Advice needed - baby car seat questions (merged)

Carmina_Piranha_3

i freecycled my car seat.

i don't think anybody would go to the trouble of giving away a seat and lying about its condition if mine had been in an accident i would not have given it away.

this is freecycle, not sales ads. there's nothing in it for the person giving it away so why would they lie?

pamelab21

thanks all
Maybe I made it unclear with the title of my post as I have said buying a car seat and I have been offered them on freecycle. However ithe point really is are they safe to use
Am I better to be safe and maybe buy her a new one?

Wario

Buy a new one. Unless it's being given to you by someone you know very well and can trust that it's not been in the slightest of accidents, I really wouldn't risk it.

Car seats and cot mattresses, two things you just have to buy new.

Welshlassie

Alias_Omega wrote: »

hi all, little one was 5 months yesterday.

well he has a breakfast thing, unsure what it is but i think its heinz baby breakfast where you mix it with milk. Loves to be fed this at breakfast time followed by milk, from there we go with a bottle for dinner then for tea time he can have another meal, these come in jars then followed by some more milk.

He has been eating solids for about 2-3weeks, which we found he would quite happily do, he spends most of the day in the walker we bought him about 2 months ago.

I can show you pictures of him in the walker with a pillow under his feet, he likes to stand up,but now he is taller he can walk around the front room on the laminate flooring, nor right but he is going to be a walker before a crawler.

As too chocolate, well the way we managed to get him onto foods was the random tesco chocolate mouse, or cheap yoghart. Not alot but he was happy to eat it.

Health visitor said not too feed him solids for as long as possible, well you tell this little baby he cant have his food in the morning.

As for a treat, gets a little bit of white easter egg chocolate in his walker tray, and funny enough picks it up too eat it.

Wife says that he was 2 teeth coming though, hence the recent crying.

Pictures to come when im not away with work, but ill ask her to post up.

If your DS has only been eating solids for 2-3 weeks you definately shouldn't be giving him things like chocolate just yet as it can make it very difficult if he has a reaction to anything to work out what it was. Chocolate can cause alleries and reducing the number of allergens you introduce to babies early can keep them healthier in the long run.

If you found the only thing your baby would eat was chocolate mouse then your baby wasn't ready to be weaned. How on earth do you expect a baby to eat things like vegtables when you will give them sweets if they don't eat anything else. I really think you are storing up trouble for yourselves when baby is older.

I'm also concerned that you say you leave him in the walker for most of the day, babies legs are not designed to support their weight all day, they are not strong enough and you can cause damage to they legs if this is done for too long, just because they can walk around the room doesn't mean they should be, especially at that age. They should be sitting or lying playing with toys and learning to move around on their tummies and eventually their hands and knees (crawling).

daphne_descends

Cor you're rather rude. How about taking comments graciously?

katiejones

fac73 wrote: »

Cor you're rather rude. How about taking comments graciously?

Fact is the OP was asking about car seats not about feeding the baby (thats their business)

daphne_descends

katiejones wrote: »

Fact is the OP was asking about car seats not about feeding the baby (thats their business)

The OP mentioned chocolate as a way of showing how grown up his 5 month old is and therefore how he needs a bigger car seat. Perhaps he should have left it out if he didn't want comments on it?

Doesn't excuse the disgusting language though.

maypole

Alias_Omega wrote: »

hi all, little one was 5 months yesterday.

well he has a breakfast thing, unsure what it is but i think its heinz baby breakfast where you mix it with milk. Loves to be fed this at breakfast time followed by milk, from there we go with a bottle for dinner then for tea time he can have another meal, these come in jars then followed by some more milk.

He has been eating solids for about 2-3weeks, which we found he would quite happily do, he spends most of the day in the walker we bought him about 2 months ago.

I can show you pictures of him in the walker with a pillow under his feet, he likes to stand up,but now he is taller he can walk around the front room on the laminate flooring, nor right but he is going to be a walker before a crawler.

As too chocolate, well the way we managed to get him onto foods was the random tesco chocolate mouse, or cheap yoghart. Not alot but he was happy to eat it.

Health visitor said not too feed him solids for as long as possible, well you tell this little baby he cant have his food in the morning.

As for a treat, gets a little bit of white easter egg chocolate in his walker tray, and funny enough picks it up too eat it.

Wife says that he was 2 teeth coming though, hence the recent crying.

Pictures to come when im not away with work, but ill ask her to post up.

But why does he need chocolate for a treat, he doesn't know about sweet things and can't ask for them. I just think you are going to ruin their teeth.

kayleigh_b69

my newphew who is now just over 8 months old has been in a forward facing car seat for about a month now an it was the best thing we could of done for him - he cried everytime we put him in his rear facing car seat.

We took advice from health vistor who had witnessed the upset the old seat caused him (baby is very clever for his age) so health vistor recommended this car seat for him as it provides protection to his head and he can now see where he is going

http://www.littlewoodsdirect.com/rf/lxd/navigation/product.do?Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&SNtt=car+seat&Ns=prod_in_stock%7c1%7c%7cprod_min_base_price%7c1%7c%7cscu_id%7c1&Nao=15&groupId=410648813&Nu=this_product&SNtk=littlewoods_search&Np=1&SN=85+101&Ntt=410648813&D=410648813&Ntk=group_search&Dx=mode%2bmatchall&thisprod=410648813&N=85+101&Nty=1&Mis_item_id=15&Mis_item_loc_id=1&product=410648813

as for the comments on chocolate and feeding every baby is different and ONLY the mother knows baby best

maypole

Welshlassie wrote: »

If your DS has only been eating solids for 2-3 weeks you definately shouldn't be giving him things like chocolate just yet as it can make it very difficult if he has a reaction to anything to work out what it was. Chocolate can cause alleries and reducing the number of allergens you introduce to babies early can keep them healthier in the long run.

If you found the only thing your baby would eat was chocolate mouse then your baby wasn't ready to be weaned. How on earth do you expect a baby to eat things like vegtables when you will give them sweets if they don't eat anything else. I really think you are storing up trouble for yourselves when baby is older.

I'm also concerned that you say you leave him in the walker for most of the day, babies legs are not designed to support their weight all day, they are not strong enough and you can cause damage to they legs if this is done for too long, just because they can walk around the room doesn't mean they should be, especially at that age. They should be sitting or lying playing with toys and learning to move around on their tummies and eventually their hands and knees (crawling).

I agree, babies do not need sweets, it is the parents who start them on this! I know as they get older and see friends with sweets they will want them and you can't deprive them then, but I hate to see children stuffing sweets into themselves and sometimes at the expense of proper food.