Wednesday Funny Meme

[hmr11913]

This is totally me after having had a 4 day weekend. 

[requiressnacks]

hmr11913, that's basically me this week. I am so over working right now. And the weather is ruining my long weekend that I had planned for this weekend. GRRRR.

[kaydee0402]

Nothing exciting here. I caught a serious case of nesting last night while scrubbing the kitchen and breakfast nook floors and proceeded to scrub the baseboards, light switches and doors. I was up until almost midnight doing this. And then I had to seriously stop myself from going int o DS's big boy room and finish painting. If I had a face mask though, it would have been on.

Work and then going to Lowe's to buy a face mask and a few plants for the side garden

[requiressnacks]

motivation like that never happens to me, kaydee0402. Good job!

[hmr11913]

DANG kaydee0402! Will you be planning a trip to WI soon? LOL

[requiressnacks]

So, a friend with twins has offered me her frame stroller and two chicco car seats, for a very minimal price. I am definitely taking the stroller, but how do we feel about used car seats? I know the girl really well, they've never been in an accident and this will save me a lot of $$.

Thoughts?

[kaydee0402]

I take nesting to a whole new level. It's bad. Last pregnancy I stayed up until 2 am one night lining all of the cabinets and drawers in the kitchen. I need help.

[kaydee0402]

requiressnacks, I'm a car seat nazi. The recommendation is to never take used car seats if you don't know their history. I would take a used one from my sister or best friend, but not someone I don't know. If you know her, know for a fact that the seats have never been in so much as a fender bender and that they aren't expired, I think it's okay. Make sure you get any warranty information from her so you can keep up with any possible recalls.

[kaydee0402]

P.S. If you're on Facebook, check out Car Seats for the Littles (there's two, an informative one and one where you can ask questions) and The Car Seat Lady.

www.facebook.com/groups/CarSeatsForTheLittles/
www.facebook.com/CarSeatsForTheLittles/?fref=nf
www.facebook.com/TheCarSeatLady/?fref=ts

[hmr11913]

I agree w/ kaydee0402... you do need to be careful, but it doesn't mean you couldn't totally get a sweet deal on great carseats. Especially when you're in the market for TWO of them and they are pricey to begin with. I say if you know her, and know that they were well taken care of and not in any accidents/expired as kaydee0402 said then I'd totally take them.

[requiressnacks]

Thanks everyone! Her twins are actually still using them, but they've almost outgrown them so she is starting to look for bigger seats. I don't have any concerns about them being in an accident or anything like that. And her kids are just shy of a year old, so they aren't very old.

[littlelion]

Jul 6, 2016 9:36:31 GMT -5 requiressnacks said:

So, a friend with twins has offered me her frame stroller and two chicco car seats, for a very minimal price. I am definitely taking the stroller, but how do we feel about used car seats? I know the girl really well, they've never been in an accident and this will save me a lot of $$.

Thoughts?

What ^ they said. I bought 1 new car seat but took 2 used car seats from my sisters. One for DH's truck and then my sister kept hers since she's my emergency pick up person for DC. Comes in very handy!

[requiressnacks]

Jul 6, 2016 10:21:28 GMT -5 littlelion said:

Jul 6, 2016 9:36:31 GMT -5 requiressnacks said:

So, a friend with twins has offered me her frame stroller and two chicco car seats, for a very minimal price. I am definitely taking the stroller, but how do we feel about used car seats? I know the girl really well, they've never been in an accident and this will save me a lot of $$.

Thoughts?

What ^ they said. I bought 1 new car seat but took 2 used car seats from my sisters. One for DH's truck and then my sister kept hers since she's my emergency pick up person for DC. Comes in very handy!

That's what I was thinking too. Would be great to have a few spares, even if we do decide to still buy two new ones.

[Becca]

@kc295905, that is great! I'm going to send that to some of my other friends who would enjoy it.
requiressnacks, what type of stroller frame are you getting? We keep going back and forth between what we want. If you trust your friend and the seats aren't that old I would be very tempted to take them. It isn't like you were getting them off Craigslist.

[requiressnacks]

Becca, we're getting the Joovy Twin Roo - link

I think we are going to register for a City Mini Double Jogger, or maybe a Maclaren Double. I'm hoping to use the frame stroller until they are ready for the jogger. I'm skipping the tandem, full-featured double. (as of today...this could all change. haha)

[Lucy]

requiressnacks, I'd buy a used car seat if I really trusted the person I was getting it from and it wasn't close to the expiration date. Especially an infant seat since they're used for such a short time compared to convertibles.

We settled on the decision to skip the infant seat all together and go straight for the convertible. I'm excited to not have the size restriction I had when shopping for convertibles with my last 2 babies. We had to squeeze seats into the back seat of a Nissan Sentra. This minivan thing is making me happier every day we have it! I was so anti-van, that I never imagined actually enjoying having one. We took it to my MIL's for the 4th and drove home super late Monday night (we got in around 1:30am). The kids always had a hard time falling asleep in the back seat of my sedan. They were all conked out in no time in the van. It was amazing.

