your 5mo and your SS1

LuvBug

New member
ok I have a targeted question for people with 5mo's and a SS1. or if you remember exactly about your 5mo in the SS1

where are your 5mo's shoulders in the SS1 right now?
do you use cloth diapers or disposables?

My nephew is in the SS1 and is 5mo(go figure lol!) and he is STILL on the bottom slots! though he is finally over them instead of right at. It seems to me like he is going to be shorter in the torso(though who knows what time will tell!!) but he doesnt seem to be growing as quick as DS and DNi did. He still fits into onesies that they were outgrown in torso by his age.

of course this is a good thing for him to be able to last long in seats... DNi has more time in the MA than I thought(or than before), I think its because she has potty trained now. She still has a year for sure. We were going to do the regent but not now, not sure, hopefully something new and maybe better will be out by the time they need to play musical seats.

feel free to chit chat too :p
 
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snowbird25ca

Moderator - CPST Instructor
Ds was 5.5mos when we bought the SS1, and he was about half between the middle and top slots. He's 10.5mos now, and in the top slots with about 1" of growing room (2" shell above his head.) He's very tall torso'ed as he's only 29" tall overall right now.

5.5mos:
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9.5mos:
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(and yes, his chest clip is a little low in this picture. although it looks lower than it actually is because of seeing more strap over his shoulder. The slot in the shell is slightly below what you see in the fabric, so he's right even with the top slots. The bizarre thing is it wasn't at all low while he was sleeping. :shrug-shoulders: http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y194/snowbird25ca/july 4 07 upload/kidsstartedjuly07040.jpg)

We use cloth diapers, and looking at him in the car tonight he has about 1" left to grow. So disposable would buy us another 1/2" or so I guess?

(He's 7.5mos in the pic in my siggy)
 

thepeach80

Senior Community Member
We stopped using the Safeseat about 7.5 mos to send it back to Graco (it's been 2.5 wks now and no new seat yet) and Ilana was still using the bottom slots. Shes in sposies, but we never used anything bulky in the car w/ the boys so it never made much difference. This is a 6-9 mos outfit she has on in this pic so I'm thinking it must've been taken right before we stopped using it.
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LuvBug

New member
Jennifer that is about how my DNe fits. Finally over the bottom slots but not very much. Itll be interesting to see how he grows! I figured he would be long torsod like the rest of us, but he may or may not- too early to tell for sure... but not following the same pattern as DS and DNi.
 

thepeach80

Senior Community Member
The boys were never long torsoed early on I don't think, but became that way after 1 or so. AJ moved to the top slots in his Radian right before 3, but hasn't grown but maybe 1/4" in torso since then. Evan is only 34", but would outgrow the Scenera in height ffing in another 2" max. Ilana seems more leggy though (yay Ilana, b/c I'm sure not, lol) so maybe she'll be the strange one that could actually use a 40# for a while. :p
 

Dillipop

Well-known member
This was at about 6 months.

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As you can see he is just over the middle slots with a nighttime diaper (probably 2 infant pfs with a cover.) He is still using the middle slots at 13 months and seems to fit pretty much the same, a little closer to top slots, but definitely not needing them. I'd say he still has 3-4 inches over his head.
 

mimieliza

New member
I don't think we moved up from the bottom slots until she was six months old. We cloth diaper. DD is small (10th percentile).
 

steph

New member
I'll do "free chat"

I put Ryan in the SS1 at Babies r us and he had just about 1 inch of shell above his head. He is 28 pounds, around 33 inches with around a 13 inch torso.
 

Kellyr2

New member
I don't recall exactly where he was at 5 mo, but I do know he was at least 6 mo before I moved the harness up to the 2nd slots. And he's in cloth diapers.
 

ymherrera

New member
At 5mo my DS was using 2nd slots...I'll try to find a picture

found some pictures...1 he isn't buckled in I was getting ready to take him out and he was being cute...gives you an idea of where he was fitting in the seat at the time though... I am guessing 4-5 months or so because I took him out of it at 6 months.

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