Hey ladies! With so many new little ones coming I thought it may be a post to review car seat safety! I know I made so many mistakes when DS was a newborn in terms of strap positioning and chest clips!
I think the most important things I learned was when rear facing the straps need to be at or below the shoulders in the car seat and the chest clip needs to be even with the arm pit!
What other things would you ladies consider important for car seat safety?
Re: Car seat safety!
Don't, under any circumstances balance them on your shopping cart. So dangerous and I see it all the time and it makes me sweat. Kids die from this and it remains socially acceptable. This is worse than placing them on an elevated surface...also a bad idea.
Don't carry the carrier around with the infant unbuckled in the carrier, I see that a lot a work. People just innocently set the infant in there and pick the carrier up.
No wrapping the blanket around baby first and then buckling, buckle then bundle. They will not die of coldness in the 1 minute it takes to buckle them properly.
and please, hold your baby while bottle feeding, bottle propping inside an infant carrier (or anywhere for that matter) is dangerous, and just think of how much a baby wants to be held and talked to and looked at while eating, that's bonding time whether its breast or bottle. Or even eating a meal as a family. I know that's not totally carseat only, but I see that a lot too.
baby #3 arrived in September 2014...cannot get ticker to work no matter what I try!
Since it attaches to the latch system near the buckles at the back, is there a way or should it be connected to the seat bottom at the front? It really seems to move up and down easily when I lift up. Shouldn't the base be completely secure from moving any direction? Or am I just being too paranoid?
"What did my fingers do before they held you? What did my heart do with it's love?"
I totally recommend the blog Car Seats for the Littles as well as the Facebook group of the same name. They are extremely knowledgeable and you can post pictures of your install and fit of car seat and they answer your questions. One thing I have noticed though is that of you just post a picture and ask a question, you get a million comments from around the world. For the most accurate info I would go straight to the source and pm a tech or admin on the fb page. They are all listed in the documents for the page and super helpful. I have asked about how to arrange our seats and got good recommendations on seats to look at.