Polola0628
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Can someone help me decide?
I'm expecting #3 in September. He or she will be in the center. DD1 will be outboard behind the passenger in a HB Turbo. DD2 will be RF behind the passenger in her Radian. The two older children HAVE to be in those positions.
The only convertible seat I'll go for is the Radian RXT because it is narrow (hello 3 across on a narrow back seat!) and because of its longevity. I would go with a MyRide but the angle my radian is at currently doesn't play well with the MyRide so it's out until DD2 can be FFing.
The infant seat I'm looking at is the Combi Shuttle 33. It will fit. You can leave the handle up And it has a pretty tall shell.
Also, with baby being born in September, he or she will still be itty bitty through the winter months. He or she will be 5 months old once spring hits and the weather stops being bitter cold. At that point I could turn DD2 FFing in her Radian (she'd be 3y3m, I'm OK with that) and put the baby in a convertible in the center RFing (in a MyRide perhaps, because of what I mentioned before).
There is no telling how tall this baby will be, or how their growth curve will pan out. DD1 had a 15" torso at 13 months! She's now 4 and is over the top slots of the Radian. She outgrew the original snugride at 3 months of age. Had the Shuttle 33 been out back then, we'd be able to have kept her in an infant seat for at least 1 year!
DD1 is currently 2y2m old with a 13.5" torso height, and an overall seating height of 20.5" and is 25lbs... she'd still (but barely) fit in the Shuttle 33!
It could really go either way. DD1 was formula fed and DD2 was breastfed... I've heard that they are like two different "animals" and thus will follow a different growth curve (with breastfed children being overall smaller than their formula fed counterparts) but I don't know how true that is! I do plan on exclusively breastfeeding though.
Thoughts?
ETA: also, the shuttle 33 isn't compatible with our stroller, but I don't like using infant seats as being "baby holders" out of the car anyways. It's moreso for the ease of buckling baby inside the house, then just reaching over to snap the seat into the base. With the Radian, I'd have to take the booster out (or sit in it haha) and buckle baby into the middle, while DD1 waits. Not a huge deal because I'm a SAHM and DH is always with me (I don't drive!). I guess she could sit in the cargo area until baby is buckled?
WWYD?
I'm expecting #3 in September. He or she will be in the center. DD1 will be outboard behind the passenger in a HB Turbo. DD2 will be RF behind the passenger in her Radian. The two older children HAVE to be in those positions.
The only convertible seat I'll go for is the Radian RXT because it is narrow (hello 3 across on a narrow back seat!) and because of its longevity. I would go with a MyRide but the angle my radian is at currently doesn't play well with the MyRide so it's out until DD2 can be FFing.
The infant seat I'm looking at is the Combi Shuttle 33. It will fit. You can leave the handle up And it has a pretty tall shell.
Also, with baby being born in September, he or she will still be itty bitty through the winter months. He or she will be 5 months old once spring hits and the weather stops being bitter cold. At that point I could turn DD2 FFing in her Radian (she'd be 3y3m, I'm OK with that) and put the baby in a convertible in the center RFing (in a MyRide perhaps, because of what I mentioned before).
There is no telling how tall this baby will be, or how their growth curve will pan out. DD1 had a 15" torso at 13 months! She's now 4 and is over the top slots of the Radian. She outgrew the original snugride at 3 months of age. Had the Shuttle 33 been out back then, we'd be able to have kept her in an infant seat for at least 1 year!
DD1 is currently 2y2m old with a 13.5" torso height, and an overall seating height of 20.5" and is 25lbs... she'd still (but barely) fit in the Shuttle 33!
It could really go either way. DD1 was formula fed and DD2 was breastfed... I've heard that they are like two different "animals" and thus will follow a different growth curve (with breastfed children being overall smaller than their formula fed counterparts) but I don't know how true that is! I do plan on exclusively breastfeeding though.
Thoughts?
ETA: also, the shuttle 33 isn't compatible with our stroller, but I don't like using infant seats as being "baby holders" out of the car anyways. It's moreso for the ease of buckling baby inside the house, then just reaching over to snap the seat into the base. With the Radian, I'd have to take the booster out (or sit in it haha) and buckle baby into the middle, while DD1 waits. Not a huge deal because I'm a SAHM and DH is always with me (I don't drive!). I guess she could sit in the cargo area until baby is buckled?
WWYD?