Hello. I have a 15 month old and she has quite a few teeth (about 12) and I’ve been cleaning her teeth with a child safe baby finger toothbrush (that you can get at any Babies R Us) since she began teething. I am now wondering if I should be using something else to kill any bacteria in my little girls mouth? Now that she is eating the same food we do, and like any baby, things go in her mouth after being exposed to many germs (after touching toys, shopping carts, etc…), how do I get her started on the right track for good oral hygenine? We all know that brushing your teeth without anything loosens the bacteria. Toothpaste & mouthwash helps us adults kill the germs in our mouths. What can I use that is safe in my little one’s mouth? Any suggestions???

in a shopping cart…
I’m going to WalMart tonight just to be pushed in a shopping cart… by my best friend… for the heck of it… and yes I’m weird…
WHO SHOULD I TALK TO…
Babies, Children, Teens, Adults, Seniors… oh and Douche Bags…
WHAT SHOULD I TELL THEM:
I defenitly know what to tell the douche bags "Yo Yo Yo… Douche Baggy Bag!!!"
so… what do I tell others…

I’m also somewhat shy… so I’ll probably not talk to adults…
THANK YOU!!!

Hello there!
If I told you that 400 pounds of babies and puppies were in a shopping cart on the train tracks and were going to be hit by a train if you don’t have sex with me, would you have sex with me? This is almost a trick question because most people would have sex even without the possibility of some sort of crisis.

Today I was at the store, and I saw a dad with his two step children. The younger one was in a cart, the older son, was messing around, doing what boys usually do. The dad accidentally hit his step son’s leg with the cart and the kid went "Oww… that hurts!". The dad said, "I’m sorry, I didn’t see you… I told you not to mess around (and nag some more). So suck it up and deal with it!" I just thought he was being mean to the kid, and felt like I should say something, but I know it wasn’t my place. After a while, I guess something else happened and he said, "Jeremy, you better cut it out or I’m gonna kick your ass all the way til we get out the store". I was like, wow, that’s no way to talk to a kid. My husband was there and he didn’t like that either, so it’s not just me being overly sensitive. The kid was probably about 6-7 only.

I think if I’m an older lady, like in my 60s, I’d have the guts to give him a piece of my mind at his parenting skills, but I’m only in my 20s so he’ll probably go, Yeah whatever. Would you have said or done something if you see this, or do you have an experience in this matter?
Daniel, there’s no need for that kind of talk on my question. I’d appreciate it if you can be a bit more courteous to users in YA, and I certainly hope you are teach your kids better than the way you act, because honestly, you are very RUDE.

Anyway, this guy is white, and the kids are AA, so… that’s obvious they’re his step kids.
And rest assured Daniel, I won’t be a bad parent, because I CAN’T have babies. So you don’t have to worry I will be a bad parent who let their kids do whatever they want. And even if I can, the first thing I’d teach them, is good manners.
Warrior, I KNOW when a kid is of mixed parentage. In this case, it was very clear to me that they weren’t. And you’re not answering my question at all, so thumbs down for you.

I don’t think I have ever seen anything like this but, would you buy a fold up grocery cart that seats a child? You would always bring your own cart to go grocery shopping and it would be just like a regular grocery cart with a more comfortable seat for your child but it would be your own from home. Your child and you wouldn’t be exposed to all the germs on the store carts. It would be made of plastic and material that is not heavy but would be durable and easy to open and close.

would you buy something like that or do you think it would be a waste of money and space when you can just wipe down a cart at the store with a disinfecting wipe?

just curious LOL I’m always trying to think of things I could invent.
yea not a good idea I guess, just one of those things that popped in my head LOL

I probably would not have bought one either when my kids were little, my first was twins and I always had to push around two carts when they were babies, would be nice if they invented a grocery cart where two babies can sit in front without being squished (not the ones with the seats for big kids…which actually were not around anyway when my twins were born)

