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Post by thyme4change on Jun 14, 2011 12:45:11 GMT -5
Is that one you can leave them facing backwards until they are 27 years old?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2011 12:46:03 GMT -5
With the truck (and the reverse doors) you will have trouble in parking lots. It is very difficult to get yourself and a child positioned between the opened doors such that you can strap the baby into the seat. Have you ever tried to load groceries from a cart into the backseat of the truck while parked next to a car? It's even worse with a baby - LOL. ^^This!^^^ I had a supercab truck until recently and it was a NIGHTMARE in grocery store parking lots. Absolutely awful loading and unloading groceries and a baby when you're trapped between two doors and the car next to you. If it was me, I'd get rid of all three and get two vehicles that work for you better. It doesn't have to be big, until recently we had four vehicles. Two cars, a truck and a van, and what got used the most was the $3400 Prizm and that was with two adults and 2 kids. It got great mileage, was easy enough to get the kids in and out of and while we weren't riding in luxury, it's comfortable.
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Post by keeponworkin on Jun 14, 2011 13:27:57 GMT -5
For the comment about tethering the carseat rearfacing, what do you tether it to? None of our vehicles have latch.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2011 13:32:05 GMT -5
For the comment about tethering the carseat rearfacing, what do you tether it to? None of our vehicles have latch. tethering and latch are 2 completely separate things. For tethering rearfacing, you tether (using a D-ring) to a non moving metal part of the car. The carseat instructions would discuss this.
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Post by kgb18 on Jun 14, 2011 13:35:14 GMT -5
We run into that with DH's truck. I did buy a bigger vehicle when we had DD, and I don't regret it one bit. I think I have the perfect vehicle as far as space for the carseat and the cargo area, and it will still be fine when we have #2. We did not have DD tethered when she was rear-facing. The car seat is hooked in my car using the LATCH system and a tether now that she's front-facing.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jun 14, 2011 13:44:49 GMT -5
Is that one you can leave them facing backwards until they are 27 years old? LOL. No. it is just the typical infant seat. I think it is the britax Chaperone. If you really want to rearface them until it is time to drive, then you need to go with Sunshine kids Radians. (For the record we currently have Britax Boulevard and are still rear facing our 25 pound 17 month old).
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Post by kgb18 on Jun 14, 2011 13:55:17 GMT -5
Good for you muttley. I caved and turned DD front-facing in February (at 15 months old and 22 pounds) before we took a road trip. I knew she would cry for most of the trip if she was facing the seat. She met the requirements, but I really intended to leave her rear-facing for longer.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jun 14, 2011 14:06:22 GMT -5
kgb - Thanks. I really shouldn't be braggin, because it is really that DS doesn't mind rearfacing in the car. We have a mirror set up so we can see him and he's pretty darn content. We'll keep him rear facing for our trip at the end of the month, but I know DH is itching to turn him. I hope we can make it 2, but I'll be happy to get to 18 months. He looks so comfortable sleeping rearfacing and when he drops his toys they end up on his lap, unless he purposefully drops them over the side (which he does).
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 15, 2011 9:20:57 GMT -5
Snerd, infant carrier carseats pop in and out of the base unit. So you can have multiple base units but only 1 carrier (the base units for ours ran about $30 each, while another carrier was probably $150.) I'm not sure if you can buy an infant carseat that's not detachable anymore. And the carrier part weighs another 10-30 lbs in addition to your baby. So it's not an insubstantial amount of weight to be heaving around.
We had a 4 door Ford Focus when DD was an infant. I was killing my back hauling the carrier in and out of the backseat a couple of times a day and that was WITH a door to use. So it's not just personal inconvenience, it's potential medical/physical issues as well, for some of us. It needs to be considered as part of the equation. How much weight it should be given truly depends on one's circumstances. It's the main reason I insisted on a minivan and passed the Focus onto DH when we replaced the truck he'd been driving when DD was about 6 months old.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jun 15, 2011 9:23:09 GMT -5
I know from 11 months of having a 2 door car with an infant that it is far easier to use the bucket seat and a base that it clicks into to get your LO in and out than it is to climb in the back and get them out of the seat. We did that after he was about 6 months old, but OMG what a PITA. Fortunately we got a 4 door vehicle before we switched to a convertible seat. I had to get him into the convertible seat only once (still rear facing) in our 2 door car and it was harder than the infant seat because it was wider, so less space to sit down to get him properly situated in the seat. I tried getting him out, just by leaning over ... lol that probably would have made it onto americas funniest home videos if someone had taped it. They are obviously being smart about money and about transportation. She's not asking to go out and buy $30k vehicle.
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Post by soon2bmomof3 on Jun 15, 2011 9:28:05 GMT -5
How long did you guys use the infant carrier?
Both DS and DD started out as 8 lb newborns. With both, I think I quit when the doubled in weight because we had a heavy carrier. We traded in that travel system for a more lightweight one when we found out I was pregnant with #3.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 15, 2011 12:42:42 GMT -5
How long did you guys use the infant carrier? Both DS and DD started out as 8 lb newborns. With both, I think I quit when the doubled in weight because we had a heavy carrier. We traded in that travel system for a more lightweight one when we found out I was pregnant with #3. With DD, 9 months because I had to switch during the coldest Feb. we'd had in a while. With DS, God, I'm not sure when we switched out. I think he hit the weight limit but I don't remember the details. Bad Mommy...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2011 13:15:11 GMT -5
DS was a little over 20 lbs at 4 months and we quit the infant carrier at that point.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jun 15, 2011 13:20:48 GMT -5
DS was almost a year when we switched to a convertible, but we only waited that long until we had a new car. I was wanting to get a convertible car seat for him sooner but was waiting to see what vehicle we would get. We started leaving the infant carrier in the car around 6 months.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2011 14:36:52 GMT -5
The bucket infant seats are great at first with little 6-7 pound babies, but both my sons were over 20 pounds by the time they were 6 months old. If I had to do it all over and didn't have hand-me-down seats, I'd save my money and go straight to the convertible seat.
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Post by kgb18 on Jun 15, 2011 16:18:32 GMT -5
We used the infant carrier until DD was almost a year old. I loved it, especially during the winter because we didn't have to unbundle her in the cold and snow. We had bases for each our cars.
She outgrew the infant seat length-wise around a year. She is now 20-months-old and she only outgrew the weight requirement about a month ago. She's long a skinny.
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