Car seat installed
I heard back from our local police station (division32 in Toronto, 416-808-3219) and found that they were booking car seat installation verifications a month in advance. So since I am not that organized and didn’t want to wait until after the baby was born I decided to go with a private company. The police told me to call the Canadian Car Seat Installation Centre. I had also heard about this same place through BabyAndMeFitness. They provide “free inspections”, however I suspect that most of their installations are able to find something wrong, but then I have heard that 80-90% of car seats are installed incorrectly. In this case the angle of the car seat back was not at 45 degrees (it was more like 60 degrees: they said the indicator on the seat is not very accurate) so they asked if I wanted them to install it for me. I agreed and I feel better now that it has been installed by someone who does this all the time. Of course, I had to sign a liability form, but that was not surprising.
It cost $35 CDN plus tax for the install.
I also asked about the recent Consumer’s Report about the safety of car seats and they referred me to a Toronto Star article “OPP contradicts Consumer Reports on child seat safety“. Which I found very reassuring. I know I am a worrier and that I don’t always put risk into perspective, but sometimes we don’t have enough data on things and I can blame it on the hormones too right? It reminds me of a Time article on “Why we worry about the wrong things” which looked at the probability and impact of everyday risks. e.g. “Shoppers still look askance at a bag of spinach for fear of E. coli bacteria while filling their carts with fat-sodden French fries and salt-crusted nachos”: Heart disease is still the number one killer.
As of today, Baby is FullTerm
I had a wonderful baby shower on the weekend that my friends threw for me. I was supposed to be a surprise, but multiple people gave it away so I did know it was going to happen, which is good since otherwise I would have done more shopping. Now I am on vacation we can go and pick up the last few things that we will need (cloth diapers, baby carrier, etc…)
As of today I have only 3 weeks left which means that the baby would no longer be considered premature if it was born now. I know that nothing magical happens on these arbitrary dates, but it still feels really good. They say first babies tend to take more than 40 weeks, so why don’t they just change the average number of weeks?
I called about getting the car seat installation verifed at our local police station (division32 in Toronto). It was really hard to find information online, so here you go: call 416-808-3219 to make an appointment, the clinics are usually on Wednesdays.
I guess this blog post is rambling, but then if you are pregnant you understand 🙂
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