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Read the thread on this from a few years ago and you will never do it again. [/quote]

Link?[/quote]

Search for "transplant surgeon" and "organ donor."  And maybe "shoulders."  [/quote]

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/64923.page[/quote]

I've read it now and I'll certainly still be carrying my kids that way.  There is no evidence in that post, just a second hand scare that someone heard a surgeon call kids on their parent's shoulders donors.  That's not evidence of anything, nor does it contain any information other than that you need to be sure you are holding them securely enough that if they fling themselves back you won't drop them.  [/quote]

Well, this isn't a court of law, so there's no "evidence" that it is either safe or not safe.  But it is certainly worth thinking about the fact that transplant surgeons view this is a common source of organ donations.  But hey - I don't care what you do.  No need to defend yourself to me.  [/quote]

It's not a fact that transplant surgeon's view it as a common source of organ donations.  It's a fact that one poster on a previous thread reported that they once heard a transplant surgeon say that.  Hardly the same thing.

Can anyone link to any news article or other actual story of a kid dying this way?  I just tried googling it, and I didn't find anything, but I might be using the wrong search terms. [/quote]

To be fair, she said in a later post that she was in the medical field, and that she had heard this more than once.  But I really don't care about this whole thing enough to try to justify her position to you.  You seem like you want to keep carrying your kid on your shoulders.  Have at it.  No need to prove that others should do so too.  (If you are really looking to see whether there are risks here or not, you might want to work on your defensiveness.)[/quote]

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