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Julieboo

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 01:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It depends on your city or village, but you can bring your car and carseat to the fire department or police department and they will check it for you, free of charge. Where I live, it is done at the fire department.

Twiggyish

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 01:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LL, that's very true!

Hey, has Danzdol had her baby yet? It's getting really close, I think!

Julieboo

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 01:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Danzdol had 7 weeks to go on April 11th, so she still has more than 5 weeks left....

Twiggyish

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 01:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, I was thinking end of April.

Julieboo

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 01:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
bet she wishes her due date was the end of April!

Bookworm

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 03:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Julie! Best wishes to you too Bananaclip!!

Grooch

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 05:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
One other thing that I have been meaning to mention.

One very important thing to do is to check your furniture and bolt it to the wall if necessary. Esp. whatever you have the tv set sitting on.

They just had another horrible story in the paper last week where a 2 year old child ran up to the tv set (he got excited by whatever was on) and he smacked it. The table it was on was not sturdy enough and it fell off and killed him.

Kids will also pull out chest drawers to climb and will climb bookcases, etc. These things should be bolted into the wall if there is any chance they will topple over.

I remember a story a few years back when the parents weren't paying attention in a Sear's store and their kid started climbing on the display furniture. It toppled over and killed him.

Better to be safe than sorry.

Moondance

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 05:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Include appliances in the kitchen too... stove etc..

Grooch

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 05:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
And another thing.

When my sister first had her baby, the apt she lived in had a stove where the controls where on the front and low. When her daughter started walking, she would go and turn the knobs and would be turning on the stove.

My sister ended up taking all the knobs off so it couldn't be turned on, until she found some special locking devices. The things you never think about.

And use the back burners so the kids can't grab the pots and pull them off.

Grooch

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 05:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Moon, you beat me to it. ;)

Moondance

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 05:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
:)

I saw, I think Oprah where the kids would climb in the stove or/and on top of the oven door and topple it on top of themselves.

Urgrace

Monday, April 22, 2002 - 09:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My grandson is 20 months old and is already tall enough to reach the burners on the stove. If possible, don't even use the front burners to prevent burns to baby fingers.

Another thing to keep out of reach is cola or beer cans. They love to poke their little fingers in the drink hole which is very sharp.

Bananaclip

Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 10:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Bookworm!

Does anyone know what I can do about the beginnings of ugly stretch marks!!?? I use cocoa butter lotion, doesn't work. Udder Cream from Trader Joe's store is supposed to work but there are none of those in Texas.

Whowhere

Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 12:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
http://www.uddercream.com/ and http://www.bagbalm.com/

On the uddercream website it lists places you can buy it (availability link on left).....like Ace Hardware (whodathunkit?)

I used bag balm (basically the same as udder cream) and it worked wonders. Don't forget your boobs! (I did, and that's the only place I have stretchmarks.)

Good luck!!

Enbwife

Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 01:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Banana – are you getting stretch marks now? I haven’t yet. At the beginning I used The Body Shop’s Cocoa Butter stick, which is expensive and doesn’t last long. Now I use Aveeno cream with oatmeal. So far so good. I rub it on everywhere – including boobs. They’ve grown soooo much it’s scarey! I’m actually surprised there’s no ugly marks to date. Pregnancy is a very strange thing… who would have thought your body would do all these strange things?

We actually own a tin of Bag Balm, but it has a horrible odour to it... I dunno about putting that all over my body. :)

Bananaclip

Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 10:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ugh, don't rub it in Enbwife. I'm jealous!

Yeah I have the faint beginnings of some, yuck. It's hard enough to see them let alone admit it. A few people have told me theirs have gone away after the pregnancy but not everyone is that lucky.

Thanks for the link Whowhere. If it comes down to it I will live, haha. Thank God for clothes!

Bananaclip

Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 10:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whowhere, does it get rid of the new ones or just prevent any more from coming?

Julieboo

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 07:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I may have mentioned this earlier in this thread. The videos from the Baby Einstein company are great. And I cannot recommend these videos enough. That company actually just got bought by Disney,so who knows if the future ones will be as good (tho the original people are consultants). Anyways, here is a list of the ones they have already:
Baby Einstein (my least favorite and the first one they made. it uses mostly black & white and some red)
Baby Mozart (if you only get one, get this one! My son is nearly 3 and it still works like a charm! I call it my Baby Valium!)
Baby Bach
Baby Van Gogh (does colors)
Baby Shakespeare
Baby Santa
Baby Dolittle (world animals)
Baby Dolittle (neighborhood animals)
Baby Newton (does shapes)

They sell most of these at Target. Babies R Us and bookstores like Borders also have them and so do specialty baby stores such as The Right Start.

These videos are good for babies and toddlers of all ages. They really are soothing and/or educational.

Abbynormal

Wednesday, April 24, 2002 - 08:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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isn't this sweet?

Enbwife

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 12:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It is... It reminds me of me every morning. :)

Whowhere

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 12:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It's to prevent them from coming. I'm not sure what to do about the ones that are already there.

I don't recall any odor in the bag balm, but maybe they make it different now. Don't know. I was extremely sensitive to smells too.

Dahli

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 02:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember thinking no stretch marks either until one day getting out of the tub - YIKES there they were! underneath!!!! I had not been able to see the bottom of my belly and thought since the top and sides were okay there were none....I was wrong :-((

Jewels

Thursday, April 25, 2002 - 05:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I did the same thing Dahli...didn't think I had any until it was to late! I was amazed!

Enbwife

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 01:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Huh? Maybe I should take a closer look (LOL)... I never thought of checking underneath the belly, and you're right Dahli... I can't see under my belly anymore. I'll keep you posted and I'll take another whif of the bag balm too. :)

Julieboo

Tuesday, April 30, 2002 - 01:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The weird thing about Abbynormal's graphic is that the lady looks like her head is attached to the mirror with some type of brown hose. (kinda like an old fashioned hair dryer.) Other than that, it is very sweet.