Car seat installation

[Beautiful Disaster]

I think the ambo's do it here. I was wondering when to get it done too. I might just get them to put the base in for me.

[~Hestia~]

Maybe Vic Roads do it too?

[Arimeh]

We got the ambo's to do DS's the day that we took him home from the hospital. Unfortunately because we had never looked at it, we had no idea how to adjust the strap length and couldn't get him in for about 45 minutes - full of swearing, tears, sweat... you get the picture.

Since then, we've just put our own in.. LOL

[leckert]

for the reversible car seat in my car, and the capsule in DH's car, we got the Red Cross to install for us (we hired the capsule through the Red Cross SA). I wasn't keen on installing these ourselves. This changed with when we did the forward facing seats, my car I got a family friend to do it for us (we got the seat off them to start with) and the Red Cross installed DH's car seat when we returned the capsule although it was still reversed. I did the turn for his car, having read the instructions several times and watched how my car seat was installed so I was fairly confident about it. I've since had to take out the car seats to get stuff into each car without DS around so I've re-installed in both cars. BUT I would still get a professional to install the reverse facing seat/capsule, just because baby is such a precious cargo.

[RhiChiChi]

Baby Bunting offer a service (via an independant company)

[human bean]

You could always let your DP put it in himself, then have it checked by whoever you book it in to professionally, and then atleast you'll know if he's got it right or what he needs to do to make it right. I hope that makes sense.

We had free fitting with our seat when we bought it by the guy certified at the shop. We did the above and DH enjoyed gloating when the guy said it was in perfectly.

[buliej]

We had ours professionally installed in both cars (one base only) - one at baby bunting and one by a certified installer. I didn't want to risk getting it wrong.