JerseyGirl'sMama
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I did a private seat check last week for a family of a child in my DD's preschool. Both seats (MA and TB) were expired and the mother is trying to find a replacement seat for the MA.
She drives a 2001 Subaru Outback. Her 4.5 year old. 45lb DD is in a TB (she will be replacing it with another TB as soon as she can afford it) and her just turned 2 year old, 29lb DD is in my Radian XTSL until she can replace her seat.
I initally told her to look at the Maestro and Nautilus due to her budget and she bought a Maestro, but before she took it out of the box, she saw that it has no recline option. Her seats are fairly flat and she is concerned about DD2's head slumping while sleeping. We put the RN in with the recline boot out, and the seat still looks very upright, but it was just enough that she says she has not had any slumping issues yet, and it has been 7 days.
If it were me, I'd go with a convertible seat and RF the child, but since mom has no interest in RFing her (she has been FF since 1) I didn't recommend any convertibles cause why waste half a seat, KWIM? I figured at least with a combination seat she would get good use out of it.
I'm half tempted at this point to recommend an AOE. I'd like to try to encourage her to RF her DD2, but I really don't think that is going to happen.
Any ideas?
She drives a 2001 Subaru Outback. Her 4.5 year old. 45lb DD is in a TB (she will be replacing it with another TB as soon as she can afford it) and her just turned 2 year old, 29lb DD is in my Radian XTSL until she can replace her seat.
I initally told her to look at the Maestro and Nautilus due to her budget and she bought a Maestro, but before she took it out of the box, she saw that it has no recline option. Her seats are fairly flat and she is concerned about DD2's head slumping while sleeping. We put the RN in with the recline boot out, and the seat still looks very upright, but it was just enough that she says she has not had any slumping issues yet, and it has been 7 days.
If it were me, I'd go with a convertible seat and RF the child, but since mom has no interest in RFing her (she has been FF since 1) I didn't recommend any convertibles cause why waste half a seat, KWIM? I figured at least with a combination seat she would get good use out of it.
I'm half tempted at this point to recommend an AOE. I'd like to try to encourage her to RF her DD2, but I really don't think that is going to happen.
Any ideas?