I just bought the Evenflo ‘Symphony 65′ All-in-One Car Seat because was the seat with best high settings (tall baby 8 months, 76cm), the seat has really good reviews, but a couple of reviews w/ the same problem. The seat is properly installed.
Can anybody tell me if this reduces his safety?
*when he falls sleep.
What kind of car seat did you use? (not infant seat)

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roundabout, blvd, marathon, etc…i want a britax for sure, but i am so confused as to which one is the safest….i have a very petite little lady that is 4 mos old…so my ?s….anyone know which is the safest of the britax line? do you possibly have a link that explains which and why? is four mos too young for her to be comfortable in a convertible seat? i know they are rated for that weight, i just wonder about if she goes to sleep will her head flop? thanks for all your info in advance….

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I’m looking for a comfortable one that my baby can sleep in it and not too hot that make him wet in the hot weather. I went to many stores and can not decide one, almost them are sold in online. I heard about Britax Marathon but just wonder if it was too upright for baby to sleep in it ( it’s sold online too). Which one would you recommend?
Thanks

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I recently had a baby boy. He is now 2 months old. I have already raised a daughter who is now 15. The mother if my baby has also raised a boy who is now 6 years old. My sister has been helping baby sit some. I have been going round and round with her because she ranted and yelled at me b/c she saw me having him sleep in the car seat with the cozy cover fleece cover on the car seat. My sister didn’t want to go up the stairs when she watched him so she let him sleep in the car seat when she watched him. He got spoiled to the car seat. During the day though, his room is bright, so for darkness, we put the cozy cover on and put the little flap down. There is a space between his face and the flap. Also, there is a gap all the way around the flap, AND I unzipped one side down some for more air. furthermore, we turned a fan on toward the car seat and our home temp is around 70
The baby has slept fine and didn’t get too hot this way several times but she was yelling at me telling me I am suffocating the kid and all this. I told her it is not unsafe and that we would not do anything we considered unsafe. I have been fighting for days with her on this. I finally got him to sleep in the crib. Now my mom is bitching about the way I swaddle him in a blanket and lay him in the crib saying "He can’t move his Arms!!!" WTF! I am so stressed out and sick of the women in my family trying to control everything and stress me out! I told her I was going to post on here and hopefully have proof that it is not unsafe.. to shove in her face cause she is getting on my last nerves!

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Do you quit letting your child use the pacifier?

Do you switch to a toddler bed?
From a toddler bed to a traditional bed?

Do you allow your child a pillow?

Do you quit covering outlets?

Do you quit using baby monitors when they are asleep?

Do you quit using baby gates around stairs?

I’m curious as to what your family has done - or what the experts say.
Thanks!
Do you quit letting your child use the pacifier?
My oldest quit at 18 months - but he was an easy child (and I was pregnant w/brother and didn’t want any confusion over what was a baby item and what wasn’t) - My youngest is 2 and still has it at nap/night, but never any other time. I’d like to break him of it, but it is hard (both boys sleep in the same room - space issue)

Do you switch to a toddler bed?
Oldest @ 2.5 so baby brother could have the crib. Youngest, at around 20 months - was ready…

From a toddler bed to a traditional bed?
When we have the finances/space…

Do you allow your child a pillow?
When they start to sleep in a toddler bed!

Do you quit covering outlets?
We still have ours covered. Our oldest is 4, and still attempts to mess with them occasionally…

Do you quit using baby monitors when they are asleep?
We still use them - hubby is dependent…

Do you quit using baby gates around stairs?
We still use it (ages 4 & 2)…
Thanks to everybody who answered. I wanted to get peoples opinions on when some of these safety measures aren’t needed anymore.

I do strongly agree that the BIGGEST factors in determining whether a particular safety feature is needed or not is family situations and child’s personalities. Because there is no right/wrong answer on this - I am going to have a tough time picking best!

Once again, thank you

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I will be traveling with my fiance and my now 4 month old who will then be 6 months old. Any ideas on what she can sleep in? This will be the ONLY time that we travel until next November so I don’t want to go out and buy a pack and play thats or more for one trip. THere are baby travel beds but those are also too expensive. Any one have any ideas? Would it be weird to put her in like an oversized laundry basket? I know, I know that sounds strange, but it could be made safe… any ideas?

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hi, my wife is not VERY fat, but ABOVE AVERAGE fat, she has a problem of sleeping in a chair with a sitting position, i mean it is not usually, it happens EVERYDAY, she just does a leisure accounting job , and she does not even need to cook everyday,and i do all the other houseworks, but she just begin to sit sleep after dinner regularly everyday. so it is not because of tiresome. is that sitting-sleep just a bad habit or some kind of symptom of possible hidden disease?
Thanks. my wife have no asthma, sleep apnea or something like that. she is just 30 years old. i just guess such a regular sleep sitting up and sleep addiction might be signs of high blood pressure or heart disease when she get old

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I have no experience with any of these except the standard carriers you wear on the front like a reverse backpack, and that isn’t working for this little girl! My daughter is 6 weeks old and only sleeps when she is on my lap and will nurse for very long amounts of time. This has resulted in NOTHING getting done around the house.

