Weird Question!! About Infant Car Seats

AWPH

Do all of the infant car seats click onto grocery carts? Saw a baby in its car seat and it clicked onto the grocery cart by the handle of the cart and wanted to know if every car seat will do this or is this also something to look for in a car seat?

LyndseylovesHugh

mbm1983 said:

No. And the ones that can aren't made for that. You are risking damaging the locking mechanism which would NOT be good in the event of a crash.

Plus i've seen carts tip over with the infant seat on top. Also not good!

just use your stroller or put the infant seat in the basket.

This! They should never be put there, it's very dangerous.

headgear03

very very dangerous practice. never put an infant seat in the top portion of the shopping cart. Allot of seats are being designed to deter parents from using the seat this way . There is no seat out on the market that is made to snap in and evey single seats instructions will specifically state not to do this.

LittleApple

No.  It is very unsafe.  Just because the seat looks like it clicks in, it really doesn't and can easily be thrown off the cart by someone walking by and bumping it, hitting something etc.

Just don't do it.

hollygb22

Go on youtube and search for the Home Depot video of the parent who had their kid on top of a cart.

You should put an infant carrier up in the seat portion of the cart. Buy a stroller with a large basket..that's what I grocery shopped with or baby wear when shopping

kmc84

Just chiming in to say PLEASE never ever ever do this! It's so, so dangerous! Babies have died from carts tipping over or seats falling

FmrAFBrat

There's an article about this on Safety 1st's Facebook page. There are some sad stories out there. Don't do it.

=Lee=B

NO...and in additional to all the concerns above there is also the concern that clicking it on a cart damages the clicking mechanism...which is what holds the seat secure in a car.  Thereby potentially making it useless in a car crash.

So not worth the risk.  I wore my daughter until she was old enough to sit in the seat of a cart...I still wear her should she not be in the mood to be in the cart.

=Lee=B

And a lot of 'stupid questions' are actually very worthwhile to ask.  Most people out there with infants on the top of carts never asked this question so were not informed of the dangers.

 

PB102012

mbm1983 said:

No. And the ones that can aren't made for that. You are risking damaging the locking mechanism which would NOT be good in the event of a crash.

Plus i've seen carts tip over with the infant seat on top. Also not good!

just use your stroller or put the infant seat in the basket.

100% agree with this.

AWPH

THANK YOU!!! Good to know!!