CAR SEAT LADY.(The Talk of the Town)(Alisa Baer)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 05-SEP-05

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Men, of course, do not give birth, but they have their own shadow form of labor: installing the baby's car seat. This seemingly simple job has ruined plenty of golfing Saturdays, even for guys who solved Rubik's Cube when they were younger. Thankfully, in Manhattan there's an expert for everything, and if you're expecting a son and have no idea how to get him home from the hospital, you can call Alisa Baer, the Car Seat Lady.

Baer, a twenty-five-year-old medical student with curly black hair and a nonsense-free manner, doesn't have any kids herself, but she can tell you which car seats will and will not fit...

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