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Safe Handling Tips for Your Baby

by steve on December 4th, 2006

I know when I first became a proud dad I had some issues when it came to handling the baby. It seemed odd to pick up a baby and handle it (him/her). Prior to having kids myself I never really had a lot of opportunities to hold babies.

I haven’t read this book personally, but I have heard it is helpful for new parents. It is called Safe Baby Handling Tips.

Might be worth a read. Here is a story about how paranoid I was when we had our first child. It was a day after we had our oldest daughter we drove to the airport in Columbus, Ohio to pick up my mother inlaw. She was supposed to come out and help prior to the birth and stay with us for a couple weeks while we got settled in with the new baby and routine.

Well, my wife went 2 weeks early and her mother missed the birth so she flew in the next day. Well, we had to get the baby ready and buckle her in the nice “new” baby seat we had gotten. Of course, I was so nervous to drive because the baby just looked so fragile. I kept checking to make sure she was buckled in because any unnecessary jossling and jiggling of the baby was going to bother me.

I hit the Interstate and headed for the airport. Each little bump I slowed down and cars were rushing by me in the left lane. I was only doing 45 mph and I couldn’t bear to go any faster. My wife only rolled her eyes but I was so nervous that the baby might get hurt. Talk about insecure eh?

Anyway, we safely arrive at the airport and I go to unbuckle the baby and I realized right then and there that I had forgotten to buckle the baby seat into the car. I just about died. I had the baby buckled into the car seat but the car seat just sat there.

I let me wife drive on the way home!

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