So in December, we plan to go for a trip in Africa. He will be almost 6 months. And we are making preparations. So I tell hubby, this time we need a car that doesn't blow dust out of the AC. (On my last visit, this was the case and I had soil in my eyes and throat) and he goes like "he ain't special, other kids in Africa deal with it" and am thinking. Gash those kids are born there and may be used to it but everything is gonna be new and might irritate him. Want to make the transition as smooth as possible. To ask for a car with a a good AC doesn't mean I think other kids are not kids who have to deal with it. And I don't see why I should let him deal with STH that can be avoided just because there is a child somewhere on this planet who has no choice. Also my child is special to me. Am sure my baby is not as special to other mothers as their kids are.

Just know I was so mad. It reminded me of when he was a new born of 3 weeks and temperatures were 104 outside. The car got so hot my boy was crying his lungs out. The AC was not working. And I wanted to go home immediately but he kept insisting the baby can handle it, he ain't special and life should not stop. That he is fine. I cried for my boy. I just kept thinking what if he gets a heat shock? Kids die in over heating cars. The car was so hot! What irony that it is always the car AC that makes us fight about the child but remembering that incidence, makes me fear the upcoming trip. Am so close to cancelling it because I don't want my baby to have to be put through so much. Seeing his own dad doesn't see the need for precaution. But he has to meet his paternal grandparents. (Our pediatrician advised us not to go at this early age but my husband is a doctor and still says kids survive in Africa) See I do understand that he was born in Africa and he grew up going through some of these things but sometimes I feel like he just is making the people he loves just suffer yet we have the means to solve some of these issues.

Just venting.