i am about 6 week pregnant.
when i first told my guy about it, he was scared like crazy of course, and so was i.
two days later, he said he was over the initial shock and was now getting even a little excited to have a child, and that was honestly the best feeling i can ever remember having: to know that he wouldn’t back out on me, because i am against abortions, and he said he would help me take responsibility for what happened to us.
then, a couple more days later, he called me to tell me that he’d been really thinking about everything, and how we needed to think rationally about our situation.
i am 19 years old and he is 22. he has a full-time job for an hour, but i do not have a job right now because i am in college. i come from a more "wealthy" family, though, and he doesn’t. i’m not saying that my family is uber rich, because we’re not, but both of my parents are doctors. and it also doesn’t mean that his family is dirt poor, but his dad was a marine and his mom is a cop.
he lives on his own and pays for everything himself on his own income, and everything right now for me is pretty much still paid for by my parents.
anyways, i thought things were going amazingly that night he told me he was excited, but then everything changed that next time when he said we needed to speak rationally.
bottom line is we agreed to get me an abortion because of financial problems. i’m sure that his parents and my parents would help, i know they would, but we agreed that we don’t want to have to depends on them forever. we don’t want our baby to ever go without warm clothes, without toys it will want, without anything that it will need.. so we decided that the abortion would be the best thing, since i couldn’t carry a baby for nine months and then just give it away for adoption.
i was fine with the abortion thing for a few weeks, and it still logically makes sense to me, but now.. it’s just like i see babies everywhere. baby carriers, little 2 year olds, kids in shopping carts at the store, baby sections in stores, baby commercials on tv, and i hear about baby stories all the time. it’s not that i never did before, but now it’s just all standing out to me, like it’s saying that i need to have this baby and take the responsibility that i was fine with taking in the beginning.
my guy still thinks it would be the best to get an abortion, and even though he says this, i know he would still be there for me if i decided not to get an abortion. he would be there, he wouldn’t leave me hanging. but he says that an abortion would be the best thing for all three of us: me, him, and our unborn child.

the thing is, my feelings have started to change again. i was absolutely fine with the idea of getting an abortion at first, even though i was against it, because it made the most sense.. but now, it’s just i think EVERYday, hundreds of times a day about how i am going to feel afterwards. if i got an abortion, i know i would never be the same anymore. i’d pretend to have fun, and maybe i could have fun with friends and my guy like old times, but there would still be that one thing in the back of my mind haunting me forever. i wouldn’t become "unpregnant", he and i would just be the parents of a dead baby. and i don’t know how i could live with myself knowing that i took away a life that hadn’t even been given the chance to be lived. what if my baby has real potential? i don’t want to go through the rest of my life having to explain to possible future husbands about how our babies wouldn’t be my first. i don’t want to see babies in shopping carts at the store and think that could have been me, happy with a little boy or girl. i don’t want to hide something so powerful and hanging over me for the rest of my life, because i know that i would regret it and i’ve looked up so many websites on how other women have gotten over abortions, and they all say that there is major depression, regret, hurt, and that their futures are just not as happy as they could have been.

i was fine with the abortion thing at first, but now i’m not. i just don’t know how to break it to my guy, because he still thinks i’m fine with an abortion. i know he wouldn’t back out on me if i told him i was going to have the child, but i know he’d be disappointed in me for not trying to be strong and think about what might be best for the three of us.

someone please help me because i have no idea what to do.

my daughter is 6 mths today and she knows how to sit well and everything….but can she sit in a shopping cart? …I’m asking this because ive only seen babies that are…bigger sit in there….

it’s so hard for me to go places..and shopping when i have to lug her car seat up and down everywhere….its too heavy!!!! and i have very bad joints (wrists and elbows)…..she’s getting really heavy..and everythings so hard just to go the publix!

I was working as a bag boy at grocery store when a mother came up with her cart and her practically newborn child in the seat and unloaded the food, etc. I started to bag the stuff when she unhinged something on the cart seat and clamped the babies fingers between some metal, causing it to bleed a bit and purple. She scolded the BABY and, annoyed, continued to unload the cart while the baby was SCREAMING. As the baby screamed and shook, tears running down his cheeks, everyone continued with what they were doing, maybe glanced at the baby, then went back to their business.
I immediately became infuriated, and literally threw what ever I was bagging to the side and went to the bathroom. I got really hot and dizzy, and then i vomited in the toilet.

Thankfully, I still have my job.

Point is, is this a normal reaction? Sounds a little over the top, but I don’t know..
Just give me your opinion.

Well about a week ago I had a dream that me and my boyfriend started living together. Then I saw me and him walking on a street pushing a cart with four babies. The cart was made of metal and it looked like a mini shopping cart. I remember the babies getting hurt and one of them was on its side and his head was getting hit by the cart as we walked. I remember getting worried and stopped to pick up the baby and fix him so he doesn’t get hurt. Then we entered a supermarket and I had to go up creaky wooden stairs to get to the entrance door. As I was walking up one of the steps broke and my foot fell inside. My boyfriend grabbed me out and then we walked into the supermarket. It was soo soo bright and there was candy and icecream everywhere. It looked like candyland or something. Then I woke up. How weird is this dream? And what could it mean?

