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chewmylegoff

Percy1983 wrote: »

Been test driving prams, luckily for me I know spending more/less has no relation to my love for my baby (the shame I am looking at buying a £250 pram/pushchair).

On more general terms the amount of products I am seeing which try to cash in on paranoria/fear.

ISOfix car seats, yes they are easier to fit and a low chance of getting it wrong. But then the seat is attached to the car chassis so more force actually goes throught the seat in the event of a crash and can rotate forwards so you then need an extra part to stop that, so thats £400-£500 in total.

Or I can get a decent carseat (£100ish) and me sure my wife and I will never incorrectly fit it and actually have slight better safety rating in front impacts with slight less in side impacts.

Then we can spend £200 on a movement sensor for the cot to which will almost certainly give a couple of false alarms and shorten our lives by a good 5 years, I will say am not going to completely discount this if the wife wants one as it can cure paranoia too (or help).

It just amazes me how much is based on making you feel bad/scared if you don't have a X product and its nothing to do with being short of money for us, just saving it for things which will make my childs life geniunely better.

Wait until the baby appears and see if you are so sceptical about things designed to manage paranoia. I spent most of the first five nights in hospital staring at our babies trying to work out if they were still alive - which is the complete opposite of how I thought I would behave.

Car seats - this was the area that confused me the most when we were buying stuff as I simply couldn't work out what the law was. There is a newish EU regulation which requires them to face backwards until 15 months old and to be in car seats until they are 11 or a certain height. However this seems to run alongside the previous legislation which had different requirements which made absolutely no sense whatsoever to me.

In the end my confusion was solved when we got given 2 maxi cosi pearls (the old ones compliant with the older rules) by friends which fit on our ludicrous waste of money travel system so I just bought isofix bases for them to go on. They seem pretty good so far - very easy to get them in and out and onto the pushchair chassis so happy with them. Will have more decisions to make when they get older as they will only fit in these seats until they are a year old and these isofix bases won't take the new seats which are backwards facing for longer so will probably need a whole new setup.

We took the babies to the registry office today and so they now have birth certificates and officially have my surname rather than OH's. Sofia cried all the way home and Ella vomited on herself to celebrate.

SingleSue

GDB2222 wrote: »

Oh, that's very impressive! Well done you two. Does it help that you are both dieting at the same time?

Yes it does, helps keep both of us on the straight and narrow.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

We took the babies to the registry office today and so they now have birth certificates and officially have my surname rather than OH's. Sofia cried all the way home and Ella vomited on herself to celebrate.

The putting them in the car-seats took a long time to get fast, as I'm terminally cack-handed.

You'll be amazed how often the birth certificates will be needed in the future.

The crying and the vomiting may recur.

Start recruiting babysitters from your NCT group ASAP.

Good to see you posting. Remember to make nighttime boring if they wake up.:p

GDB2222

You don't need to take the kids along to register them, or at least you didn't need to when I last did it. That was 1991, though, so things may have changed.

DW and I took the 1991 out last night for dinner. A bit of what we term 'only child treatment' , which is quite important when you have five.

Generali

GDB2222 wrote: »

You don't need to take the kids along to register them, or at least you didn't need to when I last did it. That was 1991, though, so things may have changed.

DW and I took the 1991 out last night for dinner. A bit of what we term 'only child treatment' , which is quite important when you have five.

Ditto me in 2005 & 2006.

IIRC, both partners were present at the conception.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

You don't need to take the kids along to register them, or at least you didn't need to when I last did it. That was 1991, though, so things may have changed.

In 1990, a representative from the registrar office appeared at the hospital, so DS1 was registered within a couple of days of birth and we didn't need to go anywhere. downside is that his birth certificate is hand written. Didn't happen in 1994, but that could have been because I wasn't in hospital very long.

SingleSue

We took all of ours to their registrations, mainly I think because we were so proud we wanted to show off how gorgeous they were.

Yes, we were quite shallow back then.....:rotfl:

Number one son finally returned last night, he is beyond rake thin and doesn't look at all well. He was treated to nice new bed linen, quilt and a mattress topper to ease his joints.

lostinrates

My father went to register me alone and misspelt a maternal family name. My relaxed attitude towards my name being misspelled started early. My mother's attitude was not relaxed. Nope, not one bit.

hjd

silvercar wrote: »

In 1990, a representative from the registrar office appeared at the hospital, so DS1 was registered within a couple of days of birth and we didn't need to go anywhere. downside is that his birth certificate is hand written. Didn't happen in 1994, but that could have been because I wasn't in hospital very long.

DD was born in 1990 too, on the Wednesday before Easter. Registrar only came in on certain days but not on bank holidays, so didn't come in before we were sent home on the Sunday. We went to the register office the next week. Her birth certificate is hand written - I thought they all were?
DS was born in 2003 and I got home again before a registrar came.
I remember getting home, putting DD in her carrytot down on the kitchen floor and wondering what happened next. There was always someone around in hospital!
A friend of mine just couldn't decide between Paul Nicholas and Nicholas Paul for her son; they turned up at the register office on the very last day to register him and had to flip a coin in the car to decide.

Percy1983

I was registered rather quickly, if they did it too late I would have been a german national!