Today DS had a doctor's appt. He fell asleep at the very end in my arms so I put him in his carseat unfastened and planned to buckle him in once he was more asleep when we got to the car. We got home and he continued to sleep in his carseat for another hour. When he finally woke up, I realized I NEVER BUCKLED HIM IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so horrified! The ride from the doc to my house is 10 minutes....
Has anyone ever done something stupid like this?! (PS, my son is 2 months old only!)
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@winniebee: Here's the real question. Did you tell your DH!?!?!
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
@mrbee: Haha NO!!!!!!! Secret is safe here, right? I did tell my mother. She laughed and said if it was the worst thing I ever did to DS, he is lucky ; )
bananas / 9118 posts
Pretty close- I have left it very loose and forgot to tighten the harness before leaving when my son was about 2 months. It only took doing it once for me to remember to check every time I put him in the car. My routine now is to put him in the car, give him a kiss on the head and check his harness.
blogger / wonderful cherry / 21616 posts
I did that with my nanny daughter!!! Ugh I was sick to my stomach when I realized. I had buckled her into her carseat, only her carseat wasn't fastened into the car! I was mortified with myself. Because it happened before DS was born I am paranoid about it so I always always double check now
nectarine / 2039 posts
@winniebee: Nico is 3 months old today and I have done it TWICE.
1st time: We were going out for dinner, so I BF him in the car before we went into the restaurant, put him back in the carseat, and carried the carseat in. He had a blanket tucked on him and he fell asleep for the entire dinner (this was at 4 weeks old). After dinner, we clicked his seat back into the car and drove ON THE HIGHWAY, 2 HOURS to get home before discovering our error.
2nd time was yesterday:
I was packing for us to visit a friend and I almost drove away with the baby seat just sitting on the back seat bench (not in the base!). I clicked the seat into the base and thought I averted the crisis, only to discover when we got to the friend's house that I hadn't put the buckles on.
Maybe everyone does it once, but twice?
persimmon / 1135 posts
On one of our first outings when LO was about a week old I totally never strapped the carseat in. In my defense, it wedges pretty tightly between the back of the front seat and the back seat, so it didn't even wiggle, but I was HORRIFIED! Needless to say, I've been paranoid about it ever since.
pomelo / 5178 posts
We forgot to buckle DD into her carseat one time and only realized when she when tried to crawl into the front seat with us! Almost gave me a heart attack!
pineapple / 12526 posts
I did this when C was about a month old. I think every mom I know has admitted to doing it at least once. You are so not alone. lol
hostess / wonderful watermelon / 39513 posts
I did this once and I felt so bad! You are not alone!
hostess / wonderful grape / 20803 posts
LOL ok I feel a little better now! I'm still not telling DH! :-0
grapefruit / 4823 posts
DS is only 11 weeks old and its happened twice now! i did it once when he was about 3 1/2 weeks old!! and DH did it about 2 weeks ago.
blogger / pineapple / 12381 posts
Last summer we took a long trip down south to Virginia. Last leg of the trip was a 1.5 hour drive through a torrential flooding downpour. We diligently buckled Lala into her seat but forgot to buckle the seat into the car (we didn't have the base). So she took Mr. Toad's Wild Ride in the worst possible conditions in an area unknown to us, through thunder and lightning and flooding-- unbuckled in the car.
We were lucky that nothing happened!
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