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XP: Mom's with 3+ kids, how did you put your carseats in your minivan?

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How are you arranging your kids? I am putting the infant carseat in today and am trying to strategize the best way possible to have all 3 kids in there. I think I am going to put our 4 year old in the way back in the middle, she is still in a convertible and will be until she is 6, and unfortunately I still have to buckle her in... Then, I was going to put the baby behind the passenger seat so I can just pop him in or out curbside while having our 24 month old scramble in across to climb in his seat behind mine. Does anyone have a better suggestion? We only have captain seats in the second row of our Sienna.

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Re: XP: Mom's with 3+ kids, how did you put your carseats in your minivan?

  • celiabwatsonceliabwatson

    Can you take out one captain seat? Then you could put the baby behind you, the toddler and the bigger one in the back and you can reach them all by kneeling in the empty space.

    I wouldn't put the 4 year old in the middle in the back because the seatbelts there are likely a little funny (at least in vans I've seen) and it may end up lining up wrong when in a booster. I'd go to one side or the other.  

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  • MammaBear81MammaBear81 member
    imageceliabwatson:

    Can you take out one captain seat? Then you could put the baby behind you, the toddler and the bigger one in the back and you can reach them all by kneeling in the empty space.

    I wouldn't put the 4 year old in the middle in the back because the seatbelts there are likely a little funny (at least in vans I've seen) and it may end up lining up wrong when in a booster. I'd go to one side or the other.  

    This is what we did, it works wonders.  Of course all of my seats are taken, but when we had a 4th I did three across the back and the baby behind me.

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  • bellelambbellelamb member
    Luckily my oldest is almost 8 so he's only in a booster and can buckle himself, but ds#2 is18 months and still rear facing so he's behind the passenger seat, the infant carrier is behind the drivers seat because it takes up less room and when dh drives he needs the room he's 6'4".  My oldest is in the back behind the 18 month old so I can still put one seat down if I need to.  I still haven't had lo so I have yet to see how this all works out.
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  • Temp200154562509288Temp200154562509288

    DD1 is 4 and she's on the passenger side in the very back, I still have to buckle her in, she's in a graco nautilus. DD2 is rearfacing behind the driver seat in the middle row. For DS we took out the middle seat in the middle row and moved over the passenger side captains chair so he is in the middle next to DD2. It worked well, when you put the 2 captains chairs together there is just enough space between them to keep DD2 from messing with him while we're driving.

     

    -we have a honda odyssey 

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