[Becca]

Jul 6, 2016 10:30:10 GMT -5 requiressnacks said:

Becca , we're getting the Joovy Twin Roo - link

I think that is the one we are leaning more towards too. The lady at BRU we talked to have twin nieces and said it was what she recommended. 

[kaydee0402]

The only thing I found my infant seat useful for was our travel system. I took many, many walks with DS after he was born. Since I had a c-section, I couldn't wrap him for a good month because it was too painful. An obviously you can't just plop a newborn into a stroller. So I would just snap the car seat into the stroller and take him on daily walks. But if you aren't getting a travel system and don't plan on taking many walks during the newborn stage, totally skip the infant seat and go for the convertible. We only have one infant seat (the one we used for DS that goes with our travel system) that will go in my car, but for DH's car, we just get the convertible.

[Lucy]

I had no problems putting my newborn DD in the reclined part of our double stroller. It didn't fit an infant seat, so using it like that was no issue.

We rarely ever took our infant seat out of the car. It just stayed parked there all the time. I imagine we'd do that again since we have nowhere to store the seat in our tiny house where it won't be in the way. In our situation, and knowing what we'd done in the past, the infant seat just feels like a waste of money.

[emilie]

requiressnacks I would take them if you trust her, and especially since her kiddos are still using the seats. I know there are a lot of "rules" out there about used car seats, but all this stuff is so expensive. If you know they haven't been in an accident, take them!

@kc295905, that moms group thing made me LOL. living in California that shit is real life here.

[hmr11913]

@kc295905, SUPER funny! That's pretty much how it goes too.... sigh.

For me personally, I could not survive without the infant car seat.... it was very convenient to bring into/out of the house and just snap into the car and go, into doctors appointments/stores/etc without having to carry them all the time. If you just have a convertible, and say you have to stop at the store, would you just carry them?? Not sure how that would work, but possible I'm sure. We got a convertible and also the infant travel system... we were going to use the convertible in DH's truck, however we ended up just moving the base if we took his truck somewhere and kept w/ the infant seat. She just turned 13 months and we switched her about 2 months ago into her convertible as she is 22 lbs and was getting to heavy to cart around in her infant carrier lol. Plus, we have a detached garage and when it's going to be winter out and cold, I wouldn't want to be standing out in the cold trying to snap them into their seat.

Also, at our hospital they require you to have the newborn in a carseat when you walk out of the hospital; I suppose DH could have carried the convertible one in, but that would have looked really silly cause it's pretty big.

[kaydee0402]

hmr11913, oh I forgot about that! Yeah, New Moms, just an FYI, hospitals want you to bring the car seat in so they can make sure the baby is leaving the hospital in a car seat. Convertibles are a major PITA to uninstall and then reinstall (or at least my Graco 4ever is), so I'm not sure how that would work. And obviously, the baby can't be in the car seat while you're installing it, so keep that in mind.

The nurse expected me to hold the infant seat on my lap while I was wheeled out of the hospital. Like I've said a dozen times, I had a c-section and holding a car seat on my lap happened for all of two seconds before I told her, "Yeah, no." DH wound up carrying DS in his infant seat.

[hmr11913]

Jul 6, 2016 14:57:35 GMT -5 kaydee0402 said:

hmr11913 , oh I forgot about that! Yeah, New Moms, just an FYI, hospitals want you to bring the car seat in so they can make sure the baby is leaving the hospital in a car seat. Convertibles are a major PITA to uninstall and then reinstall (or at least my Graco 4ever is), so I'm not sure how that would work. And obviously, the baby can't be in the car seat while you're installing it, so keep that in mind.

The nurse expected me to hold the infant seat on my lap while I was wheeled out of the hospital. Like I've said a dozen times, I had a c-section and holding a car seat on my lap happened for all of two seconds before I told her, "Yeah, no." DH wound up carrying DS in his infant seat.

We also have the 4ever convertible and it hooks into those little hooks smushed waaaay inside your seats.... so annoying and you're right a total PITA to move, especially if you have to tighten/loosen it bc there isn't much give.


Our carseat story is a little funny..... so at the time, we only had the convertible (gift from our moms at our shower) and had planned on buying the travel system prior to baby coming, BUT, she came 5 weeks early so we didn't have one.... so when DH went home to pick up some things while we were in the hospital, he grabbed the convertible seat as that's all we had. He hauled it into the hospital and they told us that we couldn't put her in that, so he went and bought the travel system and THEN we found out that she needed a "car seat study" due to being a preemie (who knew??) where they test their oxygen and it has to be at a certain level for TWICE as long as it would take you to get home. So, we live 45 minutes away and she failed it after about 10 minutes. They made us purchase a lovely $85 dollar, excluded from insurance, "car bed" or we couldn't bring her home .... so, needless to say we had the convertible carseat, the infant car seat/stroller combo AND this new car bed all with us on the way home, plus all our other crap. Yeah, fun!!!!  

Here's our little pee wee in her car bed. 

[kaydee0402]

hmr11913, oh no! I'm glad it's a little funny now, but I can imagine it was super stressful at the time.