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post #101 of 160
4/24/08 at 2:00am
I just gotta say that this board is amazing. Amazing that a mama will go this far to keep her baby safest by still rear facing him, and amazing that a Dad in Sweden is offering to help out! If it were me, I would be getting the seat from Sweden. I honestly had considered doing it myself, even though my kid wasn't a special case like this one. My kid ended up rear facing until about 2.5. Though I gotta say, we also had a car seat tech at a check-up try to convince us to forward face him. He was getting close, but still had 3 lbs to go, and they had never seen an extended rear facer like us. I told him, no way, we weigh him every week, and will turn him at 33 lbs. Thankfully the head tech told him we were right on the money!
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post #102 of 160
4/24/08 at 2:44am
Thanks for the measurements! It sounds like I won't be getting one after all!!
post #103 of 160
4/24/08 at 5:05pm
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Originally Posted by an_aurora View Post
Thanks for the measurements! It sounds like I won't be getting one after all!!
YW! I was very surprised by the measurements, I thought it would have slightly higher top slots.
post #104 of 160
4/24/08 at 5:14pm
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Originally Posted by alysmommy2004 View Post
YW! I was very surprised by the measurements, I thought it would have slightly higher top slots.
You would certainly think so!
post #105 of 160
4/30/08 at 9:00pm
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Originally Posted by Adventuredad View Post
I glanced through the post and noticed you might want to get a rear facing seat from Sweden. I'm a car seat safety loving father who has lived half his life in US and now reside in Sweden. I can probably help you out with getting a new Swedish seat. The cost is likely to be far less than $700-850 USD but I can find out for sure in case you're interested.
Wow -- thanks for the offer! Sorry for the slow response. I've been a little out of it. I would definitely be interested in what you could find out regarding price. I'll need to measure out whether it would fit in our car as well. If you had measurements, particularly of how deep these car seats are, I could check if it's feasible. (ETA: By deep, I mean will it fit on our shallow back seat in the middle behind our front seats, which are set all the way back -- DH & I are tall.) It would be wonderful to have an advocate to navigate this!

Thanks so much -- I really appreciate it. :

The good news is, DS has slowed down his weight gain now that he's finally starting to crawl (almost 11 months), so maybe he will stay at this weight for awhile ore even lose a little. But if you don't mind looking into it, it would be great to have that option, particularly if he keeps growing. I like the idea of extended RFing, for sure.
post #106 of 160
4/30/08 at 9:15pm
Oh -- I just saw there's a 6th page! Ha ha. Well, I'll go try out those measurements from alysmommy2004. Thanks!
post #107 of 160
5/1/08 at 2:33am
I'm still trying to talk DP into letting me put all kids in the car with their carseat in "forward facing" position on the van bench... then turning the bench to face out the back window... they can face the back of the van till they drive!!!
post #108 of 160
5/1/08 at 2:53am
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Originally Posted by want2bmoms View Post
I'm still trying to talk DP into letting me put all kids in the car with their carseat in "forward facing" position on the van bench... then turning the bench to face out the back window... they can face the back of the van till they drive!!!
I'm not sure you can do this. I don't exactly know why but maybe the techs here can shed some light on this?
post #109 of 160
5/1/08 at 8:20am
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Originally Posted by want2bmoms View Post
I'm still trying to talk DP into letting me put all kids in the car with their carseat in "forward facing" position on the van bench... then turning the bench to face out the back window... they can face the back of the van till they drive!!!
You can't do that. It's expressly forbidden by all CRS manufacturers to put CRS on rear facing vehicle seats.
post #110 of 160
5/1/08 at 12:17pm
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Originally Posted by Alki Mama View Post
Oh -- I just saw there's a 6th page! Ha ha. Well, I'll go try out those measurements from alysmommy2004. Thanks!

You might want to poke around carseat.org. She is a member over there and probably posted pics and info. I'm not over there, so I can't say for sure that she did, but it's something she would do. She posted it on another board we're on together. She also mentioned that Adventure Dad helped her out some.
post #111 of 160
5/1/08 at 4:01pm
poo. it seamed like such a good idea.
post #112 of 160
5/1/08 at 4:19pm
It does, doesn't it
post #113 of 160
5/1/08 at 4:22pm
Generally speaking, when it comes to carseat installation and use, if you come up with a really great idea that no one has thought of before -- you can't do it. I know. I'm no fun. Carseats are tested under specific circumstances and can only be used in those same circumstances; otherwise, you're basically being the tester and that's not what we want to do with our kids.
post #114 of 160
5/1/08 at 9:24pm
but why.... I guess my question comes from the idea that there are full size vans that have two FF benches and one RF bench that looks out the rear window... Wouldn't it make sense to put baby on that seat? I mean, the seat is installed by the manufacturer, so it's supposed to be that way, and the carseat will fit on the banch just as well as it would fit on the two nearer the front of the van.... So it just seams like it would work.

I didn't know that it was expressly forbidden though...
post #115 of 160
5/2/08 at 12:08am
In those cars the manual says not to do that. And I believe that most carseat manuals say to only install on forward facing seats. I think it's because they are not crash tested rearfacing installed forward facing (or however you would describe it), so if you were to do it you would be using your children as test subjects.
post #116 of 160
5/2/08 at 9:14am
I just double checked my car seat manuals, and they don't say anything about not installing on a backwards facing seat or anything like that.
post #117 of 160
5/2/08 at 9:57am
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Originally Posted by the_lissa View Post
I just double checked my car seat manuals, and they don't say anything about not installing on a backwards facing seat or anything like that.
Check again. Every manual for every car seat produced in the US has the exact same warning.
post #118 of 160
5/2/08 at 10:02am
She's in Canada.
post #119 of 160
5/2/08 at 10:21am
Well then I cannot comment on Canada
post #120 of 160
5/2/08 at 10:25am
I'm not saying that person is wrong. I don't have one of those cars or vans, so it isn't something I am going to do.
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