Pumpkin seat question

Sami0726 · December 2013

Anyone not using the pumpkin seat care seat anymore but using a normal rear facing seat? I should have lifted weights before having her. The seat + LO + me being 5ft tall = a got mess

stephyfaith · December 2013

Pumpkin seat??

[Deleted User] · December 2013

Lots of questions lately.

KMRR86 · December 2013

Melissa 4637 said:
Why don't you just leave the seat in the car and take LO in and out?

This is what I've been doing since lo decided she'd prefer to sit in the stroller and look where we're going.

jackson290721 · December 2013

I never get why people feel like they have to carry the seat around. The child is not glued to it. Just take the kid out and leave the bucket.

Sami0726 · December 2013

She isn't real sturdy sitting up yet so when I take her in and out of the seat I still have to hold it carry her. I don't mind that at all just trying to get a feel in what other do! I do just leave the seat in the car quite a bum it. Doesn't help that she hates her seat

[Deleted User] · December 2013

jackson290721 said:
I never get why people feel like they have to carry the seat around. The child is not glued to it. Just take the kid out and leave the bucket.

Exfreakingxactly.

heatherbrownm · December 2013

Keep bucket in car. Wear baby. Easy peasy.

roashem2008 · December 2013

hplusb said:
Keep bucket in car. Wear baby. Easy peasy.

Yep. I either wear her or prop her up in the cart.

babykk · December 2013

Sami0726 said:

She isn't real sturdy sitting up yet so when I take her in and out of the seat I still have to hold it carry her. I don't mind that at all just trying to get a feel in what other do! I do just leave the seat in the car quite a bum it. Doesn't help that she hates her seat

:-?

heatherbrownm · December 2013

MissConstrued said:
What are you guys doing now that it's winter? DD is just wearing normal clothes because we have a car seat cover that had an attached blanket. We'll probably have to move her in the next month or so and it will still be cold. But I've thought of taking her out of the plastic bucket and have her sit in the cart at target, but can't figure out how to transfer her because it's so cold. Get rid of the cover and just buy her a thin coat? How do you wear baby with your own coat on?

I need answers!

I wrap her up in a blanket and put a hat and sweater on her and then take her in. Then when we get in, I take my coat off and put her in whichever carrier I'm using that day.

jackson290721 · December 2013

Audrey1787 said:

I can't be the only person who thinks this = pumpkin seat

edit for picture fail

haha this was what I was thinking.

jackson290721 · December 2013

And now I want to watch the nightmare before christmas

PrimRoseMama · December 2013

This made me want pumpkin seeds. Dammit! :-?

PrimRoseMama · December 2013

That baby looks horrified, poor thing! :-/

elyse05 · December 2013

jackson290721 said:

I never get why people feel like they have to carry the seat around. The child is not glued to it. Just take the kid out and leave the bucket.

I keep LO in her bucket as long as possible when we are out and about (we have a stroller frame for it that I usually snap it into instead of actually lugging it around). She is happy as long as she is in that bucket! If I'm at a restaurant and take her out- it's OVER and I have a fussy baby on my hands. But she will chill in that bucket for a good hour at least at a restaurant. More if I am walking around the mall or running errands. She loves her bucket so much!

mrshudson618 · December 2013

The only time we consistently take the seat out of the car is at home and that is only because we have two bases but one seat and when I leave it in my car it makes me want to leave if in DHs car and then he takes it to work and we are stuck at home haha.

babyk1228 · December 2013

elyse05 said:

jackson290721 said:

I never get why people feel like they have to carry the seat around. The child is not glued to it. Just take the kid out and leave the bucket.

I keep LO in her bucket as long as possible when we are out and about (we have a stroller frame for it that I usually snap it into instead of actually lugging it around). She is happy as long as she is in that bucket! If I'm at a restaurant and take her out- it's OVER and I have a fussy baby on my hands. But she will chill in that bucket for a good hour at least at a restaurant. More if I am walking around the mall or running errands. She loves her bucket so much!

Oh you are a lucky soul, DS HATES his bucket. Hates, hates, hates. So much that if DH is with me, I usually ride in the back to try and soothe him because he will absolutely cry from point A to point B for zero reason except the bucket, I can't count how many times I have had to pull over to try and get him to stop screaming. It is this hatred for said bucket that really got me into wearing him.. OP, take the kid out and leave the bucket in the car like PPs have said, it's not much different than having a convertible car seat. Wear LO when you're going places, it makes things so simple.

