lifting heavy grandchild

The link from The Telegraph includes a video. Presumably acceptable as long as it is not the DM.

Don't bother, Rosequartz

I will try to do the link from the daily telegraph if that would be preferable.

However, after a day of looking after not very well DGD and getting over the virus myself as well, then I may just

There was no need to name the child or show his face, Rosequartz.
It may well have been reported elsewhere, but I haven't seen it, but you provided the link to the DM.
My point was not that we should not be concerned about obese children, but we should be concerned about their privacy.
A few years ago a 6 year-old boy from North Tyneside was taken into care because he was clinically obese, but his name and image were not plastered over either the national or the local press.

What an offensive comment! It was reported in many quarters here and around the world, not just the DM.

We should all be concerned about this sort of thing happening both here and overseas surely, and perhaps that will shock some people into not continuing to overfeed their children.

Poor child indeed.

Good grief.
Does the fact that a child lives in a Third World country mean that it is not entitled to the same privacy and protection of its identity as children in this country?
The DM is disgusting.

Oh dear indeed

Oh dear.

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Hope it works this time

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Check this one out - poor child

It's a nightmare isn't it? As somebody said, it's the bending and twisting that does the poor old back in! If you have to do this a lot, what about taking one of those small plastic 'steps' out to the car, getting the toddler to stand on that and climb into his/her car seat, then you still have the strapping in to do, but not the lifting. Throw the step into the boot and use at the other end of the journey to get her out of the car.Every little helps.

I just don't seem to have the strength in my arms to lift my two these days. I've no idea why, but my muscles scream in protest and I just can't do it.

I was always told to bend knees before lifting

Pilates is probably the best way to strengthen up your mid section and make you less liable to back pain.

DD1 was a grand master of the rigid toddler mode in her Maclaren buggy!

Neither DH nor I can manage the harness of the car seat, apparently there is a way to loosen it then tighten it once it is clicked into place. Apparently.
DGD2 does climb in and out of the seat by herself now, thank goodness.

I have a fixed memory of DD2, aged just 2, wearing a royal blue all-in-one mothercare padded slippy suit thing, legs outstretched so that feet were planted on the ground, body rigid, violently and very noisily objecting to having to sit in her pushchair.
At the time I had no car and all shopping had to be done with her and DD1 aged 4 in tow, on the bus.
Those were the days - not!

Nellie a sharp karate chop to the solar plexus cures 'rigid toddler mode'

#onlyjokingithink

I have to get mine to get in and out themselves - it sometimes takes a bit of persuasion (bribery?).

It is interesting how quickly they accept that grandma does things in a different way. I care for my 13 month old GD regularly and she often comes up to me with her arms raised to be picked up for a cuddle. She has got used to the fact that when she does this I take her by the hand and walk her to the nearest chair and then pull her up onto my lap.

I cannot lift any of them and we just find ways around it.

What really annoys me is that I cannot even do a jigsaw or lay out a train track on the floor, even from sitting as it hurts my hip so much.

Yes, be prepared for it to take forever, but getting them to climb in a d out themselves is the way forward.

Now has anyone a tip for fastening and unfastening those blasted harness belts once they're in the seats, with arthritic fingers?

Anno Similar situation! Two car seats in the back of a Mini probably added to my back problems. I always went for four doors after that.

When my two boys were small, we had a two-door car and getting them in and out of car seats was an ordeal I wouldn't care to repeat in my current decrepit state. Perhaps that's why I have a dodgy back more than 40 years later.

My DGS is a bit too small to climb into the car or the seat by himself yet but it's the best solution.
It doesn't help when he has decided he doesn't want to go in at all, then it's "go into rigidly unbendable toddler mode."

I have seen them kitty, a seat that swivels on the base is a boon. Have not been able to lift GD since she was I year old, she had to learn to climb in herself.

DD2 has one that swivels round to face the car door - magic!!