When my first DD was born, we had a eddie bauer carrier. I thought it was the best, and that Layla just hated the car. However, she was about 4 months old when we installed the britax marathon, rear facing. She slept for over 4 hours. It was a lot more cushy and comftorable. I would ditch the carrier for a long trip, and opt for the more comfy seat. My parents live 6 hours away, and we've already went twice to see them with new DD, Maggie. She's only 8 weeks old. We're going to switch from carrier to britax roundabout for next trip.
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I'll probably go w/ the britax then. There's always a chance, she'll fall asleep in the cushiness of it. The only downside about it is I can't reach around to touch her as easily in it. We'll put her in the middle though, so ds can at least hold her hand.
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Thanks!
My ds hates the carseat, too. He's now 5 mo. old and STILL hates it. ARg!!! We have a Graco Safeseat (it's infant, but on the bigger size because it will hold up to 30lbs) and recently got a Britax Roundabout because we had a car accident. I like the Britax in that he can sit up straighter (and therefore look around) and it's softer. The only bad thing is that when (this is rarely!) I get him to sleep in the carseat I find that in the Britax he has less head support and his head just kind of hangs down
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So, it probably doesn't matter which you use in terms of keeping baby happy. If your dc is anything like mine you'll be working hard the whole trip!!!
We travelled so much last month and stopping to breastfeed frequently wasn't even keeping him happy that I resorted to giving a bottle of EBM or formula when I ran out and that worked. Ugh...I wasn't happy about having to do that, but it was that or my sanity! It didn't help that our car got wrecked on the 2nd of 3 trips....
Good luck! Maybe you'll get lucky and kiddo will sleep a good chunk. Those streaks of good luck have come to us on occassion!
We travelled so much last month and stopping to breastfeed frequently wasn't even keeping him happy that I resorted to giving a bottle of EBM or formula when I ran out and that worked. Ugh...I wasn't happy about having to do that, but it was that or my sanity! It didn't help that our car got wrecked on the 2nd of 3 trips....
Good luck! Maybe you'll get lucky and kiddo will sleep a good chunk. Those streaks of good luck have come to us on occassion!
I'm worried about the head thing too. i noticed it wobbles more in the britax. I have a head stabilizer that I could put in, but I worry that the straps won't fit like they should. Thanks for the luck, who knows, maybe it won't be as awful as I'm expecting...
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Yikes about the wreck, I hope everyone was ok.
Deanna~I usally sling dd too, even if she's asleep, she wakes up as soon as we put the carrier down. At least on the way down and back, I don't want to stop unless she's awake.
Yikes about the wreck, I hope everyone was ok.
Deanna~I usally sling dd too, even if she's asleep, she wakes up as soon as we put the carrier down. At least on the way down and back, I don't want to stop unless she's awake.
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