Re: car seat? With the DBB?

[Guest guest]

Reid-

What car seat do you have? We used for our son an Eddie Bauer infant

carrier(part of his travel system-ie stroller/car seat combo) and

the Eddie Bauer 3 in 1 car seat-ie it converts all the way up to the

booster. They both had a 5 point harness but gave david plenty of

room with his shoes on. I love the 3 in 1 as we just got to switch

it to forward facing and it works great. Many long car trips and

never a cranky baby in either seat.

Hope this helps!

Kathleen

mom to 1 year old!! bcf fab 14/7

> Need help! What is the best car seat to get with the DBB? Our

child is

> a month a old and apparently the car seat we have isn't going to

work

> with the bar. What works?

>

> reid

[Guest guest]

We had the same problem, and opted to just get convertible car seats

for our cars.

We got the Graco ComfortSport for one car, and the Evenflo Triumph 5

Comfort Touch for the other.

Both work great so far, and we've had them for several months.

By the way, the ComfortSport comes in many different models. We opted

to get the more reasonably priced one which was around $80 at Babies R

Us. We got the Triumph at Sears for $109, I think. The Triumph has

more padding, but the ComfortSport is much easier for adjusting the

straps.

Both were easy enough to install - and one of our cars is older and

doesn't have the latch system.

Oh, one more thing, the buckles on both are really nice because they

are super easy to use, quick and don't get twisted. Those were key

decision makers for us because we've used others (for our neices) that

have been horrible to figure out, got twisted easily, and took way too

long to buckle an unbuckle. One of the others our neice had the big

padded restraint that comes over the head and sits over the lap. We

didn't like that either becuase the straps were more difficult to get

over her head (she's 1), and it made it more difficult to give her toys

to play with in the car.

Good luck!

> Need help! What is the best car seat to get with the DBB? Our child

is

> a month a old and apparently the car seat we have isn't going to work

> with the bar. What works?

>

> reid

[Guest guest]

How does it not work? We have a Graco Snugride infant seat and haven't had a

problem. Though dd does have one leg bent a bit, but she can pick her legs up

and move them. Sometimes if she positions her feet just right she has one leg

hanging, lol, but she doesn't seem to mind...

Marcia

car seat? With the DBB?

Need help! What is the best car seat to get with the DBB? Our child is

a month a old and apparently the car seat we have isn't going to work

with the bar. What works?

reid

[Guest guest]

Can you take your baby in the bar to the store and sit him/her in various seats

to test? I never had a problem with it, I think I have a Cosco or something - I

dunno, it was a Wal-Mart seat, nothing special. Eventually his legs didn't both

sit flat in the bottom, one might be propped up on the edge of the seat but this

is only temporary, kwim?

s.

Re: car seat? With the DBB?

Its the Graco Infant Snugseat.... should that work?

The nurse at the doctors office said it probably wouldn't work.

I would definitely believe people on here before her though

frogabog wrote:

Hi Reid,

What carseat do you have now? a 1mo old child should be a bar no

bigger than 8 " . My daughter was a big girl (small girl now though,

at 2-1/2) at birth, almost 10 pounds and 12d post dates so she had an

8 " bar at first but most babies use a 6 " bar at this age. It fit

just fine in the carseat. Unless the seat is very narrow it

shouldn't be a problem. We had to buy the narrowest seat we could

find because it had to be sandwiched between a gigantic Britax Super

Elite and a Britax Roundabout. As it was, it barely fit. It was a

Graco, new in 2003. can't remember the model but it is the one that

attaches to their stroller travel systems.

So I'm curious why you are thinking you need a new seat? Did they

give you the bar already to check if it'll fit? I found actually

that the bar and shoes didn't sit inside the seat much at all, at

least not down in the narrow part. Whatever the case, if this is

your first child you may be surprised to learn that these infant

seats rarely get to be used much past 6mo's for the average child.

