It’s been exactly a year today since the American Academy of Pediatrics updated their car seat recommendations to include rear-facing children until at least two, or until they outgrew their seat, and for older kids to stay in boosters until they were 8-12 years old and 4’9″. These simple recommendations, as we know, can and [...]
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I’ve written a ton about car seat safety. Many people do. This device is the only device you absolutely have to buy for a baby or your child can die. You can rig random things to function as child-proofing at home or pick up things from a garage sale, but when it comes to your [...]
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Most often, your cheap car seat will be manufactured by Dorel Juvenile Group. Dorel creates Maxi-Cosi, Costco, Safety 1st and Eddie Bauer car seats. And I wouldn’t trust a single one with my child’s life, and here’s why…
“…the federal standard for car seats is so narrowly defined that seats passing the toughest of the tests–simulating a front-end collision at 30 miles per hour–can have serious problems at just a few miles an hour more and yet still meet the standard. We had seats where, if you turned [the test sled] up 5 miles an hour, the seat would disintegrate.”
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Sometimes when I’m out and about, I see car seat usage that makes me cringe. Okay, often. Most of the time in fact. Sometimes I’ll take the time (and the risk) and approach someone about the car seat, but other times I’m in a hurry, just see the car in the parking lot without folks [...]
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In case you missed it, I talked in Part 1 about buying a carseat. Now that you have a seat and have it installed, we’re going to talk about how to put your baby in it. Rule #1: Shoulder straps have to be in specific slots/positions. Rear-facing babies should have the top of the harness [...]
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(AKA Baby Boot Camp That Actually Teaches Something… *gigglesnort* Sorry, inside joke.) There are a million things to learn about babies and only nine months for a lot of women to cram for the biggest test of their lives – the care of a new human life. So, I decided to write some basic guides. [...]
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So I got cocky. Aurora, my seven month old, hasn’t had a poop blowout in… well… since I stopped using disposable diapers when she was three months old. I used a disposable insert in her gDiaper today, forgetting that they don’t absorb breastfed poop very well and she hadn’t pooped yet this morning. When I’d [...]
