric hospitalizations, pediatric isolation days, and school absenteeism (among children ages 5 to 17), demonstrating both the health benefits of vaccination and the importance of vaccination uptake for maintaining uninterrupted in-school education,” the authors wrote in the report.

The number of days absent from school was calculated based on five days of required isolation for children in that age group who experience mild symptomatic illness and 10 days for children who have severe illness or require hospitalization.

Source: Commonwealth Fund

An effective booster campaign would considerably reduce the strain on pediatric hospitals this winter, many of which are currently seeing high numbers of children with respiratory syncytial virus, known as RSV, and the flu, the authors wrote.

“Throughout the pandemic, children have experienced direct health burdens as well as enormous upheaval in their personal and educational lives,” the report said. “Accelerated vaccination campaigns that achieve high coverage across all ages have the potential to prevent a possible imminent surge in COVID-19, protecting children both directly and indirectly and providing them with additional stability in terms of school attendance and other social engagement.”

Now read: A strong fall COVID booster campaign could save 90,000 U.S. lives and avoid more than 936,000 hospitalizations, study finds

The report comes as known U.S. cases of COVID are climbing again for the first time in a few months. The daily average for new cases stood at 39,459 on Monday, according to a New York Times tracker, up 4% versus two weeks ago.

Cases are rising the most in the Southwest, led by Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico — states that are also seeing hospitalization numbers climb by more than 30% in the last two weeks.

The daily average for U.S. hospitalizations was up 1% at 27,662.

On a brighter note, the daily death tally continues to fall and is down 13% to 302 from two weeks ago.

Physicians are reporting high numbers of respiratory illnesses like RSV and the flu earlier than the typical winter peak. WSJ’s Brianna Abbott explains what the early surge means for the winter months. Photo illustration: Kaitlyn Wang

Coronavirus Update: MarketWatch’s daily roundup has been curating and reporting all the latest developments every weekday since the coronavirus pandemic began

Other COVID-19 news you should know about:

• China’s ruling party called for strict adherence to its hard-line “zero-COVID” policy Tuesday in an apparent attempt to guide public perceptions after regulations were eased slightly in places, the Associated Press reported. The news may disappoint Chinese citizens who have clashed with police and COVID workers to show their frustration over lockdowns and restrictions on movement. The People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s flagship newspaper, said in an editorial that China must “unswervingly implement” the policy that requires mass obligatory testing and places millions under lockdown in an attempt to eliminate the coronavirus from the nation of 1.4 billion people.

• Japan will lift a ban on international cruise ships that has lasted more than two and half years, transport officials said Tuesday, the AP reported separately. The ban was imposed following a deadly coronavirus outbreak on the cruise ship Diamond Princess at the beginning of the pandemic. The Transport Ministry said cruise-ship operators and port authorities associations have adopted antivirus guidelines and that Japan is now ready to resume its international cruise operations and to receive foreign ships at its ports.

The new bivalent vaccine might be the first step in developing annual COVID shots, which could follow a similar process to the one used to update flu vaccines every year. Here’s what that process looks like, and why applying it to COVID could be challenging. Illustration: Ryan Trefes

• Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen tested positive for COVID-19 after meeting with world leaders, including President Joe Biden, at a summit of Southeast Asian nations last week, the Wall Street Journal reported. Mr. Hun Sen held one-on-one talks with Biden on Saturday on the sidelines of the regional discussions in Phnom Penh. Biden — who is on a five-day trip to Asia to attend a series of summits — then traveled to Bali, Indonesia, where he sat down on Monday with Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a face-to-face meeting that stretched over three hours.

• Australia will overturn a three-year ban on tennis player Novak Djokovic entering the country, paving the way for the former top-ranked player to take part in the 2023 Australian Open, CNN reported, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter. Australian Immigration Minister Andrew Giles will lift the ban, the source said.

Here’s what the numbers say:

The global tally of confirmed cases of COVID-19 topped 635.6 million on Monday, while the death toll rose above 6.61 million, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University.

The U.S. leads the world with 98 million cases and 1,074,691 fatalities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s tracker shows that 227.8 million people living in the U.S., equal to 68.6% of the total population, are fully vaccinated, meaning they have had their primary shots.

So far, just 31.4 million Americans have had the updated COVID booster that targets the original virus and the omicron variants, equal to 10.1% of the overall population.

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November 15, 2022
COVID-19 may be to blame for the surge in RSV illness among children. Here’s why.