I have a 3.5 year old and am about to have a baby. So I need to buy a car seat! I just don’t know what to get to make things more convenient and/or cheaper with less hassle. For my son I used an infant carrier for the first year, but I remember him getting very heavy to carry in it and eventually we just started taking him out of it instead. What I want to know is, with a 3 year old am I going to be able to handle carrying around a carrier? Will I be able to handle a 3 year old while carrying around a baby? Should I just buy one of those infant to booster seats? (all in one) And skip the carrier altogether? What did you do? How did it work for you? I also have not figured out how I will go grocery shopping with a carrier, if I put the carrier in the seat of the cart, my 3 year old would ride in the basket, then where would I fit groceried? lol. Obviously I am new at this. Tell me what works for you!!!
Correction, most infant carriers have a weight limit of 20 to 25 lbs, I have light babies, this should not ba a problem with me, but I do have a bum shoulder (for carrying it).

It is not recommended to use any harnessed car seats after 6 years.

Most all in one car seats, or at least the one I would get, is not recommended to be used after 6 years, but after removing the back and just using the booster, it is safe for up to 9 years.
I know how to read and have researched the car seats I am talking about. It states on the car seat that though the harnessed portion of the car seat may expire after 6 years. The backless booster can be used for an additional 3 years.
But I do agree that when it comes time to use a backless booster, if at all, I can just go buy one, they are cheap.
My concern is not the weight. My son outgrew his infant seat in height before ever reaching the weight limit. Forcing us to purchase a convertible seat to continue the rear facing position. I assume this child will be similar, certainly not the opposite.

ok i am about to have my 2nd baby, and my daughter will be around 21 months when this one comes. we usually walk her around the grocery store if its me and my hubby (one to wrangle her up when she decides to run a muck, or we just sit her in the cart, depends where we are) but whats the easiest way to shop with 2 babies? i mean in wal mart im not going to want to be pushing a dual stroller and a shopping cart. i dont think it would be very easy holding my daugthers hand as i am pushing a cart. with the new baby, i will sit the car seat in the shopping cart (the front part) but where does my toddler go? this sounds soo silly, but im wondering, how do you shop with your babies??
wow, brainfart! i didnt even think of a sling!! THANK YOU!! YAY

My husband and I are pretty much newly weds, 1 yr anniversary in 2 days!!! woohooo! but besides that, we are throwing our first ever halloween party this year together at our home, an all adult party, no babies or kids will be attending. Of course i’m in charge of the goodies and treats, but I’VE NEVER THROWN A REAL PARTY!!! HELP! what do I buy as drink and finger foods, I’ve thought of a few things,and have some new and interesting drinks to mix up, but does anyone have any awesome ideas of what I should stock my cart with??? What kinds of things would you like to have at a halloween party you attend???

Thanks for the help! and anyother ideas you come up with, go ahead and let me know.
p.s. Also, tight budget, not a whole lot to work with, but enough, so keep it cheap! lol

Alright, so my son (11 months) and I went to Babies R Us today. We picked out a few nice outfits that were at a great price. Well, he is sitting in the shopping cart and all; we pull up to the register to pay and the lady sees the clothes and my son and asks, "Is this on a baby registry?" Now I do know that they are supposed to say that, I guess, but it drives me crazy every time we go and it is SO obvious that it is NOT on a freakin registry, I mean since the stuff I am purchasing is for my son (and that is made obvious to any normal, healthy adult) I mean, I would understand them asking me this question if I had some 0-3 months girls clothes or something, but man. Does anyone else get annoyed about things like this too?

I am still grossed out about shopping cart handles (those things are SO vile, they are proven to be more infested with germs and bacteria than a PUBLIC RESTROOM. They are covered in human saliva, mucous, urine, fecal matter and blood from raw meat.)

Anyway, I asked if people used shopping cart covers because those things are so gross for a baby to be sitting in.
I also said that ‘Public High Chairs’ don’t bother me (as far as germs go) because only babies sit in them.
The reason shopping carts gross me out is because of the nasty hands of ADULTS touching the handles, not the babies.
Baby ‘germs’ don’t bother me.

A couple people said that ‘baby poop’ is just as bad as adult poop.
WHAT? I don’t think that at all..
Baby poop isn’t pleasant, but it wouldn’t gross me out. If a baby got poop (or vomit) on me I wouldn’t freak out … BUT if an adult pooped on me (or vomited) on me I would totally freak out. I’d probably cry. lol.

So, am I weird for not thinking that baby poop is as gross as adult poop?
Do *most* people put baby poop and adult poop in the same category as for a ‘Nasty and Disgusting!’ goes?

[and here is the link about how incredibly vile shopping cart handles really are]

http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/cart.asp