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One or two car seats?
Our daily routine is that I drop DS off at daycare, and DH picks him up. He works 7-4 and I work 8:30-5:30, so it has to be that way.
For the first 8 months, DS was in an infant carrier, which I brought into daycare every day and left there. We each had a base for it in our cars. However, I have a bad lower back, and it was starting to be too much for me to cart him around in, so we got a convertible seat that now lives in my car. Until DS grows out of the infant seat, that one will stay in DH's car.
DH just asked me what happens when he grows out of that seat, and my response was that we'll have to get a second convertible seat. He thinks I'm crazy and that I should be taking the convertible seat out and leaving it at daycare for him every day. I think that's insane.
Please weigh in.
Re: One or two car seats?
Hands down... Two seats. You have 2 cars that are used daily.
Definitely get a second car seat! Trying to install and unistall those things is a pain in the butt when you are rushing and lugging a toddler around! It will be the best $200 or so dollars you will ever spend! If you are thinking ahead on this, start looking for sales and coupons to pick up the second one. We have a convertible in each car and it's the greatest thing- seriously!
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We too will have a similar dilemma. I think you are ok with one infant seat, but definetly two convertibles.
Check out Target, especially on Mondays (when they mark down the baby items). You may be able to score a nice one relatively cheap. I've also seen some nice good name ones at Wal-Mart at a decent price.
I have a quick way to fix your little issue.
Try it a few days his way. He'll see it's such a pain in the ass to safely install a huge lumpy carseat.
I can almost guarantee it won't last and you'll convince him to get a second seat in no time!
Also, you don't have to get the same seat for both cars. We have a less expensive seat for my DH's car - it's still safe just less frills.
Thanks, everyone! Glad to hear I'm not crazy. I think we'll likely get a less expensive one for his car (we have a fancy Britax in mine), because my car is definitely our primary vehicle, so DS will rarely be in the other one except for the 5 minute ride home from DC.
DH did make the point that this means we can't have someone pick the baby up from DC in a pinch b/c they won't have a seat to put him in, but I'm not terribly concerned about that.