Thursday, August 27, 2015

Awhile back I wrote this post on car seat safety. Today I want to discuss what happens after the age of 2. By now everyone knows, I hope, that children are to be left rear facing in their car seats until age 2. What you may not know is that it's actually best to keep your child rear-facing as long as possible. It's safer. Period. The ability to rear-face for an extended period of time comes down to having the right car seat. The world of car seats is SO overwhelming and the sad reality is that all seats are not created equal. When my babies are infants I use an infant carrier type seat (I love the Chicco Keyfit 30 ). Once my babies reach the height or weight limit for that seat I then invest in a convertible car seat. Not only are all car seats different, but car seat companies are constantly tweaking things and coming out with new models. It's important to do your car seat research prior to buying a new seat, every time. Just because you loved "such and such...

Graco Size4Me 70 Review

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Labels: brittlynn / convertible car seat / graco size4me 70 / kye / review

When I was pregnant with Kye we registered for everything under the sun. I did some research on things but for the most part we just went with what seemed to be the most popular choices. For his infant car seat we had the Chicco Keyfit it came as part of our travel system and we bought an extra base for Zach's car. We LOVE that car seat. We used it for Kye until he outgrew it and we also have used it for Brittlynn. It's set to expire so we plan to go ahead and sell the seat and base at the next kids sale but we WILL be buying a new Chicco Keyfit for babies #3 and #4 (and more?) to use. Also while pregnant with Kye we registered for a TON of stuff. We were SO blessed with a million baby showers and ended up having over $1,000 worth of returns ( remember this post??? ). We had so much money to spend at Toys R Us that day that we went ahead and bought both of Kye's "big boy" convertible car seats. I did some research before buying them...I researched like EVE...

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