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Amanda&ChrisAmanda&Chris
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  • goodheartedmommygoodheartedmommy member
    I'm here now. What's up?
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  • Amanda&ChrisAmanda&Chris

    Right now we have a Marathon and a Snugride base in each car.  Cara had her 9 month check today and she is only 16 lbs 12 oz and 26.5 in so she'll likely be able to be in the Snugride past one year.  Lila was 26 lbs at 3 years and is still RF in her Marathon, but she is getting very close to the height limit for RF.

    I know we still have awhile before Cara needs to switch to the Marathon, but Amazon had closeout sales on the Marathon this week so I ordered one more and it got me thinking about our next carseats.  MH doesn't have both girls very often, but it's nice to have the set up for both of them in each of our cars so we don't have to move stuff around.

    I will definitely have two Marathons in my car, one for each of them, but I'm wondering if it would be okay to have a Marathon for Cara and a Nautilus for Lila in MH's car?  I read all of the stuff on CPSafety about combination seats, but I still don't know what to do. Lila still obviously has quite awhile before she outgrows the Marathon FF, so should I just suck it up and have 4 Marathons/convertible seats or would it be okay, do you think, to have a Nautilus for her in MH's car so that we have one less new seat to buy down the line?

    Sorry for the novel!  I obsess over everything and right now it's carseats that I can't get out of my head even though I have months before it is an issue. :O

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  • goodheartedmommygoodheartedmommy member
    The combination seats that are frowned upon are ones like the Safety First alpha omega--ones that go from RF to FF to booster. The booster part always sucks, and it doesn't have a tall harness. Seats like the nauti are just fine. The nautilus can be a good booster, but it's not a good fit for all kids--it can make the belt ride a little too high, especially on a smaller child. I'd probably go with the britax frontier instead. FWIW, there was a canadian study that found seats high on a base (like the marathon) to be not so safe for a bigger FF kid, so I'd prefer a seat like the nautilus or frontier for a FF child over the marathon. I'd probably put the frontier in your car, and the marathon in the lesser used car.
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  • Amanda&ChrisAmanda&Chris
    Thanks for the info!!!  Do you know the name of the Canadian study or have a link?  I'd like to see it.
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  • goodheartedmommygoodheartedmommy member

    https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/roadsafety/safedrivers-childsafety-programs-testing-harness-report-923.htm

     

    https://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=118242&highlight=high+on+base this kind of explains the concern--it's that the higher center of gravity allows for more head excursion, but it also explains some of the other potential concerns with the marathon FF--I don't think it's a HUGE deal, but something to be aware of :)

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