They not only have weight limits, but length limits and babies tend

to grow too tall for them well before the first year is up anyway. So

if you're going to buy a new seat, make sure you need to do it

because even if it's wider and can accomodate the FAB, you may have

to discard it and go with a convertible seat soon anyway. I do like

the infant seats, and wouldn't want to use a convertible on a baby

that age because it's so nice to be able to carry them asleep from

the car to wherever. But if there's much chance that baby is going

to be 26-27 " long any time soon you may just want to look into a good

convertible seat that'll last a long time.

As far as recommendations for convertible seats, I cannot recommend

the Britax seats more. The new Britax Wizard and Marathon seats are

rated to 60 pounds which should take your child up to and through the

age of 4 or 5, perhaps longer. Most if not all the other convertible

seats are only rated for 40 pounds. So you'll end up buying a

booster seat for the child when that time comes whereas if your seat

is rated to 60 pounds you can keep the child in the 5 point harness

that much longer. For me, that's a big deal and while I don't have

the 60 pound seats, I did buy that gigantic Super Elite because I

simply do not like the idea of a 3 or 4 year old in a regular

shoulder belt. If I had to do it all over again, I would buy the 60

pound seats in a heartbeat. They weren't available when I bought my

convertible seats 5 and 7 years ago though. Britax does make seats

better than anyone else IMO, and they're nice and wide and padded and

totally FAB/DBB friendly. Amongst many other things that make them

just better and nicer. Yes, a little more expensive but well worth

it. And if you figure in not needing to ever buy another carseat for

your child it almost comes out to a wash.

OK, that's my recommendation. :-*

Kori

At 05:13 AM 8/30/2005, you wrote:

>Need help! What is the best car seat to get with the DBB? Our child is

>a month a old and apparently the car seat we have isn't going to work

>with the bar. What works?

>

>reid

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

we have a graco that is like a baby carrier...he is just about out of it now

@ 6 mo

[Guest guest]

Its the Graco Infant Snugseat.... should that work?

The nurse at the doctors office said it probably wouldn't work.

I would definitely believe people on here before her though

frogabog wrote:

Hi Reid,

What carseat do you have now? a 1mo old child should be a bar no

bigger than 8 " . My daughter was a big girl (small girl now though,

at 2-1/2) at birth, almost 10 pounds and 12d post dates so she had an

8 " bar at first but most babies use a 6 " bar at this age. It fit

just fine in the carseat. Unless the seat is very narrow it

shouldn't be a problem. We had to buy the narrowest seat we could

find because it had to be sandwiched between a gigantic Britax Super

Elite and a Britax Roundabout. As it was, it barely fit. It was a

Graco, new in 2003. can't remember the model but it is the one that

attaches to their stroller travel systems.

So I'm curious why you are thinking you need a new seat? Did they

give you the bar already to check if it'll fit? I found actually

that the bar and shoes didn't sit inside the seat much at all, at

least not down in the narrow part. Whatever the case, if this is

your first child you may be surprised to learn that these infant

seats rarely get to be used much past 6mo's for the average child.

They not only have weight limits, but length limits and babies tend

to grow too tall for them well before the first year is up anyway. So

if you're going to buy a new seat, make sure you need to do it

because even if it's wider and can accomodate the FAB, you may have

to discard it and go with a convertible seat soon anyway. I do like

the infant seats, and wouldn't want to use a convertible on a baby

that age because it's so nice to be able to carry them asleep from

the car to wherever. But if there's much chance that baby is going

to be 26-27 " long any time soon you may just want to look into a good

convertible seat that'll last a long time.

As far as recommendations for convertible seats, I cannot recommend

the Britax seats more. The new Britax Wizard and Marathon seats are

rated to 60 pounds which should take your child up to and through the

age of 4 or 5, perhaps longer. Most if not all the other convertible

seats are only rated for 40 pounds. So you'll end up buying a

booster seat for the child when that time comes whereas if your seat

is rated to 60 pounds you can keep the child in the 5 point harness

that much longer. For me, that's a big deal and while I don't have

the 60 pound seats, I did buy that gigantic Super Elite because I

simply do not like the idea of a 3 or 4 year old in a regular

shoulder belt. If I had to do it all over again, I would buy the 60

pound seats in a heartbeat. They weren't available when I bought my

convertible seats 5 and 7 years ago though. Britax does make seats

better than anyone else IMO, and they're nice and wide and padded and

totally FAB/DBB friendly. Amongst many other things that make them

just better and nicer. Yes, a little more expensive but well worth

it. And if you figure in not needing to ever buy another carseat for

your child it almost comes out to a wash.

