The Pattern of Appointments

[lightgreendryad]

I had the real post-partum check-up yesterday, which required finding someone to drive me way down the road and finding a babysitter. Wouldn’t it be easier just to take him with you everywhere you go, you say? Well, consider this: I really don’t want to have to install the carseat into every car I jump into, and I get rides from lots of different

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[lin_chan]

I know it seems completely and ridiculously cumbersome and that there has to be an easier way, but... I'm afraid you're going to have to get used to putting the car seat in different vehicles and taking the baby with you to most places.
I admit it feels completely crippling at first, but after a while, you don't even think much of it.

[lightgreendryad]

No way. I've got my sling and my stroller, and I'll use those whenever I'm walking or using the bus, but I refuse to believe that I have to lug our carseat into everyone's car. It can't be this hard to find a babysitter in every instance; I refuse to believe it.

[lin_chan]

Yeah, I used my sling and my stroller whenever possible too. Sometimes with Bina going for a walk was the only thing that helped her.

[lin_chan]

Also, I admit I went dizzy with the sheer number of people you were able to call and ask.
Before we moved, Oliver and I had two options when we needed a babysitter.
One of them left for college out of state, and the other had over a decade of fertility issues and started joking about kidnapping her.

[lightgreendryad]

We live in a ward with lots of old ladies who are retired and still hip and sociable and lively. And lovable. And able to drive over to my apartment.

And I have lots of relatives who love him--he's the first grandbaby on my parent's side and for Just'In's parents and stepmom, the first great-grandbaby for my dad's parents and for Just'In's grandma, and our first.