I’ve seen people with slings where the baby can nurse and sleep while you "wear" them and I’m interested in trying one but I don’t know where to start! What is good for the way I’m planning on using it? I’m not looking for it to replace my stroller or carrier, just for baby to lay in against my body. How much money can I expect to spend on something decent? Thanks!

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My son is 20 months old. He has a toddler bed, but refuses to sleep in it! We have already tried several things and nothing seems to be working as yet. Does anyone have any tips that worked well for their children? His father and I would really like to break him of wanting to sleep in our bed! LOL We have a queen size bed and our son LOVES to sleep sideways, so it leave very little room for the 2 of us! Thanks in advance for the advice!

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lately ive been having extreamly weird realistic dreams. Lat night i was sleeping in my car which i often do. it took me a while to get to sleep in the first place i was just reading my msgs on my phone.
i had a dream that i was lying in my car and a man was walking down the road towards my car. i hid under the covers and he walked up to the car and taped on my window. i told him to go away or something. he was asian and has brown dreadlocks. he told me he wanted to sleep with me and i said no. i made sure all of the doors were locked and went back to sleep. when i woke i saw him sitting in the front seat of my car. when i woke to see him i didnt know if it was a dream or real. i told him to get out again and for some reason he had my keys so i got them off him and kicked him out. i cant remember bits inbetween but i remember yelling out to my mum and step dad who were inside my house although i was in my car in the drive way. but nothing would come out of my mouth. i was screaming but no one would help. then i suddenly noticed my parents were on the road next to me unpacking shopping or something. i told them the random man wanted to rape me and they kind of just laughed and talked to the guy as if he was their friend but id never met this man ever before. he was only young and quiet nice but he was still trying to rape me. My older brother also came out of his room which he no longer lives in with a whole group of his friends and other people that i rekognise but dont know. i cant remember what happened when they were there. then all of a sudden my vision blurred and change from my eyes to my step fathers eyes. I was looking from his bedroom onto the street where my car was and watching myself get raped from his eyes through blinds.
theyre are some more blank spots and then i recall looking at my phone and seeing that it was only about 7 pm. but i went to bed at about 12 oclock. another girl somehow appeared in my car and then they were lots of people some how dancing in the back of my car with a strobe light. they disapeared and i asked the girl if she had the same time as me. she said yes and that she thought it was weird to because she also thought i was alot later the that. my mum then came out to my car and was winding up the back window of my car. i also asked her whatthe time was and she told me it was around 8 and that i was being silly. There are many other strange things that happened in this dream and many blank spots. i kept sleeping and waking in the dream but waking into that same dream again. it felt so weird but so real. when i actually woke up i was so scared. i found my phone, checked the time. it was 3 am. i ran inside as fast as i could because i truely belived that the man was still there. i told my step dad the whole dream and then sat in my room and watched tv to scared to go back to sleep.
a then fell asleep and had another strage dream that i was surfing and a really stange looking beach with my friend and my brother…i then went back to a tribal looking place and people were trying to poison me with darts. they wanted to cut my head off or something. but this second dream wasnt as graphic and realistic as the first so it didnt scare me as much. i also cant remember it very well. ive had other realistic dreams a few weeks ago when one of my best friends tapped on my window and woke me up, i got out and said hello then went back to sleep. another mate then tapped on my window and i got out and said hello. when i woke up the next morning the first friend said she didnt do it and wasnt there and the other friends said that he actually was there. sooooo….im a bit freaked out at the moment. i never use to have strange dreams but lately i do.
i d really like to know if they mean anything important…..
i just hope im not crazy or anything! haha
cheers…

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my 8 month old is getting too big for the graco infant carseat we have i have noticed that the one i have is smaller then most is there bigger carseats that are infant kind?? she loves to sleep in he car and i like how easy it is to just grab her carseat with her in it and not wake her up so i can shop plus i feel she is safer in infant carseats…she still little but just wondering if there are carseats that are bigger

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I have never had adult night terrors, but a few months ago, I awoke in the car (passenger seat) after a couple hours of sleep. It was as if I awoke into a panic. I had specific thoughts in my head at the time, so I knew what it was I feared, BUT I had no recollection of having had a nightmare. Because I practically felt like I was in a panic, I couldn’t recall a nightmare, and it was during the first couple hours of sleep, I thought maybe I’d had a night terror. Yet, I had not moved or spoken during my sleep, as is common with night terrors, so I wasn’t sure what I’d just experienced.