OK, that's my recommendation. :-*

Kori

At 05:13 AM 8/30/2005, you wrote:

>Need help! What is the best car seat to get with the DBB? Our child is

>a month a old and apparently the car seat we have isn't going to work

>with the bar. What works?

>

>reid

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

My son has a 14 " bar and still sits in his car seat no probs. It is just a

normal car seat I didn't even look at buying a special one. He used to fit

into his baby seat also that was attached to the pushchair which was a

Mothercare one also not special I can't really see how it can be a prob

unless there is a bar in the middle or extremely narrow at the end.

Rach, Steve & Connor

-- Re: car seat? With the DBB?

Its the Graco Infant Snugseat.... should that work?

The nurse at the doctors office said it probably wouldn't work.

I would definitely believe people on here before her though

frogabog wrote:

Hi Reid,

What carseat do you have now? a 1mo old child should be a bar no

bigger than 8 " . My daughter was a big girl (small girl now though,

at 2-1/2) at birth, almost 10 pounds and 12d post dates so she had an

8 " bar at first but most babies use a 6 " bar at this age. It fit

just fine in the carseat. Unless the seat is very narrow it

shouldn't be a problem. We had to buy the narrowest seat we could

find because it had to be sandwiched between a gigantic Britax Super

Elite and a Britax Roundabout. As it was, it barely fit. It was a

Graco, new in 2003. can't remember the model but it is the one that

attaches to their stroller travel systems.

So I'm curious why you are thinking you need a new seat? Did they

give you the bar already to check if it'll fit? I found actually

that the bar and shoes didn't sit inside the seat much at all, at

least not down in the narrow part. Whatever the case, if this is

your first child you may be surprised to learn that these infant

seats rarely get to be used much past 6mo's for the average child.

They not only have weight limits, but length limits and babies tend

to grow too tall for them well before the first year is up anyway. So

if you're going to buy a new seat, make sure you need to do it

because even if it's wider and can accomodate the FAB, you may have

to discard it and go with a convertible seat soon anyway. I do like

the infant seats, and wouldn't want to use a convertible on a baby

that age because it's so nice to be able to carry them asleep from

the car to wherever. But if there's much chance that baby is going

to be 26-27 " long any time soon you may just want to look into a good

convertible seat that'll last a long time.

As far as recommendations for convertible seats, I cannot recommend

the Britax seats more. The new Britax Wizard and Marathon seats are

rated to 60 pounds which should take your child up to and through the

age of 4 or 5, perhaps longer. Most if not all the other convertible

seats are only rated for 40 pounds. So you'll end up buying a

booster seat for the child when that time comes whereas if your seat

is rated to 60 pounds you can keep the child in the 5 point harness

that much longer. For me, that's a big deal and while I don't have

the 60 pound seats, I did buy that gigantic Super Elite because I

simply do not like the idea of a 3 or 4 year old in a regular

shoulder belt. If I had to do it all over again, I would buy the 60

pound seats in a heartbeat. They weren't available when I bought my

convertible seats 5 and 7 years ago though. Britax does make seats

better than anyone else IMO, and they're nice and wide and padded and

totally FAB/DBB friendly. Amongst many other things that make them

just better and nicer. Yes, a little more expensive but well worth

it. And if you figure in not needing to ever buy another carseat for

your child it almost comes out to a wash.

OK, that's my recommendation. :-*

Kori

At 05:13 AM 8/30/2005, you wrote:

>Need help! What is the best car seat to get with the DBB? Our child is

>a month a old and apparently the car seat we have isn't going to work

>with the bar. What works?

>

>reid

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Reid-

You should be fine with that car seat-the outside width is 17inches

and inside width is 13 inches. My son is 1 and his bar is set at

9inches.

Hope this helps!

