如何避免汽座惡夢 How to avoid car seat nightmares 我們永遠都忘不了Egan第一次搭車，重點是，那是我和George第一次試著安裝嬰兒汽車安全座椅。那整個安裝的過程根本就像我在分娩生寶寶時一樣又久又痛！(好的我知道我浮誇但我們真的覺得好像花了一輩子的時間才裝好) We’ll never forget Egan’s very first car ride...and more importantly: the very first time George Young and I tried to install a car seat. It seemed to last just as long and was just as painful as the delivery itself (ok, so I exaggerate, but it felt like forever) 那天是我生完Egan後要離開醫院的第一天，也同時是Egan第一次見到外面的世界。可能是因為我們睡眠不足，或是因為有了寶寶而太興奮(又或者是兩者的綜合)，事情真的不像我們計畫的那樣簡單。George和我每一個步驟都大，錯，特，錯：沒有拉好安全帶；安全帶拉得太快；Egan開始大哭我們就跟著開始慌張(相信我，這時候慌張對狀況一點幫助也沒有)⋯⋯等，這一切都看在我媽媽、護理師，甚至還有計程車司機大哥的眼裡，我想他們應該當時情緒跟我們一樣複雜，不知道該笑我們還是和我們一起哭。 We were leaving the hospital for the first time after Egan’s birth… Egan’s first ever experience of the outside world. Maybe it was the lack of sleep, or the excitement of having a baby (or a combination of both) but things did NOT go as planned. George and I were doing EVERYTHING wrong: not adjusting the seat belt properly, pulling the seat belt too quickly, panicking when Egan started to cry increasingly loudly (which doesn’t get you anywhere, believe me)...all this while my mom, nurses, and taxi driver looked on, not knowing whether to laugh at us or cry with us. 自從那次，我們就學會如何讓寶寶安全汽座安裝的又好又順。而且Egan很愛坐車！看來他也遺傳到媽媽的基因，天生就愛旅遊哈！ Since then, we’ve learnt how to install a car seat properly and smoothly, and Egan LOVES his car rides! I think he was a born traveler. 拜託大家，從我們的錯誤中學習，所以你們也能避免發生那種又是一堆眼淚又是滿身大汗不是太好看又有點漏氣的窘境。(流淚是寶寶的部分，不過你們或是阿公阿嬤也可能會兩行淚。流汗當然是你們。至於不體面是指對於在自己的母親或丈母娘面前似乎有點漏氣) PLEASE learn from our mistakes so you can avoid the tears (on the baby’s part...and perhaps on you and your partner’s part too), the sweat (definitely on your part) and the disapproving looks (on your mom/mother in law’s part). #britax See full post and our tips on fb.com/janethsiehonline