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Originally Posted by Swirlie
To the father who takes the baby when it is fussing, but leaves the mother with the cart... good on ya... but why? Why not take the stroller as well, and let mom shop with a cart?
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I guess this is directed at me since I'm the one who posted it...
When the kid goes nuts, it's usually because he's fed up with being in the stroller or wants to be held or needs to be changed, etc. For anything short of being hungry, I'll usually handle (unless we're buying produce, in which case my wife couldn't pick out a ripe piece of fruit to save her life). That means picking him up and getting him some place where he'll disturb the minimum amount of people possible and trying to sooth him. Carrying a screaming baby, trying to sooth him while walking AND pushing a stroller is virtually impossible (for me at least), so the stroller usually stays with mom. The choices for her are to take all the stuff out of the stroller, collapse it and find a place for the stuff and the stroller in the cart where it won't be mixed up with what we're buying or just load everything into the stroller. Which is easier? That's why we'll continue to shop as a team for at least the next few months until he's old enough to sit up in the cart and be belted in. Right now he's just too small.