17mos. and getting out of CAR SEAT! HELP!

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Jenn01844

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My DD is 17 months and just learned how to get out of the carseat!!! She is in a Evenflo Triumph Advance and is rear facing. She is big for her age, About 34-35" and 27lbs. She did it once last week and today she did it twice in a row n about 10 seconds flat.

What she is doing is moving the chect clip down to below her belly and squeezing an arm out of one side (making it looser) and then taking the second arm out. She then pushes against the back of the car with her feet to raise her body up and out of the bottom harness. Once she gets high enough she uses her arms for leverage on the back of her seat and just stand ups and pops right out. Now it sounds long and complicated but she can do this sooooooooooo quickly that is it amazing (not in a good way).

Now I always make sure the seat is installed correctly and that she is properly secured into the seat so I don't know what else I could do to prevent this as it's not a matter of tightening the straps. Any advice?
 
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mylittlet

Senior Community Member
What about buttoning a shirt over the top of the buckles? Or a zip up coat? Hiding it all might help.

Stefanie - CPStech in Iowa
 

jess71903

Ambassador
Posts like this pop up for that age group kind of often! My favorite solution is to put empty toilet paper rolls between the chest clip and crotch buckles so she can't push it down. You can't just thread them on the EFTA since you can't take the straps out, but you could cut them, then tape them back together.
 

mommycat

Well-known member
You could also try tightening the harness with the clip undone, then doing it up. It will probably be a little tighter this way, maybe enough that she can't wiggle an arm out. Otherwise, my preferred 1st try is the shirt buttoned over top. My kids would have shredded the toilet paper rolls into bits all over the car.
 

opaque1997

New member
There was a really good post on this - someone was struggling with their 21 month old? Maybe you can search and look at that post.. My fav from that list was overalls - unbuckle them - strap carseat - then buckle them over the carseat straps.. I know I've had good luck in other situations with overalls..
 

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