On a quiet residential pavement, a fluffy white Samoyed trots calmly beside an empty navy pram pushed by a pregnant Black woman in her thirties, who holds his loose lead in her other hand.

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The Car Seat

Every new parent hears the same advice: fit the car seat before the baby comes. The instructions are in eleven languages, none of them helpful, and there are three straps that seem to lead nowhere. Better to find out on a quiet Sunday than in the hospital car park at 3 a.m., with a tiny person yelling.

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