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Whether you’re bringing your baby home for the first time or want to show off your bundle of joy to Grandma and Grandpa - it is important to embrace baby care regarding everything your newborn comes in contact with. This includes the family car, as traveling on the road poses one of the biggest threats to the life of your baby.

Not only do automobile accidents take place on a yearly basis, but also these unfortunate incidents have all too many times resulted in the loss of new life. To increase the baby care safety of your little one while traveling in a vehicle, consider the following tips:

Purchasing a Car Seat

Baby care in the car begins with a decent car seat. One of the first things to look out for is a label that clearly signifies that a product meets or exceeds the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. Keep in mind that infants one year or younger (and up to 20 pounds) require a rear-facing car seat.

Research

To ensure the highest level of baby care, keep on top of recent car seat recalls and the latest news regarding child car safety.

Seat Belt Compatibility

Many parents are also unaware that not all car seats are compatible with all seat belts. This is an important factor to look into when purchasing your first cat seat.

Don’t Be Shy to Ask for Help

Sometimes, a new mother or father is a little hazy on all the appropriate baby care techniques. You’d be surprised just how many parents don’t know how to properly install a car seat. However, it is important to remember that a baby’s head is not strong enough to withstand the bumps and shakes of the typical car ride. If you are unsure on how to install your baby’s car seat - never hesitate to ask for assistance. The next door neighbor with three kids or even the local fire department are more than willing to lend a helping hand.

Randy Jodoin is a father of two and has been a stay at home dad for many years. Babycare doesn’t have to be hard work… if your ready.
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For those of you who’ve had the pleasure of a new born baby boy in your arms, you know the excitement of the fun anticipated in days to come. And, I’m not saying that the greatest of pleasures will not be arrived either through the birth of a new baby girl. But, as a father, there is something akin to reliving your own little boy childhood that beats stronger. There is expected excitement at the first baseball that is caught by that baby boy, the first train set that is set up on the living room floor or those first pair of “bobby” skates that allow you to take that first skate on a frozen pond, or a backyard rink so proudly made.

As the years pass, you spend more and more time observing your little boy grow to those teenage years when you become secondary to boy hood friends, and events that call you drive but not to stay. Your little baby boy has become a young adult before your eyes where you often wonder how time has passed so fast.

There are times, though, that your teenage boy seems to revert to that little baby boy with antics that annoy but make you laugh when recalled. Like the day I was working at home unbeknownst to my teenage son. I heard him and a friend enter the house, rummage in the basement, head for the garage, and then onto the street beside our house.

Returning to my work thinking that they were probably out playing road hockey, I was interrupted by the hiss of air, and then a loud bang. Thinking that they had been struck by a car, I ran to my office window that overlooked the street to see them both kneeling beside my stationary air pump. They bent intently over a large plastic pop bottle, filled it with water from the garden hose, then inserted what used to be the end of the hose that attaches to your tire valve into the neck of the bottle, and started to pump air into it.

In only a matter of a few minutes, there was a hiss of air, and the bottle rocketed into the air with a bang. How inventive, I thought. No harm done, and their just out having fun as young boys should. I stood watching for another ten minutes as bottle after bottle rocketed outward to land in a bang some fifteen to twenty feet away. Then, suddenly, they seemed to be finished and appeared to scurry back to the garage. Oh well; time to get back to work.

Later that evening during our supper, I asked my son what they had been doing. His reply was that they had been utilizing some sort of instructions from one of their teachers about some obscure law of physics. It sounded good. After supper, I wanted to go for a bike ride so I went out to the garage to get my bike. Unfortunately, the front tire was down in pressure, so I got my air pump down from the shelf. I attached it to my tire and started to pump but all I heard was a hiss of air. I reattached it to my tire valve and tried again, and all I got was a hiss of air. Guess what? The air pump hose had been shredded right in the middle of the line. Now I know why the boys had quit.

Baby boys never grow up!

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