Kathleen

> >Need help! What is the best car seat to get with the DBB? Our

child is

> >a month a old and apparently the car seat we have isn't going to

work

> >with the bar. What works?

> >

> >reid

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

It all depends on how long your child is. Our son wouldn't fit in

his infant carseat. It was fine for short trips, but we ended up

getting the convertible seat right away for the car we drove the

most, and then shortly after got another for out other car.

Also, it wasn't the width of his legs that was the problem at first,

it was the angle of the shoes. His legs would fit fine, but his feet

wouldn't. I tried blankets under his feet, but just didn't think it

looked all that comfortable. That was the biggest issue for us.

> >Need help! What is the best car seat to get with the DBB? Our

child is

> >a month a old and apparently the car seat we have isn't going to

work

> >with the bar. What works?

> >

> >reid

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

We had the same issue with the infant car seat that's part

of the Graco Metrolite Travel System - the combined length

of bar+feet was longer than the width of the carrier at

the bottom. We still use the carrier in restaurant highchairs,

etc. But we switched to the Britax Roundabout (on hand

from Lily's older sister Tessa who had just gone into

the Britax Parkway booster) as soon as Lily went in the

Ponseti/ FAB. I wholeheartedly second Kori's praise

for the Britax seats. They are very well made and relatively

easy to install. I wish they had been making the versions

rated to 60lbs when we had our first child.

Kim

> > >Need help! What is the best car seat to get with the DBB? Our

> child is

> > >a month a old and apparently the car seat we have isn't going

to

> work

> > >with the bar. What works?

> > >

> > >reid

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

[Guest guest]

Very likely so. I couldn't say for sure, but very few people have

had issues fitting into the infant seats. What has happened however

is that babies are put into bars that are too long. Thus they don't

fit well in the seats. Just make sure that the distance between the

heels is shoulder width, and no more. The bar length should be

somewhere between bolt to bolt and heel to heel, whatever works for

your child. But no more, and no less as it's uncomfortble and can

cause the feet to slip out of the shoes. Do you have a copy of the

tips for the FAB? It's in the files section here but LMK if you need

it and I'll send the files to you directly.

talk to you soon!

Kori

At 05:30 AM 8/31/2005, you wrote:

>Its the Graco Infant Snugseat.... should that work?

>

>The nurse at the doctors office said it probably wouldn't work.

>

>I would definitely believe people on here before her though

>

>frogabog wrote:

>Hi Reid,

>

>What carseat do you have now? a 1mo old child should be a bar no

>bigger than 8 " . My daughter was a big girl (small girl now though,

>at 2-1/2) at birth, almost 10 pounds and 12d post dates so she had an

>8 " bar at first but most babies use a 6 " bar at this age. It fit

>just fine in the carseat. Unless the seat is very narrow it

>shouldn't be a problem. We had to buy the narrowest seat we could

>find because it had to be sandwiched between a gigantic Britax Super

>Elite and a Britax Roundabout. As it was, it barely fit. It was a

>Graco, new in 2003. can't remember the model but it is the one that

>attaches to their stroller travel systems.

>

>So I'm curious why you are thinking you need a new seat? Did they

>give you the bar already to check if it'll fit? I found actually

>that the bar and shoes didn't sit inside the seat much at all, at

>least not down in the narrow part. Whatever the case, if this is

>your first child you may be surprised to learn that these infant

>seats rarely get to be used much past 6mo's for the average child.

>They not only have weight limits, but length limits and babies tend

>to grow too tall for them well before the first year is up anyway. So

>if you're going to buy a new seat, make sure you need to do it

>because even if it's wider and can accomodate the FAB, you may have

>to discard it and go with a convertible seat soon anyway. I do like

>the infant seats, and wouldn't want to use a convertible on a baby

>that age because it's so nice to be able to carry them asleep from

>the car to wherever. But if there's much chance that baby is going

>to be 26-27 " long any time soon you may just want to look into a good

>convertible seat that'll last a long time.

