We had a capsule and recently had to upgrade to a convertible car seat so that Connor could stay rear facing....the capsule went to 12 kilos and he was around the 9 kilo mark but outgrew it length wise.....I think the max height for the capsules is around 70cms or a just a bit over that. So to keep him rearfacing we have had to get the convertible seat which he can stay rear facing in height wise for much longer...he is 9.5 kilos at 12 months and 75cms and height/weight wise might even get to 2 years before turning.
So knowing what happened to us, if you don't intend to use the capsule as a travel system I probably wouldn't buy one... if you want to rear face till the maximum weight you will still need a second seat down the track.....unless you have short kids, in which case the capsule might work.
hmm it is the height thing & the weight of the capsule itself that is making me re think it all. My kids have all been on the slightly above average for height. I mean both me & DH have height behind us so Im not expecting to many short genes LOL...
Might have a play with the rear facing seat tomorrow & see just how it all sits before I make up my mind. For all I know it will either fit perfectly with no issue at all with getting around it or it wont work at all & I will have to rethink the whole thing!!
yeah it is all a bit of a jigsaw puzzle I imagine, fitting them all in!
The new tilt and adjust meridian seat apparently has quite a high height limit rearfacing if extended rear facing is really important to you...the head rest has heaps of adjustments unlike the three or so on the older model car seats, I have the platinum tilt and adjust so same adjustments....Connor could stay reafacing for ages...our problem will be we have a small car so it has had to go behind the passenger seat with the passenger seat fully forward...if he grows too much more the person in the front seat will be sitting on the bonnet! LOL!
Could you put the baby in the backseat with 4yr old, and 2yr in the middle, in the middle? It would mean noone had to try and get around the baby seat in the middle row, because it would be an upright car seat, not laying down?
We are trying to sort our car out too!!!
We'll have a 2yr, 3yr and 4 yr, and newborn.. so 4 car seats!! Plus the 3 big kids.....
We are putting the baby, 2yr and 3 yr across the back seat.. and the 4 yr booster in the middle row, in the middle.. so when we have 2 big kids as well, they just jump in each side...
I use a sling, so will sling bubba, put all the kids in, then baby last.... and when getting out, baby first in sling, then the others....
Its all sounding so complicated... I think I need the big old van back... we wont even fit in this car now, so we'll have to take two when we all go somewhere together!!
I only had three kid to contend with in my car and used the unity capsule, dd stayed in till 21 months and 10.5kg and about 80cm. She only game out because she is an escape artist and figured out she could hold her shoulders in and get leverage with her feet to push herself out of the harness.
I had her behind driver, middle seat was for my 7yr old no child seat and my 5yr old in her maxirider. The base is quiet easy for people to climb over.
I brought it for my last and absolutey loved it. Especially for school drop off and pick up.
Is there a shop close to you that sells them and you can go and try it out and see if it does all fit in and then it will just be the height issue that you need to think about. When we were trying to work out the configuration of car seats for this new bub Baby Bunting down here were really helpful with it all and gave us some option and ideas on car seats that we hadn't thought of.
I called my g/f, who used one like the one you want.. she couldnt use it after about 6 months, it was too heavy with bub in it to carry it in and out all the time.. she had to get it up into a bigish car though...Maybe go into a shop and play with one first??
With the other kids to take with you, it might be really hard to use??
Im interested to hear about this too! we are tossing up the capsule versus convertable carseat too. What car did you end up getting Effjay? We are still looking at cars, we dont want 3 kids in a row though we are going to put our 5yr old in the back seat with booster.
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