Strap Your Baby In the Car Safely With Michelle!
Mommy Labor Nurse
Liesel Teen
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we dive into all things car seats!
Here are the questions we go over!
- Can you review the basics of buckling in a newborn?
- Talk to me about the “pinch test”.
- What about my baby’s head and how it hangs? I’m concerned he can’t breathe!
- How do I buckle my baby in with a coat? What if he is cold?
- What about sleeping babies in car seats? How long is that ok?
- Rear-facing vs. front facing - what are the biggest safety concerns? When is it safe to switch my child to front-facing?
- I’m concerned my baby’s legs are bent too much and he is uncomfortable rear-facing?
- Where should I go or who should I contact if I need help installing my car seat and/or making sure my baby is buckled in?
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Mommy Labor Nurse Podcast, episode number 7. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey guys, so today we are going to be talking about some car seat safety with Miss Michelle from |
| 0:11.0 | Safe in the Seat. I met Michelle not too long ago. I haven't known her like a |
| 0:15.9 | million years, but not too long ago on social media. We cross paths and I just love her page and she's just I just love her she's so down to earth and not like in your face I think sometimes car seat safety and like car seat text in general sometimes can get a bad rap because they're like preachy and you can agree or disagree with me on that but I just really like Michelle because she's not preachy at all. |
| 0:42.8 | She's just like, hey, this is the information, |
| 0:46.7 | you know, take it for what it's worth. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm not gonna like blow it in your face though. |
| 0:51.2 | So funny story about this episode, we go over a lot of really, really good |
| 0:56.0 | information in this episode and answer a lot of really great questions for you guys. But when I was |
| 1:02.0 | talking to Michelle in this episode I was talking about how Walter for you know, |
| 1:05.0 | was going to Michelle in this episode I was talking about how Walter was still rear-facing |
| 1:06.5 | and how you know I was going to try and keep him rear-facing as long as possible and he's still rear-facing in my car but side note this is like a little |
| 1:17.5 | story personal story I got into my husband's car a few days ago. |
| 1:23.3 | It was this week and I noticed that the seat was turned red, |
| 1:27.8 | like it was front facing and I was like, |
| 1:29.9 | what the heck? |
| 1:31.6 | I was like, uh, did you do this? |
| 1:34.3 | Like, did you turn this around without talking to me? |
| 1:36.5 | I like started to go all crazy. |
| 1:38.8 | And he was like, yeah, like I was traveling for work and then I put it back in my car and I read on the website that it looked like he was the recommended weight and the recommended height. |
| 1:49.0 | So I figured, hey, like why don't we switch him around? It's time and I was like, why didn't you talk to me like I wanted to keep her rear-facing for as long as possible and why would you just go and do that without talking to me blah and he was just like oh I didn't do anything wrong I didn't realize so |
| 2:06.3 | Walter's fine he's he's fine he now front faces in my husband's car because hey once you start front facing a kid if you |
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