where did you position your carseats?

[aussienic]

I always had the youngest in the middle.. the next child (size wise) moved to the passenger side then the other one to the drivers side

[Glamourcide]

I had this dilemma when I was expecting Squirtle. Munchie had been in the middle since birth, but is forward-facing now so we put her carseat behind the passenger seat (so that when we're getting her in and out of the car she enters and exits on the footpath rather than facing traffic, kwim?), and the baby goes in the middle because DH's legs are so long he can't put the driver's seat forward enough to fit a rearward-facing seat behind him. When she is forward-facing we will move her behind the driver's seat, or switch around so that Munchie goes behind the driver's seat - she will be a bit older and hopefully more capable of entering and exiting a car when there's traffic nearby, kwim? In my mind, the youngest goes in the middle, then kerbside, if that makes sense. It was the way my parents did it, so I guess I just follow on from that.

At first I was concerned about having a newborn within arm's reach of Munchie (who likes to touch things and won't listen to 'no'), but the only problem we've had so far is Munchie stealing Squirt's dummy when she forgets to bring her own. Squirt likes sitting next to her big sister and they often 'talk' to each other while I'm concentrating on driving. It's nice, a bit of a bonding exercise for them

[berrme]

I have the rear facing seat behind the passenger seat so DH can put the drivers seat back enough for him to drive. DS1's booster is usually behind the drivers seat so he can't poke DS2, but gets moved to the middle on the rare occasion that we want to squeeze a third person in the back.

[JellyBean]

We used to have DS in the middle, but as he started getting heavier we moved him to the passenger side away from the oncoming traffic. I have fitted the capsule for the next bub in the middle, as I figure its safer, and that way we can still give someone a lift in the back seat. We wouldn't be able to have an adult sit in the back (without difficulty getting in and out!) if the seats were on opposite sides to each other.
I was worried that DS would be able to reach bubs and annoy him/her - but it seems when he is strapped in he wont be able to reach bubs face at all - and we figure bubs will benefit from being able to look at DS and visa versa.

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[sweetpea678]

With my first she was in the middle, when number two came along, she was in the middle in capsule and dd1 behind passanger front faceing, then when they were older had on either side, for my sanity.

Now with dd3, have dd2 behind passanger in maxirider(booster, dd1 in middle and bub behind driver still in unity capsule at 15 months. Rational was the older two get in and out on their own and I wanted them getting out on the kerb side. I get bub out so can look out for cars etc.

[Laranna]

We've got DS behind the passenger seat. We couldn't fit the seat in the middle on the back seat because the seat is raised slightly. When bubs arrives, we'll move DS behind the drivers seat. He's going into a new car seat and we'll turn his old one back around and bubs can go in there staying behind the passenger seat.

[feeb]

We have been dissucsisng this recently as DH wants to put baby behind drivers eat and DS where he is behind passanger but you have pointed out a point we never thought of is that DH puts seat back a long way when driving as he is tall and this cant be done well with rear facing car seat!!