Car Seats

[Taurean]

Ah, gotcha now. Yeah, the Turn-A-Tot would make life a lot easier in that case. They're a great car seat anyway so not such a bad outcome.

[Rommy'sMummy]

Hi Ladies!

I have found the best thing for us to do is to go to the RAA (whatever the equivalent is in your state) and talk to them about the safest seats. They will also be able to check your car to see if it fits well and what is going to work best for you and bubs. We always buy our car seats there and they fit them for us properly. I have always had really good advice from them. DS is very small for his age due to health issues and so is hard to fit ie only 6kg at 12 months old and now weighs 16kg and is five next month. That makes professional fitting (child to seat and seat to car) really valuable for us.

With this bub coming we will be getting a capsule for 4-6 months from Red Cross. You can hire them for only $10 month. They cost aroun $200-$300 to buy. Then we will go to RAA to get the next size seat and have them fit it in the car for us. I was going to get one of those "travel system" pram/car seat combo things as they seem like such a sensible idea. The ladies at RAA then pointed out that they can only be called "travel systems" and not capsules as they aren't deep enough to qualify for that status. Just stuff I wouldn't have know about and am now glad I do.

We have a Safe-n-Sound MaxiRider in the everyday car and a Pegasus now in hubbys car.

Confusing thought isnt it?

Rachel