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Russell's Journey as our first kid. The myths, traditional practices and old wives tales that we heard. The modern practices and choices in baby care, baby apparel, baby diet , baby learning, baby development and great deals we found. Just sharing what we've experienced and learned.
We have scoured the bookshops and online for guide on raising baby and asked friends. The one book that consistently comes up is this
We just had Russell's routine check and he is at 90th percentile for his height and 70 percentile for his weight. So he is doing pretty ok.
We just moved 3 weeks ago and renovation works are still ongoing due to delay during the Chinese New Year holidays.
Some folks have asked us about car seats so I thought I posted our experience here.
In November 2005, we had been using the rear facing car seat for the past 11 months and Russell seems to be outgrowing it. His legs then could reach the back seat and he was getting easily bored looking through the back window and at the back seat. We could hardly keep him in his seat for more than 10 minutes before he started whining.
We had been searching for forward facing baby car seats for 1 month. I think we must have seen about 50 models and went through 10 different shops and department stores. We had also been through the Internet and Ebay to look at different seats and reviews.
Here's what we found.
The selection criteria we have set are
We narrowed down the brands to Eddie Bauer, Cosco, Mothercare Britax and Maxi Cosi.
Here are the comparisons
www.alvintoh.com/reviews/carseats.htm
We chose Maxi Cosi in the end as it fulfill most the criteria. What won us over was the ease of operation. It's no joke when you have to install and adjust the child seat regularly by yourself especially if you use your car for business and home use. Lina has found it a tremendous pleasure to be able to recline the kid sitting in the back seat from her sitting at the driver seat. Russell has found it so comfortable he tends to fall asleep in it half the time! What bliss...for both of us.