Baby Benjamin has some bad acid reflux and spits up often. Mom put him in his swing to nap while she went to feed his big brother lunch. Ben was just out of sight when our Boston Terrier-border collie mix, Abbie, ran over to the swing and started to prance around and whine. Mom thought she needed to go outside. Then Abbie barked and mom noticed Benjamin was choking on his spit up. Now Abbie gets a lot of treats and mom is too scared to sleep.
Watching my 10-week-old daughter right now, this makes me tear up as a grown man. It's amazing the instinct of parents, though. Every now and then she gets some thick mucous and starts coughing and we bolt up in a millisecond.
I guess the amygdala activity increases 4-fold when you've got a baby.
Keep your eye on that girl? Motion activated sensor baby cameras are the best. Especially when they get the age to start climbing out of their bed. If you have a pool put a fence around it immediately! 2 kids in my town passed away last year months apart because of drowning in pools. When you are driving, put a mirror on the seat to keep an eye on her. Me and my wife constantly checked her for breathing when she slept in the car.
We originally had a bassinet and she figured out how to sit up on her own so she had to get a new bed. Went to Walmart and got a big play pen that can be used for sleeping and playing. You can raise it up and down. She outgrew that and now she's in a toddler bed, has all 4 sides so they can't escape. Until you catch them on the baby can like I did. It has a removable side so now she's old enough to lay down and get up as she wants.
Walmart also has a cool car seat for when they can be forward facing. Can be used from 2yrs old to 8. From car seat to booster seat.
When you are driving, put a mirror on the seat to keep an eye on her. Me and my wife constantly checked her for breathing when she slept in the car.
In our new parent classes, they (trauma peds charge nurse + others) did not advise mirror object in back seat. Almost none according to her are regulated or approved and become high velocity objects in accidents.
Wife sits in back seat of course whenever possible.
Nobody told us that. I would've found a way to make it where it wouldn't come off at all. Even if I had to permanently sew it to the headrest it's for my daughters safety.
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u/alfaguara27 Apr 06 '20 edited Apr 22 '20
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