A Bronx woman who used her 5-year-old son to steal $2,700 worth of merchandise from Bloomingdale’s will be allowed to work in child care.

A split appellate court ruling, released Thursday, reversed a lower court decision that found that Natasha Welsh had put her son in “imminent danger” by stuffing two stolen coats under his clothes and making him wear a pair of boots they hadn’t paid for at a Bloomingdale’s in 2012.

The lower court ruling meant that Welsh’s name would go on a state child abuse registry — which would make it difficult for her to get a job in her chosen field of child care.

But the majority in Thursday’s 3-2 ruling found that the punishment was an overreaction because Welsh’s son was never taken from her.