Awhile later (not that much later), I was going to bed on a different night. I remember laying my head down, but I am not sure if I’d even fallen asleep, yet when I suddenly jerked upright. I felt really scared. The fear was over the same thought as before. It’s not something I was consciously thinking about, either, and I don’t think I’d thought about it during the day. It just suddenly hit me. Although I was really nervous and connected these sudden bouts of fear to going to sleep, I oddly had no worries about going back to sleep once I’d calmed down.

It has only happened 2 or 3 times, but they’ve all been fairly recently. Since I didn’t even think I’d fallen asleep during the second time mentioned above, I figured it couldn’t have been a night terror. I found out online that there is something known as nocturnal (or nighttime) panic attacks that sometimes occur during the first couple hours of sleep, and sometimes they even occur right before someone falls asleep, when they are laying down. I have experienced this panic both during the early hours of sleep, as well as just as I was laying down and getting ready to drift off.

Does anyone have any idea what might be responsible for these sudden nocturnal panic attacks. I didn’t feel any more stressed out when they started than I did during the several months before that. Also, since I am having the same fear everytime it happens………why? I mean, this fear is something I knew I was afraid of, and it’s quite a common fear, BUT I don’t normally have panic attacks over it. In fact, I never have had fear this intense over it. Do you think something has triggered this fear in me lately and made it stronger? Thanks for the ideas.

P.S. What is the difference between the psychology and the mental health sections? I had no idea which one to post this under.
I mentioned the car because I read night terrors are more common in unfamiliar places, and I don’t normally sleep in the car. It’s a familiar spot to me, but not really a familiar spot for me to sleep.

I think I read that night terrors are most commin in the first 2 or 3 hours of sleep, and I also read nocturnal panic attacks were common as one prepared to drift off, up to about 2 hours into sleep. So, it could have been either one, but since I didn’t move or talk during this instances, and because I didn’t even fall asleep during one of them (as far as I know), I assume they are noctrunal panic attacks.

I have had panic attacks before, but never over this issue and NEVER sleep or drowsiness induced panic attacks.

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I am shopping for crib bedding sets and I don’t want to spend a bunch of money on one if they won’t be in the crib for that long. I have a bassinet already and she will be sleeping upstairs in that for a few months till I let her sleep in the crib. So when do I let her sleep in a toddler bed?

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I am shopping for crib bedding sets and I don’t want to spend a bunch of money on one if they won’t be in the crib for that long. I have a bassinet already and she will be sleeping upstairs in that for a few months till I let her sleep in the crib. So when do I let her sleep in a toddler bed?

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My younger sister is in an abusive relationship. We have no family history that would make her believe that it’s normal for a person to treat her this way. We came from a middle class family, both of our parents worked to provide us with a good life. I’m sure they argued, all couples do, but to this day I can’t remember a time when I witnessed one.
She got out of the relationship for about a month and she and their son stayed with me and my family.
My husband and I have four kids so it was a little crowded. We gave her a room, and watched the baby for her to work and even go out with friends.

One night I was babysitting for her to work, she called at about 11pm to say that she was going to a friends and would be home within the hour. I went ahead and went to sleep, the baby was asleep and she has her own set of keys. Well when I woke the next morning about 4am to see my husband off to work, I noticed that the baby’s car seat was gone, so I went to her room and they weren’t their. She called hours later to say they had gone back to her boyfriends house.

I understand that she wants a family of her own, but I don’t understand why she wants to be with him.
He treated her badly before she was pregnant. Verbal, mental, and physical abuse. She thought it would get better when she told him she was pregnant. .He accused her of cheating and the abuse never stopped. (The baby is now 6mo old )
He slapped her so hard once that she fell against the baby crib with the baby in it. He has left her home with a fire burning while he went out that almost caught the house on fire and the fire dept. had to be called out.
She has gone to the police once but then refused to sign the papers.
He has broken her heart with cheating and bruised her body with his slaps and punches.
I am not only worried about her but also about my nephew.
Not only does he abuse her but the home environment and grounds aren’t safe or sanitary for a baby or child.
The house that he lives in isn’t much more that a shack. They had a TV that quit working because of a nest of mice had made it their Home, along with a S*** load of roaches.
He works on cars as a hobby and there are cars and parts, rusted metal , and broken glass covering what should be a yard.
I’m not sure what to do. I’ve tried talking to her, giving her print outs on abuse and effects on children nothing is getting through to her. I don’t want her to end up in the hospital because of him. I also don’t want the baby to end up in the hospital because of some sort of abuse or neglect.
I don’t know what to do anymore.
Just last week she called the police because he tampered with her car by pulling wires so that it wouldn’t crank. She and I stayed up all that night because she was truely afraid of him.
My husband was at work, otherwise this man wouldn’t have even come near my house.
She went and filed a report, but now, not even a week later she is back with him. I know he has some kind of control over her, but I thought she had been away from him long enough to move on.
My mother was in a relationship like that with my biological father, it took her having me to move on. She remarried a wonerfull man that adopted me and they went on and had my brother and then my sister.
My sister has never known this kind of life until this man.

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