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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would absolutely leave my baby in the car with the windows rolled down.  I have three kids, and have done variations on this many many times over the years.

I can’t help but think that the naysayers here didn’t pay attention to the fact that you’re going to walk 30 feet and be in view of the car the whole time.  You really are allowed to be 30 feet away from your baby when she is safely situated in a secure environment.[/quote]

This reminds me of how a friend of mine freaked out when I told her that we'd go to our neighbor's home for dinner sometimes after putting the baby down for the night, and just take the monitor with us. She was freaking out about how dangerous that was, and I'm sure a lot of people reading this are freaking out too. How could we do that???

Well we live in an apartment building, our apartment is 800 square feet, the neighbors were right next door. So the baby was as close, if not closer, to us that a lot of people are in their own homes -- we could be in her nursery in less than a minute if we needed to, and we'd keep the monitor in sight and go in and check on her every 30 minutes or so. It was much preferable than having our friends to eat in our tiny apartment while the baby was sleeping, where we'd be paranoid about waking her up.

People don't pay attention to the details that make a decision perfectly reasonable -- they want to jump to the conclusion that allows them to point a finger at a woman and call her unfit, because that's an American pastime. [/quote]

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