OT:i'm having a mommy moment....

itsjustmeghan · 05-30-2007, 08:49 PM

i just needed to vent to other mommies.
on our way home from work tonight, owen coughed, hit his gag and proceeded to vomit ALL OVER himself and his carseat.

we pulled over, i cleaned up owen while DH made due with extra clothes and wipes from owen's diaper bag to clean the seat up enough to get home (another 45 mins).
when we got home, i wanted to take the carseat cover off to throw it straight in the washer so it'd be ready for tomorrow.
for whatever reason the manufacturerer of this carseat (which we purchased beause of the great safety reviews) decided it was necessary for me to remove 8, YES 8, screws on the back of the carseat for me to unhook the straps to get the cover off the carseat.

wouldn't it make more sense for them to do what my infant carrier seat did and put velcroed slots in the seat cover so you could remove the carseat cover without disassembling the carseat and possibly hinder the safety performance?!

ahhhhh....
i feel better. thank you for listening.....

robynbird · 05-31-2007, 02:30 AM

OH I'm sorry! BTDT...it is such a pain to remove the carseat pads. I hope you were able to get it back together properly and that Owen is feeling better!

auburnchick · 05-31-2007, 02:50 AM

Been there...done that...

Only, the one time I had to clean vomit from the kids' car seats, it was my dh's, who had indulged too much at a co-worker's retirement party and couldn't wait to get home to get sick. Can you picture the car going down the turnpike (I was designated driver, of course) @ 75mph and dh puking, and the puke flying back IN the car, slapping me in the face and covering the kids' car seats and back of the car we just purchased THAT day!!!

Talk about mad and

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I had to be at church really early the next morning, and I had to answer the kids' questions about why their seats were covered in towels. Try explaining that to a one year old and a three year old.

Hope I made you laugh.

Take a nice hot bubble bath and paint your toenails...make yourself feel better.

Jan in CA · 05-31-2007, 02:56 AM

Nathalie!

Maybe you can find another cover to go over this one so next time (heaven forbid, but it does happen) it will be easier.

PaperGirl · 05-31-2007, 03:10 AM

OOOOOOOH! I totally feel your pain! That happened with me, my sister, my dd, and her 2 boys....and we were on a single lane BRIDGE over a HUGE lake...and Mikey was justapuking EVERYWHERE.

OMG..talk about gross. Poor Mikey, he finished puking, and Skylar was going...Mommy GROSS! And Aryn was like, Mommy, Michael puked on the car!

My poor sister was tripping out...thinking her kid was dying...I was laughing my butt off cause of the look on her face...it was a

moment for all of us.

cookworm · 05-31-2007, 04:59 AM

Poor you! Life with kids is never boring, that's for sure. I tell my husband all the time that I don't need to do "daredevil" stuff (you know, like skydiving, bungee jumping) because I have three kids, and that's adventure enough!

I know that car seats are essential in keeping our kids safe, but there's sure nothing convenient to them in the way they're designed, especially when you have to remove that padding to wash it (which happens pretty regularly when you have little ones); I don't know why they make it so darned hard to remove.

I myself have become a veteran of the being sick in the car scenario (kids and hubby!), so I carry one of those plastic tubs they give you in the hospital around with me "just in case". It won't help a little one back there that won't understand how to use it, but if there's an older sibling in the back that can help a baby to use it, or if an adult is sick, then it comes to great use.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.

Mommy22alyns · 05-31-2007, 04:41 PM

You have my sympathies. I had a horrible time dissecting my younger daughter's carseat after a vomit episode. Or two.

msoebel · 05-31-2007, 04:57 PM

My friend's son threw up out the window of the car...or so they thought. Actually, he threw up mostly out the window... some of it got down in the window tract and filtered down into the door. At the beginning of July.

When they finally decided to take the door apart to see where that smell was coming from, they discovered a "forrest" inside the door.

It seems like kids ALWAYS throw up in the most inconvenient places! And yes, I too have had to take apart a car seat just to take the cover off. I think it was designed by a man...whose wife always cleaned up after the kids.

Misty

Jill A. · 05-31-2007, 06:21 PM

My story:
My son bought some of those STUPID Harry Potter Bertie Bott jelly beans that have all the yucky flavors. We were in the car on the way home from an outing late in the evening (dark). My son proposed a game with his sister...they would take a jelly bean from the box and eat it without sniffing or trying to see the color. Erin took a jelly bean, which turned out to be sardine, and she puked on the floor.

My son will never be allowed to buy those jelly beans again!!

PaperGirl · 05-31-2007, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by msoebel

It seems like kids ALWAYS throw up in the most inconvenient places! And yes, I too have had to take apart a car seat just to take the cover off. I think it was designed by a man...whose wife always cleaned up after the kids.

Misty

Ahh yes. My oldest once threw up in a checkout lane, right behind 2 very well dressed older ladies...and some puke splashed on her pants...OMG...that women looked at my daughter like she was filth, and made ugly comments about it...it was awful. The entire lane, and the checker were trying to make DD feel better...offered her a Sprite, and some towels..those old ladies just stalked off.