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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm asking this question purely out of curiosity, as we have a car, a carseat, and have already had it installed at the inspection station.  But I have some friends who do not use cars or drive, and was wondering what they will do when they bring their babies home from the hospital and it made me curious about a number of situations because I've heard that a carseat is required before you can bring your baby home.  But what if the parents are planning to use public transportation or walk home?  And what do hospitals do for low-income parents who just can't afford carseats and maybe their babies have come early or something and they hadn't prepared?

I'm sorry for asking a question without a vested interest in the answer, but I'm just curious.  Thanks![/quote]

Hi OP, I just read through the entire thread and I am guessing your delivery date is approaching and you are anxious about it....maybe not about the carseat issue but something else that you do have a vested interest in??? This is your first pregnancy right? This whole thing about whether the rule applies to everyone and whether the rule will be enforced...isn't about the carseat, correct? It's about when you can get the epidural? when it's too late to ask for one? whether your birthplan will be respected? whether the water will break in an embarrassing place? whether labor will be tolerable?

Anyway, we didn't have a car and there were no plans to get one but it was fairly affordable to get a Graco snugride carseat for about $50 from Walmart and a Snap n go for another $50 to create a stroller (and both can be had for half of those amounts used) because I didn't live across from Sibley and I planned to take a taxi home from the hospital (it was end of November and I was way too paranoid as a first-time parent to even consider taking the bus home - risk of infection, cold weather), and I assumed the carseat/stroller combination would be used to go for walks, help baby sleep, go grocery shopping, take baby to the multiple visits to pediatrician during the first year using taxi and carseat that it would be worth it. That carseat had so many uses even though it was rarely in a car - it was a crib, it was a rocker, it was a place to put baby down when I had to go to the bathroom. Getting a carseat even though I didn't have a car and didn't plan to get one was a no-brainer, as silly as though it may sound to you.

I hope you figure out what's really making you nervous, if there is something else. Good luck with your delivery.[/quote]

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