Comments on: Last big hurrah; midwife appt.; and my scary “duh” moment

By: Overwhelmed moms confess | Crunchy Domestic Goddess

Overwhelmed moms confess | Crunchy Domestic Goddess — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:43:12 +0000

[...] on Oprah admitted, I’ve made my mistakes too. I’ve forgotten on a couple of occasions to buckle my daughter into her carseat. In my case and in Slaby’s case, it was a break in routine that brought about the mistake. In [...]

By: BlueGoddess

BlueGoddess — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:43:00 +0000

I had a similar situation once. I wasn’t pregnant. But we buckled him into the seat. But the seat wasn’t attached to the car very well. ( we didn’t know that till later). So we are driving along and our son is crying. We can’t figure out why. His whole seat had turned over. We had gone about 2 miles away from the house. Thank god that we had a safe place to pull over immediately and fix his seat. It totally freaked me out.

By: amygeekgrl

amygeekgrl — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 03:50:00 +0000

Suzy – Yes, it definitely goes by faster the 2nd time around. I hope everything is going well w/ your pregnancy too. :)

Amy – Yikes! I can’t believe they don’t have carseats or seatbelts. That *is* scary. Do they have a lot of injuries, etc., from car accidents?

Estimated due date is Nov. 16 – one week from today! :)

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:26:00 +0000

Yikes about the babyseat! At least you didn’t go very far before you realised what happened. In Thailand they don’t have car seat laws and I had to carry my baby on my lap since we took taxis everywhere and I *HATED* that I had to do that. With the crazy way the taxi drivers manoever their cars and no car seat or seat belts for passengers, I never felt good about travelling with Aidan so we didn’t go out much. I’m so happy to be back in America!

Due date is approaching. I know you must have said this before, but what is your predicted due date? It will be interesting to see when baby boy actually arrives. Aidan came into the world 4 days earlier than predicted.

By: suzysunshine

suzysunshine — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:53:00 +0000

Wow, I can’t believe you are 39 wks already!!

Believe me I understand your fear. Amelia fell down the stairs because my husband and I forgot to close the gate. :( I felt like such a horrible mom and luckily everything turned out okay except a slight bump on her forehead.

By: amygeekgrl

amygeekgrl — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:45:00 +0000

On one hand, I’m glad that I’m not the only one this has happened to, but on the other hand it’s scary to think that other mommies do it as well. Just goes to show we are all only human.

Marla – I like your idea of one “free one.” :)

Heather – The stethescope has cover type things on the ear pieces so they can only go in so far. I don’t think there’s a way to cram them in deeper and hurt the child. Ava loves playing with her’s and calls it her “heartbeep.” She wanted to take it to bed the other night. Silly girl.
Anyway, we got ours at Walgreen’s (for about $10) by the pharmacy. It was hard to find though and two people had to help me see it on the shelf cuz it blended in with everything else.