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SO convertible carseats - do you tether?

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We just installed our convertible carseat over the weekend. The manual recommended that we tether the seat. Do you tether your rear facing convertible car seat?
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Re: SO convertible carseats - do you tether?

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    LauraT25 said:
    What seat do you have?

    We don't tether our Radian, I have been meaning to but we have been moving it around quite a bit (and are actually currently using our infant seat again).  Once we are done settling into the house and buying furniture (oy) I will.
    We have the Britax Boulevard. I just don't ever recall seeing rear facing car seats tethered in cars. Maybe I need to peek in windows more closely. 
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  • wesleycrusherwesleycrusher member
    no, not for RF
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  • Sillygirl85Sillygirl85 member
    We do not tether. I purposely chose seats that would not need to be tethered RF.
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  • Sillygirl85Sillygirl85 member
    edited August 2013
     @LauraT25 I thought I had read that there are some that do.
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  • sdb421sdb421 member
    edited August 2013
    No, we don't. I too am a car seat safety freak, but I've read mixed reviews on the necessity of tethering RF. We are on our 3rd britax boulevard and I didn't RF tether my older two kids either. Now, extended rear facing (my twins RF until just over 2.5, which was when recommendations were until 1), staying in a 5pt harness as long as possible (plan to 5 pt harness until age 5-6), those things I'm a stickler for, but tethering RFing ends up taking up space that I use to store things (coats, cart cover, etc) and also makes it so that my older kids can't crawl under the car seat, if they need to get out that side, so we don't do it.
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  • KraneRNKraneRN member
    Yup we tether our britax boulevard rf.
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    Yes we do.
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  • hilsy85hilsy85 member
    I don't think ours can be tethered rear facing...it can forward facing and I intend to do that when we turn him.

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