Michelle Pratt on Car Seat Sanity, Common Errors & Must-Know Tips
The Mom Room
Renee Reina & Podcast Nation
4.8 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Ep525. Renee sits down with Michelle Pratt, a nationally certified car seat expert and founder of Safe in the Seat, a trusted resource for simple, reliable car seat safety info. Michelle shares her journey from new mom buckling her newborn in for the first ride home to building a thriving platform that bridges the gap between technical know-how and real-life parenting.
It’s a practical AMA with Michelle as she breaks down the biggest mistakes parents make, when it’s time to switch to a booster, and the surprising truth about those car seat accessories that you think you need.
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| 0:00.0 | Is drinking raw milk safe like RFK Jr. suggests? Can you reduce a glucose spike if you eat your food in, quote, unquote, the right order? I'm registered dietitian Abby Sharp. I host a nutrition myth-busting podcast called Bite Back with Abby Sharp. And those are just some of the questions I tackle with qualified experts on my show. |
| 0:21.4 | There is so much food misinformation and disinformation out there, and it can feel impossible |
| 0:27.9 | to know what's real and what's BS. |
| 0:30.7 | On Biteback, my goal is to help listeners create a pleasurable relationship with food, |
| 0:35.3 | their body, and themselves, which in my opinion is the |
| 0:38.6 | fundamental secret to good health. Listen to bite back wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:44.8 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. Michelle, welcome to the mom room. |
| 1:01.1 | Thank you. |
| 1:02.0 | Happy to be here. |
| 1:03.5 | My first question, I'm always curious because I kind of fell into this space during quarantine. |
| 1:09.1 | It just kind of happened. |
| 1:10.7 | And so when I see people that have |
| 1:12.1 | this massive platform and they're so successful, I'm like, I wonder how they got to where they are. |
| 1:18.4 | So safe in the seat is a massive platform. Where did this all come from? How did it start? Like, |
| 1:26.3 | take us through that whole journey. |
| 1:28.9 | Yeah. So I think safe in the seat was born first out of just my own personal need to feel like I |
| 1:36.5 | wasn't completely messing everything up. I felt very alone in motherhood in general, as I know many of us do at first. |
| 1:46.4 | But I did not know how to buckle my son in his car seat. |
| 1:50.9 | And I just was like, this is obvious. |
| 1:54.2 | Like, of course I'll know how to do this. |
| 1:55.5 | How hard can it be? |
| 1:56.3 | Which I think the majority of people think. |
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