>

>As far as recommendations for convertible seats, I cannot recommend

>the Britax seats more. The new Britax Wizard and Marathon seats are

>rated to 60 pounds which should take your child up to and through the

>age of 4 or 5, perhaps longer. Most if not all the other convertible

>seats are only rated for 40 pounds. So you'll end up buying a

>booster seat for the child when that time comes whereas if your seat

>is rated to 60 pounds you can keep the child in the 5 point harness

>that much longer. For me, that's a big deal and while I don't have

>the 60 pound seats, I did buy that gigantic Super Elite because I

>simply do not like the idea of a 3 or 4 year old in a regular

>shoulder belt. If I had to do it all over again, I would buy the 60

>pound seats in a heartbeat. They weren't available when I bought my

>convertible seats 5 and 7 years ago though. Britax does make seats

>better than anyone else IMO, and they're nice and wide and padded and

>totally FAB/DBB friendly. Amongst many other things that make them

>just better and nicer. Yes, a little more expensive but well worth

>it. And if you figure in not needing to ever buy another carseat for

>your child it almost comes out to a wash.

>

>OK, that's my recommendation. :-*

>

>Kori

>

>

>

>

>

>At 05:13 AM 8/30/2005, you wrote:

> >Need help! What is the best car seat to get with the DBB? Our child is

> >a month a old and apparently the car seat we have isn't going to work

> >with the bar. What works?

> >

> >reid

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Hi Reid,

What carseat do you have now? a 1mo old child should be a bar no

bigger than 8 " . My daughter was a big girl (small girl now though,

at 2-1/2) at birth, almost 10 pounds and 12d post dates so she had an

8 " bar at first but most babies use a 6 " bar at this age. It fit

just fine in the carseat. Unless the seat is very narrow it

shouldn't be a problem. We had to buy the narrowest seat we could

find because it had to be sandwiched between a gigantic Britax Super

Elite and a Britax Roundabout. As it was, it barely fit. It was a

Graco, new in 2003. can't remember the model but it is the one that

attaches to their stroller travel systems.

So I'm curious why you are thinking you need a new seat? Did they

give you the bar already to check if it'll fit? I found actually

that the bar and shoes didn't sit inside the seat much at all, at

least not down in the narrow part. Whatever the case, if this is

your first child you may be surprised to learn that these infant

seats rarely get to be used much past 6mo's for the average child.

They not only have weight limits, but length limits and babies tend

to grow too tall for them well before the first year is up anyway. So

if you're going to buy a new seat, make sure you need to do it

because even if it's wider and can accomodate the FAB, you may have

to discard it and go with a convertible seat soon anyway. I do like

the infant seats, and wouldn't want to use a convertible on a baby

that age because it's so nice to be able to carry them asleep from

the car to wherever. But if there's much chance that baby is going

to be 26-27 " long any time soon you may just want to look into a good

convertible seat that'll last a long time.

As far as recommendations for convertible seats, I cannot recommend

the Britax seats more. The new Britax Wizard and Marathon seats are

rated to 60 pounds which should take your child up to and through the

age of 4 or 5, perhaps longer. Most if not all the other convertible

seats are only rated for 40 pounds. So you'll end up buying a

booster seat for the child when that time comes whereas if your seat

is rated to 60 pounds you can keep the child in the 5 point harness

that much longer. For me, that's a big deal and while I don't have

the 60 pound seats, I did buy that gigantic Super Elite because I

simply do not like the idea of a 3 or 4 year old in a regular

shoulder belt. If I had to do it all over again, I would buy the 60

pound seats in a heartbeat. They weren't available when I bought my

convertible seats 5 and 7 years ago though. Britax does make seats

better than anyone else IMO, and they're nice and wide and padded and

totally FAB/DBB friendly. Amongst many other things that make them

just better and nicer. Yes, a little more expensive but well worth

it. And if you figure in not needing to ever buy another carseat for

your child it almost comes out to a wash.

OK, that's my recommendation. :-*

Kori

At 05:13 AM 8/30/2005, you wrote:

>Need help! What is the best car seat to get with the DBB? Our child is

>a month a old and apparently the car seat we have isn't going to work

>with the bar. What works?

>

>reid

>

>

>

>

>

>