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A number of young children are being hospitalized because of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, and it’s happening at an unusual time of year and among older children than in years past.

RSV infections and related emergency-room visits and hospitalizations are nearing seasonal peaks in some U.S. regions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But the current RSV outbreak is different from previous outbreaks in several ways: It’s happening in the fall rather than the winter (RSV commonly peaks after the holidays, starting in late December); older children and not just infants are being hospitalized; and cases are occurring that are more severe than in previous years. And this year, RSV is circulating at the same time as COVID, influenza, and other viruses like the biennial enterovirus, which was behind a rise in pediatric hospitalizations earlier this fall.

“The theory is that everyone’s now back together, and this is a rebound phenomenon,” said Jeffrey Kline, a physician and associate chair of research for emergency medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit.

Kline runs a national surveillance network that gathers data about viral infections from about 70 hospitals, including four pediatric hospitals. He says those data show that 318 children were hospitalized with acute respiratory illness brought on by RSV in the week starting Oct. 9, compared with 45 hospitalizations in the week starting July 25.

“If we think about the relative increase — ninefold increase — that’s not nothing, especially in the pediatric [emergency departments],” Kline said. “Holy mackerel.”

Source: CDC

The U.S. saw a massive spike in RSV cases in the summer of 2021, after masking and social distancing resulted in a lull in infections the previous year. Even with that spike, fewer young children — 2-, 3-, and 4-year-olds — have been exposed to RSV than in a normal year. Most children have usually had at least one RSV infection by the time they are 2 years old, and as children get older, RSV becomes less worrisome, according to the CDC. Infants are at higher risk for severe disease brought on by RSV because babies have more immature immune responses than older children and because infants younger than 6 months of age breathe exclusively through their noses and cannot breathe through their mouths if they are congested.

“Age by itself is a risk factor for more severe disease, meaning that the younger babies are usually the ones that are sick-sick,” said Asuncion Mejias, a principal investigator with the Center for Vaccines and Immunity at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Now, she added, “we are seeing also older kids, probably because they were not exposed to RSV the previous season.”

But there’s another reason that COVID may be worsening some RSV infections in the youngest children. Mejias is studying whether a prior COVID infection or exposure somehow changes the way a baby’s immune system responds to RSV and whether it may lead to more severe illness from an RSV infection.

“That is something to work on and understand,” she said.

For now, however, worries are tied to the possibility of a “tripledemic” of COVID, influenza, and RSV as the U.S. heads into what is expected to be a complicated season for respiratory infections. Stat News reported in mid-October that flu season is already underway, and the CDC said this week that this year’s flu activity may have “atypical timing and intensity.”

COVID itself remains a threat, as well. There are still more children being hospitalized with COVID than with RSV, Kline said, and some kids are getting sick from both viruses at the same time. About 5% of children are thought to test positive for both RSV and COVID, and 60% of the children in that group were hospitalized, according to Kline’s surveillance network.

“All these things are going on all at once right now,” said Alex Frost, managing director for StudyMaker, which is providing software infrastructure to the network. “But the shape of pediatric cases that are showing up in the emergency room is different than it used to be.”

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October 28, 2022
What Expecting Mom’s Are Missing

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The original 4 piece car seat cover is all the rage with polished moms who want their infant protected.

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KD Combo LLC, a rising brand in lifestyle baby goods, will release their 10 piece Leisure Collection Friday, April 14. The company attributes its recent success to the debut of their Tailored Fit infant car seat cover. The Leisure Collection is named for its comfortable, stretchy, breathable knits. Each fitted cover will be featured in various prints.

Current trends have seen a rise in popularity of the fitted style cover. The Tailored Fit cover was designed to freshen up the look. Danny Robbins, KD Combo owner, describes the thought behind the collection, “We’ve clearly seen a specific demand for our Tailored Fit covers from our Insiders and the market in general. For this release, we’ve given attention to that feedback and created an improved, appealing, and superior alternative to what is on the market.”

KD Combo can be distinguished by our 4-piece car seat cover design. Which allows us to introduce the baseball T style in our upcoming Leisure Collection by mixing patterns.

Danny & Kyrsten Robbins, Owners

KD Combo can be distinguished by its 4-piece design which allows them to introduce the baseball T style. This unique design provides a cleaner fit while distributing tension across additional seams, helping to broaden the “one size fits most” portfolio of infant car seats. While designing these Tailored Fit covers, Kyrsten Robbins, co-owner, explains, “To create the perfect silhouette we paid extra close attention to detail so our covers won’t touch the ground on a wet day or at the doctor’s office. Also, the length will cover even a long torso if you’re using it as a multi-functional nursing cover.”

