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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