When do you start leaving seat in car?

sdemilio1231 · May 2013

I'm just wondering when you start taking baby out of the car seat and leaving it in the car? It's getting pretty heavy to carry! But I worry about the buckles and what not getting too hot if left in the car... I'm a FTM so these things are all new to me.

sdemilio1231 · May 2013

I live in TX and it gets in the 90's -100's here all summer. We don't have a garage so the car sits in the sun all day! The blanket is a good idea. It's just that some carts are not car seat friendly and it's hard to fit groceries in there with the seat! I have worn him a few times but I'm still having pain in my side and back from the csection. (At least that's what the doc told me was causing it) so wearing him gets painful sometimes.

pinottoparenthood · May 2013

When we are at home, I always leave the car seat in the car. I don't take it out. If we are running errands, I usually snap LO's car seat into the Snap and Go. I VERY rarely lug that heavy thing around. The only time we really haul him around in his car seat is if we're eating at a restaurant, because then it's convenient to keep it in the booth next to me or on the floor right next to our table and he will sleep in it. LO is one month old.

pinottoparenthood · May 2013

sdemilio1231:
I live in TX and it gets in the 90's -100's here all summer. We don't have a garage so the car sits in the sun all day! The blanket is a good idea. It's just that some carts are not car seat friendly and it's hard to fit groceries in there with the seat! I have worn him a few times but I'm still having pain in my side and back from the csection. (At least that's what the doc told me was causing it) so wearing him gets painful sometimes.

If I am shopping at the grocery store or Target, I put his car seat into the main (big) part of the cart, NOT on top. You're not actually supposed to put the car seat on the top of the cart, it's not safe. You're right that it's hard to put things in the cart. I usually pack everything into the top part of the cart where a bigger child would sit and I also put big stuff under the cart. That's usually plenty of room for me, but if I had to make a bigger shpping trip (like to Costco, for example), I go with my husband over the weekend so that I can push LO in his snap and go and DH can push the cart.

ClandestineX · May 2013

I will only leave the car seat in the car when it is a front sitting one.

ClandestineX · May 2013

LalaMama81:
ClandestineX:
I will only leave the car seat in the car when it is a front sitting one.
You know that it is recommended that you rear face until at least 2, right? I doubt you will even carry an infant seat around with a one year old.

Recommended perhaps, not required. Also in a matter in fact I have carried a one year old in a car seat before, when I was taking care of my cousin and didn't have a car of my own.

doremi29 · May 2013

ClandestineX:
LalaMama81:
ClandestineX:
I will only leave the car seat in the car when it is a front sitting one.
You know that it is recommended that you rear face until at least 2, right? I doubt you will even carry an infant seat around with a one year old.
Recommended perhaps, not required. Also in a matter in fact I have carried a one year old in a car seat before, when I was taking care of my cousin and didn't have a car of my own.

The convertible seats that you move them up to after the infant seat can be rear-facing and most people rf them for awhile. I'm not a soapbox type but you might wanna just read this as an fyi

https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/AAP-Updates-Recommendation-on-Car-Seats.aspx

ClandestineX · May 2013

LalaMama81:
ClandestineX:
LalaMama81:
ClandestineX:
I will only leave the car seat in the car when it is a front sitting one.
You know that it is recommended that you rear face until at least 2, right? I doubt you will even carry an infant seat around with a one year old.
Recommended perhaps, not required. Also in a matter in fact I have carried a one year old in a car seat before, when I was taking care of my cousin and didn't have a car of my own.
You are correct that it is not required to resurface to 2 years, but of is required to rear face to 1 and 20lbs. However, except for a few extenuating circumstances, forward facing at age 1 is a pretty bad decision. With all the research out there recommending rearfacing as long as possible, I don't understand why you'd knowingly endanger your child.

I don't understand why you assume I'd knowingly endager my child. I'd recommend you stop doing that, but it isn't required for you to do so.

ClandestineX · May 2013

doremi29:
The convertible seats that you move them up to after the infant seat can be rear-facing and most people rf them for awhile. I'm not a soapbox type but you might wanna just read this as an fyi
https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/AAP-Updates-Recommendation-on-Car-Seats.aspx

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