To further expand the appeal, exclusive gender neutral textiles have been added for new moms expecting baby boys. “We understand there’s a lack of designer boy accessories on the market. These prints are harder to find in quality fabrics, but we think we nailed it in the Leisure Collection,” added Kyrsten Robbins.

ABOUT KDCOMBO

KD Combo is an emerging baby lifestyle brand that creates designer infant car seat covers for the polished mom. KD Combo offers a $10 off coupon code for customers who sign up for the KD Combo Insider, where they receive exclusive deals and are first to know of new products. (eepurl.com/b7zecL) KD Combo is a husband and wife duo. Kyrsten’s love of textiles comes from her degree in Interior Design and Danny’s MBA propels their entrepreneurial spirit and creative thinking.

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April 11, 2017
KD Combo Introduces the Tailored Fit Car Seat Cover in Their Coming Home Collection

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KD Combo is set to premier their original pattern in the Coming Home Collection: The perfect gift for the polished mom.

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KD Combo LLC, an up and coming baby lifestyle brand, has announced the release of its 17-piece Coming Home Collection on October 18, 2016. The highly anticipated collection is for new moms, or once again mothers, with a weakness for fashion. “Our customers have loved our classic car seat covers, featuring cascading ruffles, which are perfect for baby girls,” says Designer Kyrsten Robbins. “We’ve received tons of requests for more masculine covers and really haven’t felt that we had the perfect answer, until now! These new Tailored Fit covers are all the rage and are gender neutral.”

The 5 styles of Tailored Fit covers are exclusive to KD Combo. The 4 piece pattern was designed with fresh materials, simple usability, and shaped to minimize stretching and excess fabric over hang. Four pieces allows the distribution of tension over 4 seams as opposed to the standard 2 piece alternative.

Our customers have loved our classic car seat covers, featuring cascading ruffles, which are perfect for baby girls. We’ve received tons of requests more masculine covers and really haven’t felt that we had the perfect answer, until now! These new Tailored Fit covers are all the rage and are gender neutral.

Kyrsten Robbins, Designer & Owner

It’s important for moms to have the ability to set their car seat down in doctors’ offices, restaurants, and on wet days without worrying about their cover touching the ground. Three styles have medium weight textiles to insulate better in colder temps, while 2 more lightweight options are in buttery soft jersey. The shape of these covers fit perfectly around car seats providing a cozy space for babies to sleep, bonus germ barrier & they won’t flip up in the breeze.

The ultimate challenge, for KD Combo, was creating a pattern for their customers that would be multi-functional. They are proud to say, mission accomplished! The Tailored Fit was designed with nursing mamas in mind. It can double as a 360-degree nursing cover, if desired.

“We are excited for the launch of the Coming Home Collection that our fans have been waiting months for. I know our customers will love to have something special in their hospital bags or shortly after the arrival of their babes. These covers are different from anything else in the industry,” says Kyrsten. It is important to KD Combo to provide products that meet mom’s standards of simple, comfortable and functional. “Mom’s need comfort, especially in those first months as the family welcomes home their newborn(s),” says Danny Robbins, Owner of KD Combo.

The ruffled covers are a classic canopy style in the KD Combo brand. Three more seasonal colors will be released, in addition to their 5 most popular solids. The positive response to the genuine leather straps with brass snap closures, indicate these styles will sell out quickly. The Coming Home Collection also features styles with a new flower accessory positioned on the iconic left side.

KD Combo is pleased with the initial reception of the Coming Home Collection and can’t wait to get their covers into the hands of their customers.

About KD Combo

Danny & Kyrsten Robbins, husband and wife duo, established KD Combo in the Summer of 2015. Kyrsten graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Interior Design with a love of high-end textiles and pattern creation. Danny Robbins’ MBA & entrepreneurial spirit propelled the couple forward with creative thinking in current trends. KD Combo is an emerging baby essential brand that creates designer infant car seat covers for the polished mom.

Contact us at hello@kdcombo.com for interviews or more photos. KD Combo offers a $10 OFF coupon code for customers who join the KD Combo Insider, where they receive exclusive promotions not given to the public and are first to know of new products, pre-sales & lots of extra spoiling. http://eepurl.com/b7zecL.

To view the entire Coming Home Collection check out our shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/KDCombo on Oct 18. New website coming soon. Kdcombo.com

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