RF Car seat and Heat

morita143 · April 2013

Lurker here! Hello. I live in south Texas and it gets suuuper hot here in the summer. DD is 17 months and still rear facing. However, in my car there are no vents in the back seat and it gets really hot back there. On just a warm day her hair and back were soaked in sweat while the AC is on full blast and I am shivering cold in the front. Her safety is #1 priority to me so keeping her rear facing is important but having her sweating like that on a warm day is scary to me as well. We are not even close to the hot summer yet. Anybody else have this problem? any tips or suggestions?

aboynamedbarry · April 2013

Oh man, south Texas! That's gotta be brutal! I was just noticing this problem yesterday with my 14mo old and we live in NY! My only suggestion is to face the vents up toward the ceiling and only the the upper vents not the lower. The lower ones reach the

Karen1998 · April 2013

You need to reangle your vents. Angle them off of you and aim them high and towards the back of the car. That'll help her to get some air flow back there. Though, honestly, carseats are hot regardless of how they're facing.

baloneydisc · April 2013

Karen1998:
You need to reangle your vents. nbsp;Angle them off of you and aim them high and towards the back of the car. nbsp;That'

memali26 · April 2013

I get the concern, and it just plain sucks having a sweat soaked kid. The summer DD1 was about 15-18 months it was 110-120 here every day in July and I felt horrible putting her in that car seat. It was the only time I considered switching her FFing ea

crogers19 · April 2013

One thing I did last summer was bought clip on battery powered stroller fans. I clipped them onto the handle grip above the door and angled the fan at the carseat. I would turn it on to blow the carseat before putting DS in and then left it on till our ne

morita143 · April 2013

Thanks Ladies!!!! I never even thought to angle my vents upward. My car has no tint so that probably is not helping either. Calling up to get some quotes today to get my windows tinted ASAP! I just talked to a co-worker and she also sugge

lageorgiapaperie · April 2013

crogers19:
One thing I did last summer was bought clip on battery powered stroller fans. I clipped them onto the handle grip a

jcsumm0 · April 2013

If you are crafty you can make something like this: https://eighteen25.blogspot.com/2010/07/my-carseat-is-cooler-than-yours.html

LMBecky11 · April 2013

I live in Michigan and don't even have working AC in my van, so I know I can't really relate! But I was thinking of the battery powered clip on fan like PP said. Even just the air movement will help keep your LO cooler. And the angle of the vents will hop

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