Car seat question

monica92603

Did you move your older child behind you in the car to put new baby behind the passenger seat so you could see them better?  I'm thinking if I should decide to do this if I should do it now so it's not a "new baby is here so YOU have to move" type thing for DD.

spunkyprincessmande

I can't reach across the seats so we have the baby on driver's side and toddler on the passenger side. They both have mirrors so I can see them. Sinse ds1 is bigger he can meet my hand halfway when he wants his cup or something. That was the deciding factor for us.

celiabwatson

My backseat is very shallow so my infant seat only fits on the passenger side and I had to turn my toddler FF in order to fit him on the driver's side. I did move him about a month before my due date so I could install the infant bases. He didn't mind at all, although when walking to the car he did often forget which side to go to.

memali26

Both of my girls are still RFing. DD1 is behind the driver in a convertible seat, DD2 is behind the passenger in an infant seat. We put the seats where they fit best in our small car while still making sure they could both RF. It's very rare that I drive more than 20 minutes with the girls by myself, so being able to reach the baby while I'm driving wasn't a concern. And actually, after doing a 6 hour each way road trip by myself with them, I found it easier to have DD1 behind me so I could just drop snacks and toys over the top of the seat into her lap :P

We did move DD1 to the other side of the car several months before DD2 was born. Not so much so she wouldn't feel displaced, but more because we were moving her out of the infant seat and into the convertible, and we figured we might as well install the convertible where it would be staying instead of moving it later. 

mrsseguin

We didn't move our kids around.  The oldest is behind the passenger and the youngest is behind the driver. 

kagl08

Both my kids are still RFing and both are in convertible seats. DD (toddler) is behind the driver and DS (infant) is behind the passenger. My reasoning for this is because I always take DD out of the car 1st. It just makes sense for our everyday life. Because of mirrors, and the fact that my car is huge and I could never reach back to give them anything, seeing or handing children something had nothing to do with this decision.

StefandTodd

Our 9 month old has always been behind the driver, so we'll leave him there and put the new baby behind the passenger (we have no middle seat).