At some point, it’s possible your baby got into the habit of sleeping in a car seat or a swing. For us, it was the only way we could get her to sleep when Kayleigh was very young. But how do you transition the baby to sleep into a crib? Here’s how we did it.
www.edmunds.com It’s as much a rite of passage as childbirth itself — the dreaded car seat installation. Fraught with anxiety about “doing it wrong,” millions of new parents nevertheless fight it out in a sweaty, grunt-inducing battle with the infant car seat, a hunk of white plastic that somehow holds the power of life or death over their fragile newborn. Upon the birth of their first child, even normally laid-back people have been known to worry about car seats with type A obsessiveness. Chances are that they’re getting it wrong anyway. Amazingly, research from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that as many as 80 percent of all car seats are improperly installed and used. Eighty percent. It’s a significant factor in why automobile accidents are the number-one killer of children under 14. The great difficultly in installing car seats has always been the almost limitless variety in the way that both car seats and vehicle seats are made. Getting a good fit between car seat and vehicle seat is more difficult than manufacturers on either side of the equation would care to admit. Vehicle seatbelts might have automatic locking retractors (ALR), emergency locking retractors (ELR) or ones that switch between the two. Seat cushions can be flat or rounded, wide or narrow. Most newer cars’ middle seats have shoulder belts, some older ones don’t, but all models post 2008 will. Add to this the wide array of child safety seat dimensions and …
Lora’s review on her: -First Years True Fit Convertible Car Seat (Sporty Blue) and -Foogo Thermos Diaper Bag (YES, the car seat can be rear facing too. It holds newborns and any baby under the age of one, has to be rear facing. We had ours rear facing until Tripp was a year old. Then he got too big and his legs were cramped up when it was rear facing.)
