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Tummy Shield | Pregnancy Seat Belt Positioner

Tummy Shield | Pregnancy Seat Belt Positioner

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Regular price $ 165.00 USD
Regular price $ 175.00 USD Sale price $ 165.00 USD

You’ll spend hundreds in car seats to protect your baby after it’s born yet unborn babies are at least at 5 times the risk in the car. Tummy Shield is like an affordable insurance policy that gives you peace of mind knowing you are doing everything you can to protect your baby during pregnancy too with Baby’s First Car Seat™.

  • The only maternity seat belt positioner that is strength tested and crash tested (see below) to ensure it will withstand crash energy and the seat belt will still work as intended.
  • Makes driving while pregnant much more comfortable.

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  • Award-Winning, Crash-Tested Pregnancy Protection

  • Tummy Shield awards
  • Patented design redirects the seat belt, securing the seat belt at the leg, not the across the low belly where it can injure your unborn baby.
  • Stainless steel plate and anchor construction ensures it is as at least as strong as the seat belt and holds the seat belt firmly in place without slippage or excessive slack
  • Fits in seconds and easy to move back and forth between driver's seat and passenger seat or car to car.
  • When is the perfect time to start using a Tummy Shield? When you start buying maternity clothes. By then, the pregnancy starts to move outside the protection of the pelvic bones.

A little piece of insurance and a lot of peace of mind!

"There's a difference between "unregulated" and "unsafe." I am the {CPS} tech who test-drove it in my most recent pregnancy. I really did like it. .... Sadly, we don't have any standards to test these products against so it's up to the consumer to make the best guess she can. But the fact is seat belts don't have to pass any pregnancy-related safety standards either so NOT using the Tummy Shield is just as much of a judgment call."

— E.P., Child Passenger Safety Technician

  • When it comes to car crashes, quality matters more than price. The original Tummy Shield is highly engineered, strength tested and crash tested to ensure it will hold up in a crash and offer better protection to the pregnant woman. Unfortunately, there are counterfeit and similar looking products available online making similar claims but without the crash worthy materials or crash testing behind them. Since there are currently no federal standards for seat belt safety for pregnant women, it is "legal" to sell these products. Our goal is to eventually have the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to set standards. Our number one priority is the safety of our customers so we want to spread awareness about these ineffective pregnancy seat belt products because they will most likely fail during a crash creating increased potential for injury.

"I bought [another brand] and I used it 14 days and it doesn’t give you the right comfort and safe feeling compared to yours!!!"

– Andrea Prokopova

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How Does the Tummy Shield Protect My Unborn Baby?

The Tummy Shield’s specially-engineered, single-piece assembly could one day save the life of your unborn child or protect your baby from a severe brain or spinal injury. Our patented design secures the seat belt at the leg, not the belly or hips where it can crush your unborn baby. Unlike other pregnancy seat belt positioners, stainless steel construction ensures the Tummy Shield will not crack or break upon impact. Our patented hook design prevents slippage and slack in the belt, ensuring the belt stays in place to protect both the driver and the baby in the event of a car accident while pregnant.

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    Automobile crashes are the largest single cause of death for pregnant women and the leading cause of traumatic fetal injury mortality in the United States.” — U.S. National Library of Medicine

    • About 170,000 pregnant women experience car crashes every year.
    • An estimated 3,000 pregnancies are lost from car crashes every year (that’s about 8 a day and may be a conservative estimate).
    • Comparatively speaking that’s 86 times the number of children who are lost in hot car deaths and 39 times the number of infants who are fatally injured in car crashes.

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    You see, the existing seat belt system was not designed or tested to protect women who are driving while pregnant. In fact, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's old website, the current seat belt system exposes an inherent risk for injury, or even death, to an unborn baby.

    This is because the standard seat belt is designed to secure an occupant in the car seat by engaging the hip bones. However, beginning at the start of the second trimester, your unborn baby moves above and in front of your hip bones — directly beneath the seat belt. When engaged by an accident, or even a sudden stop, the belt compresses with extreme speed and force, violently displacing and even crushing your unborn baby.

Listen to why Taylor thinks it's so important for you to use a Tummy Shield during your pregnancy.

Finally Comfort for Your Baby Bump

The Tummy Shield eliminates the pain and discomfort of the standard seat belt by eliminating the pressure on your pregnant belly. And, unlike a curled towel, pillow or hand placed between you and your seat belt — or not wearing the seat belt at all, which is never a safe solution — it’s safe. Protect the life of your unborn child with The Tummy Shield! More comfortable means you're more likely to wear your seat belt for every drive.

Simple to Use

Pregnant drivers and passengers simply place The Tummy Shield on the car seat, wrap the attached belt around the seat, and secure it with the buckle. When seated, buckle the seat as usual, pull the lap portion down and insert into Tummy Shield anchor, then pull the seat belt snug. 

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Is the Tummy Shield Safety Tested?

To ensure the safety of pregnant occupants and their unborn babies, Tummy Shield has undergone extensive testing.

  • Crash tests validate the vehicle's seat belt performance remains compliant with applicable Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards while using the Tummy Shield and the Tummy Shield.
  • Tensile strength tests conclude the Tummy Shield is strong enough to hold up to crash energy without breaking. As far as we've been able to determine, Tummy Shield is the ONLY pregnancy seat belt positioner that was strength and crash tested for safety.

Get more details about how Tummy Shield was tested.

View Tummy Shield Crash Test Videos

Is the Tummy Shield Just for Pregnant Women?

No! The Tummy Shield can also protect the abdominal area during any number of medical procedures or conditions, including:

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    • delivery

    • hysterectomy

  • • hernia

    • gastric bypass

    • lap band

  • • ileostomy

    • gall bladder

    • tummy tuck

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Open Box items are discounted as they are products which were returned unused but perhaps missing some packaging materials. All Open Box items are hand inspected in our office to make sure they have all necessary parts. No Returns on discounted Open Box items. COVID-19 update: as a precaution, all Open Box items will be quarantined before being posted as available on our site.