I HATE the nautilus right now. HATE HATE HATE!!!

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arly1983

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• Oct 20, 2011

• #1

My DH's cousin is coming to do his once in a blue moon visit to his parents. They are flying in with their 1 yr old as a lapbaby (yep, been there and said that). His mom requested to borrow a carseat from me for a couple of weeks. I let them take DS2's triumph advance. He sleeps great in it. The only other harnessed seat ** I have is the nautilus. So he is in that and I HATE it on him. He is JUST BARELY needing the next up slots which makes for an awful uncomfortable fit and he can't seem to sleep at all in it and ends up raging mad. He has about an inche to grow in the triumph advance and I keep telling myself to keep him in that and then he will fit the GN better but still....

I am *this* close to getting him something else. *THIS* close!

I am going to tear my hair out if I have to deal with this for 12 more days.

ETA: ***I have another harnessed seat but I never think of it because its J's seat and he is always in it.***

 

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Judi

CPST/Firefighter

• Oct 20, 2011

• #2

Do you have it in recline mode? Can you recline the vehicle seat?

 

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arly1983

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• Oct 20, 2011

• #3

Judi said:

Do you have it in recline mode? Can you recline the vehicle seat?

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I can and I just thought of that like a dummy. How many clicks was it? 2?

 

Judi

CPST/Firefighter

• Oct 20, 2011

• #4

You would have to check your vehicle owners manual.

 

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arly1983

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• Oct 20, 2011

• #5

Judi said:

You would have to check your vehicle owners manual.

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It doesn't say.

 

Judi

CPST/Firefighter

• Oct 20, 2011

• #6

Then I would do it. As long as Nauti is ok with it.

 

StillThankful

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• Oct 20, 2011

• #7

Arly

Is it any better for him to sleep in the GN now that you reclined it?

 

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babyherder

Well-known member

• Oct 20, 2011

• #8

Is the 1 year old rf?

 

Keeanh

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• Oct 20, 2011

• #9

babyherder said:

Is the 1 year old rf?

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Ah, I think I see where you're going. If 1yo is FF, they might as well deal with the GN.

 

Kayleen

New member

• Oct 21, 2011

• #10

I used the GN and loved them except when DD was sleeping. She would have horrid head slump. Didn't seem to bother her, but I didn't like it. We got the Britax Frontier 85 and I couldn't be happier. 10 harness/headwing height adjustments, and NO headslump! Headwings are always where we want them to be when adjusting to the next setting. DD falls asleep often in it. I love it. Well worth the investment. You can find them for $208-$212 on Amazon.

 

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babyherder

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• Oct 21, 2011

• #11

Keeanh said:

Ah, I think I see where you're going. If 1yo is FF, they might as well deal with the GN.

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Exactly. I'm hoping the 1 year old is rf, though.

 

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arly1983

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• Oct 21, 2011

• #12

akearney3 said:

Arly

Is it any better for him to sleep in the GN now that you reclined it?

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When the seat was upright, no, not really. Since neither my car manual or the nautilus manual said anything about how much you could recline the seat, I just did two clickes. It makes a HUGE difference. It puts him from right over the next slots to about half way between and its just reclined enough so that he can sleep. It doesn't look comfy to me but he was sleeping with no interuptions this morning so it can't be that bad.

Keeanh said:

Ah, I think I see where you're going. If 1yo is FF, they might as well deal with the GN.

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babyherder said:

Exactly. I'm hoping the 1 year old is rf, though.

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No, he is not RFing sadly. I got such a hostile attack when I mentioned the new 2 yr recommendations I almost told them they could buy their own seat. I was terribly afraid they would go to a thrift store and i had already agreed but next time I don't think I am going to be loaning anything. Last time was about11 months ago so he was only 8 weeks old so I think by the time they come again I probably will have cooled off.

I sent the EFTA because its my older seat at over 4 yrs old just in case something happens to it.