There's a certain amount of hubris that comes from having a second child when your first child is a reasonably high functioning human being. You think, despite all your trepidation about having a new infant in the house that, hey, at least you've been there once, and you've got some experience with the whole new baby process.
So, imagine my surprise when, at a PTA gathering this morning, the subject of car seat expiration dates comes up.
"Car seats expire?!" I exclaimed, incredulous.
"You didn't know that?!" Responded my friends, just as incredulously.
Um, no.
So, my friends told me to look on the bottom of my car seat, which I did as soon as I got home, but that didn't give me the expiration date, so I turned to my bff, google, who informed me that my carseat expired 5 years after the manufacture date, which was 8 years ago (BTW, the internet also was incredulous that I didn't know about the child seat expiration date). Um, whoops.
And this has been your friendly public service announcement about car seat expiration dates lest you be ridiculed by moms who are in the know or stopped on the way home from the hospital.
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