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Blast that evil carseat. One thing I know is that if mothers had designed it, the backward- facing backseat would not have been the way we would go. I’m sure we could have come up with something better. Or maybe it’s cars that are the problem. Or Maybe we need a redesign of the whole world. Yep, I feel a whole series of comics coming on. We went to the park yesterday and I had to stop TWICE for cry breaks. Alas. But still, we were out and about, and saw friends and had fun. very nice.
xox,
Heather
Awww my girl hated the carseat too! I got super good at driving one handed with my right arm wrenched over back to her!
LOVE the cartoon btw! I suppose it’s one reason I will be skipping the well-baby visits! Sorry, my breasts don’t have ounce markers on them…
Some kids like some carseats more than others… Also, remember that with a rear facing seat you CAN actually reach the baby usually – with the wrenched arm out of socket technique. Which is yet another reason I still rear face my 32 lbs 2 year old – to hand him stuff – and that it’s like 500% safer!
In those early days I had recurring dreams about someone crash-testing slings.
LOL I love the continuous feeding srip, I took my Lil one in for his 2 month check on Friday last week, and the Doc asked me that I said well Im not sure he tends to nurse nything from every 20 minutes to every hour, upto about 4 hours apart at night! he then said…”you know if you can get him to nurse longer he wouldnt nurse as often!” LOL I stated but then it wouldnt be Feeding on demand!…
I really would love to see Doctors get more of an education in breastfeeding!
i have not taken my 3 yr old to a ped since she was 4 months old! (…when i told him we were not vaxing anymore, he freaked and basically kicked us out…) but i found a chiropractor as our family doc and he is so much better than the peds in our area!
my 3 month old has been once to a ped b/c of midwife protocol but will not go back to that one…
i despise carseats as well!
but how long should you let them cry in the seat before stopping? it wounds me to hear any sad noise come from my babies, but i hate to turn a 10 minute car trip into an hour…
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It’s the only time I like driving our extended-cab truck. I can turn the airbag off and put the baby next to me up front. And since the damn thing is so big, it can seat 4 more people or carseats! We live out in the country, and the poor baby has to be in that damn seat for a min. of 30 minutes at a time.
The One continuous strip is PERFECT! Now I don’t feel so alone! Why do I even bother wearing shirts? Especially with my two-year-old daughter AND my son both nursing!!!
I can’t tell are you griping about INSTALLING the blasted things or is it the dreaded “cave-baby vs modern world” carseat thingie? (Another home birth reason, you don’t have to drive home from the hospital & stop 30 times for a normally 30 minute drive!) but I TOTALLY agree with the rear-facing thing! you can REACH in more ways then 1 (I know a mom who road tripped without taking milk breaks with a exclusively mom-fed baby, lol, only works rear facing though) (oh & hubby drove her of course, but someone will ask if I don’t say it) However I agree with your baby, the world is designed all wrong, cars are bad, yep they are! Makes me glad I CAN’T drive a car, public transit is MUCH easier with a nurser on board! not to mention, blah, blah, blah soapbox. hugs this too shall pass!
p.s. need email addy to send a link, cheeky but appropriate, lol!
I’m glad I’m not alone on this one. Mothers would have come up with a much better design since we would have taken emotions into consideration.
Hello Anastasia,
My email addy is mama @ mama-is.com without the spaces of course..
xox,
Heather
When my older one was a baby I got good at driving while my right arm was twisted behind me and my pinky in his mouth! Fortunately I got my younger one to take a pacifier in the car so we could travel a little longer between stops. (Before that it was drive a few minutes with him crying, stop and nurse, put him back in his seat, drive a few minutes with him crying, stop and nurse, put him back…)
My dd screamed her head off in the car, there was no one to sit beside her and she wouldn’t take the pacifier. I was going stir crazy in the house and HAD to get out–things were not good until…White Noise! Put the radio between 2 stations, and turn it up LOUD. The cries calmed almost instantly, she was asleep in minutes. I just slowly turned it down and was eventually able to change the stations to real music.
Yes. I totally agree. There has to be a better way. It just breaks my heart when my baby is crying and I can’t do anything to help. No wonder I’m a bit of a homebody in the first year…
i hear you… oh, how i hear you…
I did those 5-min-drive/10 min nurse – thing with ALL my three kids. They hated the car until they were at least 4 months.
Here in Sweden most kids are in backwards facing seats until they are 3 or 4 years – it’s so much safer. But if you want to have your kid in the front seat, go to a certified shop and have them REMOVE the air bag. Don’t trust that key thing.
P.s the next generation of mums will have developed longer right arms, for sooooo many reasons.