tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258140522011-04-21T14:27:56.762-07:00Need Some Help Choosing a Infant Car Seat or Child Car Seat?Lyle Douglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15848260666262905123noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25814052.post-1153806143556047062006-07-24T22:41:00.000-07:002006-07-24T22:56:05.180-07:00

Remember those hot summer days when you climbed into your car after it had been sitting in the sun for hours? Remember when you wore shorts and how it felt on your bare legs sitting on leather or vinyl car seats? The pain!Keep that in mind this summer when you put your baby into her infant car seat or when you put your toddler into his child car seat, especially when they have bare legs or are

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"Here, use our old car seat. We don't need it anymore." If you are expecting and you haven't heard this by now you probably will soon. Should you use that old child safety seat?When we were expecting our first baby a friend from work gave us their old child car seat. By this time the child safety seat mantra had firmly established itself in my head -- don't get a used child safety seat, buy

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"They were great except the rear seats looked worn out." That's what a friend was telling me this past weekend. We were trying to relax in the shade of our patio while the kids played with the sprinklers on the lawn.He was telling me about his experience shopping for a car. He said he was looking for a nice clean used import. But, he didn't want it to look used, especially the interior. (who does

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Yet another study has shown that young children stand a better chance of surviving a bad car crash if they are in a child safety seat.Last week researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia published a study in The Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. They studied government data from 1998-2003 for almost 9000 children ages 2-6 who were involved in serious motor vehicle

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Ease your anxiety level as well.Give your baby safe toys to play with while riding in his or her car seat. Do not give them any toys with pointed or unprotected narrow ends or corners that could jab their eye if they are bounced when your car hits a bump or starts and stops suddenly. For example books with sharpish cover corners. Instead, give him or her chewable, soft books.Most quality infant

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In 2000, when we had our first baby we had to make a decision about where to place the infant car seat in our car. Obviously, it was on the back seat. The question was where? In the middle or the side? If on the side then which side? Behind the driver seat or behind the passenger seat?What made the decision even more difficult for me was the lack of an attachment point on the rear window deck to

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Today I read at the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) that the number one killer of children is highway deaths. They presented some chilling statistics:"Between 1990 and 1999, over 90,000 children under the age of 20 died in motor vehicle crashes.Over 16,500 of those children were under the age of 10 - meaning that 33 children under the age of 10 died every week in motor vehicle

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If you've been waiting for the 2006 models Peg Perego then the wait is over.The new Peg Perego Primo Viaggio for 2006 became available a short while ago.The thing is there's some good news and some not so good news.Good news first: There's been a number of improvements over the earlier years models.First, your baby can stay in the Primo Viaggio infant car seat a bit longer. The car seat has been

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I was chatting with a local retailer of baby stuff about the concerns and questions first time parents have about child safety seats. One of the issues that comes up is "Should we get an infant car seat or a convertible child car seat? "The retailer told me some of the advantages and disadvantages she explained to customers. Then she mentioned one point I found particular interesting. It was

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