Walking through the streets of Brighton and Hove, I have become increasingly disturbed by a recent trend, which is that small babies, supported in baby-slings, are carried facing outwards.

Tiny babies should always be carried in close frontal contact with their parent.

This strengthens both their bonding with their parent and their sense of security.

If carried facing forwards, the baby is exposed to a bewildering confusion of constant movement, colour and noise, all of which at so young an age must be completely incomprehensible.

Please, mums and dads, turn your babies around.

Their need is to see and feel you, not the mad kaleidoscope of urban streets.

-Grace Blindell, Coombe Road, Brighton