@missconstrued I have a coat that is a little big on me so I put my carrier on under the coat and then put on my coat but leave it unbuttoned. When I get somewhere I put a warm hat on DS and sit in the back seat while I put him in the carrier then I walk into wherever holding my coat closed around us both and just take it off inside. I usually have DS in warm shirt or a onsie with a light jacket over it because he gets super hot in his car seat and also inside because so many places crank the heat and my wool pea coat keeps us both plenty warm getting from the car to inside.

EagleWife · December 2013

@Audrey1787, thank you. Exactly what I thought of with this title. Poor little dude.

Sami0726 · December 2013

Laurendag said:

Sami0726 said:

She isn't real sturdy sitting up yet so when I take her in and out of the seat I still have to hold it carry her. I don't mind that at all just trying to get a feel in what other do! I do just leave the seat in the car quite a bum it. Doesn't help that she hates her seat

What?

I need to stop typing 1/2 asleep. Sorry ladies!

Sami0726 · December 2013

Audrey1787 said:
I can't be the only person who thinks this = pumpkin seat

edit for picture fail

Too funny, my family just always called them "pumpkin seats" not sure why.

[Deleted User] · December 2013

They call car seats...pumpkin seats?

@yaybaby01 my son is the same way, I too sit in the back seat

he's been getting better about it though.

ceechie · December 2013

I think I like pumpkin seat better then "the bucket". It's like I'm toting around little Cinderellas. I'm into it.
My dd1 hates the pumpkin. We switched her at 3 mos to a convertible and she instantly stopped screaming. We had it installed at the store and the ride home was amazing. Even dh teared up bc she was finally happy in the car.

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Myrrhaj · December 2013

Sami0726 said:
Anyone not using the pumpkin seat care seat anymore but using a normal rear facing seat? I should have lifted weights before having her. The seat + LO + me being 5ft tall = a got mess

@Sami0726 Are you from the Midwest? Pumpkin seat is a pretty typical Midwest term for an infant carrier/car seat.

Sami0726 · December 2013

Myrrhaj said:

Sami0726 said:
Anyone not using the pumpkin seat care seat anymore but using a normal rear facing seat? I should have lifted weights before having her. The seat + LO + me being 5ft tall = a got mess
@Sami0726 Are you from the Midwest? Pumpkin seat is a pretty typical Midwest term for an infant carrier/car seat.

@Myrrhaj, I am ! Hoosier

heatherbrownm · December 2013

Myrrhaj said:

Anyone not using the pumpkin seat care seat anymore but using a normal rear facing seat? I should have lifted weights before having her. The seat + LO + me being 5ft tall = a got mess
@Sami0726 Are you from the Midwest? Pumpkin seat is a pretty typical Midwest term for an infant carrier/car seat.

Just throwing this out there: I'm from the Midwest too, but I've never heard it called a pumpkin seat..

Muffin379 · December 2013

Trying the convertible seats tomorrow. Just put them in SO's car tonight. Hoping DD will not scream on her next car ride. They look so comfy! Guess I will be hip carrying the twins into the stores now.

chiboo9 · December 2013

hplusb said:

Myrrhaj said:

Sami0726 said:
Anyone not using the pumpkin seat care seat anymore but using a normal rear facing seat? I should have lifted weights before having her. The seat + LO + me being 5ft tall = a got mess
@Sami0726 Are you from the Midwest? Pumpkin seat is a pretty typical Midwest term for an infant carrier/car seat.

Just throwing this out there: I'm from the Midwest too, but I've never heard it called a pumpkin seat..

Samesies. I'm in Chicagoland and have never heard of it as a pumpkin seat.

Sami0726 · December 2013

Well now that we have established that "pumpkin" seat is a very rare name.. I put her in a high chair at dinner and she did wonderful. I think I am going to get the convertible seat. Convertible seat... Is that the correct name ?!

gotta love Hoosier lingo!!!

Myrrhaj · December 2013

chiboo9 said:

hplusb said:

Myrrhaj said:

Sami0726 said:
Anyone not using the pumpkin seat care seat anymore but using a normal rear facing seat? I should have lifted weights before having her. The seat + LO + me being 5ft tall = a got mess
@Sami0726 Are you from the Midwest? Pumpkin seat is a pretty typical Midwest term for an infant carrier/car seat.

Just throwing this out there: I'm from the Midwest too, but I've never heard it called a pumpkin seat..

Samesies. I'm in Chicagoland and have never heard of it as a pumpkin seat.

Whatevs. :P

I've only heard 'pumpkin seat' used to describe a plastic bucket once before, and it came from the mouth of a friend from Michigan. She told me that it was a regional expression, so that's what I based my assumption off of. Apparently it's usage is limited to a select few in the Midwest. Learn something new everyday....

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