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Quick baby question - We got the Graco junior baby car seat with our travel system so I bought the Graco car seat base so we could just click in and click out, rather than faffing with the seat belt. Just tried it in my ford focus (05-11) and it doesn't fit?!!
Does the focus have a particularly deep foot well? It doesn't feel like it does but the foot doesn't extend far enough to make it stable.
Grrrr, not sure what to do.
Does the focus have a particularly deep foot well? It doesn't feel like it does but the foot doesn't extend far enough to make it stable.
Grrrr, not sure what to do.
anonymous said:
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Well hopefully you bought it from Mothercare as their usp is the level of staff training and willingness to be hands on in helping you fit things in your vehicle. Just pop down and they'll take a look.Best bit of advice I had with this stuff is to buy the best/safest car seat you can and then buy the the pram to fit around the seat purchase. We were initial seduced buy the offers of free car seats with certain prams but I quickly saw the merits of buying a car seat from a dedicated car seat manufacturer e.g. Britax, Maxicosy etc
pro tip: Ask staff what 'they' use. Mothercare staff are not allowed to promote one brand over another, so if you ask which is best you'll get a load of waffle about your 'needs' etc. Just straight out ask them what they use for their kids and suddenly you get a more direct response.
harry010 said:
enjoy the quiet - I'm trying to comfort a 3 week old with a snotty nose who's taking about an hour each time to feed and won't co-operate at all with anything 
Sounds awful. Poor little guy. Our little one is just over 3 weeks now, and is a pleasure. He is downing 5oz bottles already, and put on 9oz in 5 days last week, double the average so we are told!
With regards to sleep, he is waking around half 2 and half 6 most nights for feed which I believe to be pretty standard.
We have had a few episodes of explosive poo, wee on his face and sick down the front of him but you just don't care, you just seem to get on with it. Same if he wakes early in the morning and won't settle, I just take him downstairs and end up looking at him for hours and hours. We even had a smile yesterday. Managed 3 trips out on my own already too
Wouldn't change him for the world. Here he is listening to Audioslave.
Edited by S10GTA on Tuesday 29th January 17:18
CommanderJameson said:
BlackVanDyke said:
I think this is the right time for me to join this club - but unlike others I don't have a due date - I'm adopting. Little one will probably be home by July or August is as much as I know at the moment.
Spectacular news!You'll make a brilliant mum. Dad.
Mumdad.
Mad.
Oh.
>flees<
Humorous gender/butch stuff notwithstanding, I am starting to get my head round the idea that as a single parent I'll need to be mum and dad - there isn't going to be someone else to share the load with. The little lad I'm applying to adopt seems to be a fairly straightforward sort of chap so hopefully we'll have a peaceful few months to settle down and get to know each other properly before the terrible 2s kick in (if they do) - he's 15 months old now, so will be more like 20 months by the time everything's sorted bureaucracy wise.
Diane - thankyou very very much. He's a few months older than your Charlie and has a few things in common - not DS but congenital condition and likely severe learning disability - would you be OK if I picked your brain about baby developmental stuff in a month or 2?
SSC - thankyou! You're right, I am already and we're still right at the start of all the paperworky bit - it's driving me mildly bananas 'cos I know he's there already, in a seriously non-ideal foster placement, and every single day that goes past is a day that some bit in my brain thinks that something's terribly wrong because he's not here and he should be. Got a few logistical bits to sort out here - need to find out what sort of cot will work best and so on - but tbh if they told me he was arriving on Monday it'd all be sorted by tomorrow bedtime. June feels like a hell of a long time away!
Harry, thank you, too. I've just had a bit of a 'moment' because your baby boy is wearing the same babygro as 'my' little lad is in the only photographs I have of him (a set of 4 all taken in one morning).
Currently having to restrain myself from deeply unwise decisions involving buying lots of gorgeous baby clothes...
Update from me is that Hugo arrived on Monday evening around 10pm, after we arrived at the hospital at 8am on Saturday and being called into the delivery suite at 11.45pm on Sunday. My wife was exhausted and in the end delivery was by c section. I was more nervous than she was but huge relief when finally over and back on the ward. I'm hoping they will be sent home today so we can start our new family life together :-)
Exciting times!
Sleep now or forever hold your peace - I got all of an hour last night, after a full day up and now can't sleep.
It's great though - Sebasiten is really starting to hold his head up, he's smiling and when he looks at us with his big blue eyes all the tiredness melts away even if sometimes the crying induced headache doesn't.
Sleep now or forever hold your peace - I got all of an hour last night, after a full day up and now can't sleep.
It's great though - Sebasiten is really starting to hold his head up, he's smiling and when he looks at us with his big blue eyes all the tiredness melts away even if sometimes the crying induced headache doesn't.
bigfoot7 said:
Update from me is that Hugo arrived on Monday evening around 10pm, after we arrived at the hospital at 8am on Saturday and being called into the delivery suite at 11.45pm on Sunday. My wife was exhausted and in the end delivery was by c section. I was more nervous than she was but huge relief when finally over and back on the ward. I'm hoping they will be sent home today so we can start our new family life together :-)
Congrats!Pretty excited now, two weeks to go!
Found out this afternoon that the adoption's fallen through: another family came forward who had already been approved as potential adopters (for a different child) - because I'm not approved yet, baby A would have been waiting in foster care for an extra 5 or 6 months for me as opposed to just weeks for them, so the social workers are duty bound to do whatever gets him to a permanent, suitable placement quickest.
So that's that.
I will 'try again', so to speak - already been encouraged to by various people - but I think I need to do a bit of contemplation of what could have been, first.
So that's that.
I will 'try again', so to speak - already been encouraged to by various people - but I think I need to do a bit of contemplation of what could have been, first.
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