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Help Me Decipher Car Seats

Baby A is getting too long for her infant seat so she needs to move up to a convertible seat soon. I could just buy more of the same seats we already have for M (and rear face them). BUT, I was thinking that the better long term solution would be to move A into M's convertible seats and buy M new seats.

Im so confused by all the varieties of seats for older kids. I dont know what to get for a kid that is currently 3.5 years old and about 35 lbs that can last for quite awhile. Any advice? For those of you that have gone into this territory before...Does the plan to get M new seats rather than Baby A make sense or not?

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Re: Help Me Decipher Car Seats

  • My friend, who is a car seat inspector, and I conversed about something similar last week. If I were in your shoes I would get a five point booster, like the Britax Frontier. It's a full back forward facing seat, with a 5 point harness that attaches with a seat belt through the seat not over the child. That's the key. She's too small and probably too squirmy still for the seatbelt over the shoulder high back booster. 
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  • imagemzovoce:
    My friend, who is a car seat inspector, and I conversed about something similar last week. If I were in your shoes I would get a five point booster, like the Britax Frontier. It's a full back forward facing seat, with a 5 point harness that attaches with a seat belt through the seat not over the child. That's the key. She's too small and probably too squirmy still for the seatbelt over the shoulder high back booster. 

    This was one of the seats I was considering. This one can become a seat with the belt over the shoulder right? Like later? Im trying to figure out something that will last more than a year or so. 

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  • Not that I have ANY experience with this yet but logically I'd move the older child to a booster seat and pass down the convertible seat to the younger child. Also, seat restrictions are changing again for 2014. Letranger posted this on facebook not too long ago.

    http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/perfi/basics/story/2012-06-06/child-safety-seat-latch/55452346/1

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    Not that I have ANY experience with this yet but logically I'd move the older child to a booster seat and pass down the convertible seat to the younger child. Also, seat restrictions are changing again for 2014. Letranger posted this on facebook not too long ago.

    http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/perfi/basics/story/2012-06-06/child-safety-seat-latch/55452346/1

    this only applies to the latches in cars not the seats themselves. Although Britax just came out with the Frontier  90, so you apparently get some good deals on the Frontier 85. Car seat friend gave thumbs up to the 85, the main difference in te two seem to be color options 

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  • We did what you planned on doing, moved T3 to T2's old seat and bought new booster for T2. We have the Graco Nautilus and it works as a 5 pt harness booster, then seat belt booster then backless booster. T2 is 5 but still only about 40 lbs so we still have him in harness booster, he probably can move to the seatbelt now that I am seeing that starts at 30+ pounds

    http://www.gracobaby.com/products/pages/productdetails.aspx?ProductID=8J00MTX#sthash.ovaipFXo.dpbs

    Keep an eye out at Target, I bought a second one for grandmom's car on clearance there last year, probably an older model but pretty much the same thing just different color

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  • imageMsKellDel:

    We did what you planned on doing, moved T3 to T2's old seat and bought new booster for T2. We have the Graco Nautilus and it works as a 5 pt harness booster, then seat belt booster then backless booster. T2 is 5 but still only about 40 lbs so we still have him in harness booster, he probably can move to the seatbelt now that I am seeing that starts at 30+ pounds

    http://www.gracobaby.com/products/pages/productdetails.aspx?ProductID=8J00MTX#sthash.ovaipFXo.dpbs

    I was also looking at this one, so good to know its well liked IRL.

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