thekatie
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This is a question that I just started wondering about last night, and then I saw the Moondoggy (did I remember that right?) thread (I'm sorry, don't know how to link to a thread!) and it made me all the more curious but I didn't want to derail that thread.
I was always told that any jacket you had to adjust for was too thick, and that either "test" helped - adjust the straps to fit without the jacket, put the jacket on and see if you can buckle baby up, or put the jacket on, buckle baby in, then remove jacket and re buckle to see how much slack there is or is not.
All of J2's jackets need the harness readjusted, so I've just not been using them in the car. We're in the south, and have still had days up into the 70s, so it's just been a nonissue. We are finally down into the 30s, and it IS becoming an issue now. I had planned on just putting the jackets on backwards over the harness...
J2 is almost exclusively in cloth diapers. Last night, out at a friend's house, he was put into a disposable. When we were leaving to head home, there was a CRAZY amount of slack in the harness. I like to think that for cloth, his diapers are pretty trim... but there was more slack than when I put a fleece zip up hoodie on him, and I haven't been using that because of how much of a difference there is.
So, part 1 of the question: if having to loosen a harness at all to put any jacket on DOES mean the jacket is too thick, like I've always been told, would that mean cloth diapers would compress and be an issue, or would location (bum v. chest) mean it wouldn't affect safety?
And now I'm also wondering, could it mean I have the harness *too* tight "normally" and that's why a thin, single layer fleece Garanimals hoodie is too "thick"? The harness doesn't leave marks and J2 never complains (he doesn't talk, but he definitely lets you know when he's unhappy or hurt), but I see so, so, so many people (including CPSTs I know) posting in various forums that they have no issue putting a jacket on, it fits with their kid.
I was always told that any jacket you had to adjust for was too thick, and that either "test" helped - adjust the straps to fit without the jacket, put the jacket on and see if you can buckle baby up, or put the jacket on, buckle baby in, then remove jacket and re buckle to see how much slack there is or is not.
All of J2's jackets need the harness readjusted, so I've just not been using them in the car. We're in the south, and have still had days up into the 70s, so it's just been a nonissue. We are finally down into the 30s, and it IS becoming an issue now. I had planned on just putting the jackets on backwards over the harness...
J2 is almost exclusively in cloth diapers. Last night, out at a friend's house, he was put into a disposable. When we were leaving to head home, there was a CRAZY amount of slack in the harness. I like to think that for cloth, his diapers are pretty trim... but there was more slack than when I put a fleece zip up hoodie on him, and I haven't been using that because of how much of a difference there is.
So, part 1 of the question: if having to loosen a harness at all to put any jacket on DOES mean the jacket is too thick, like I've always been told, would that mean cloth diapers would compress and be an issue, or would location (bum v. chest) mean it wouldn't affect safety?
And now I'm also wondering, could it mean I have the harness *too* tight "normally" and that's why a thin, single layer fleece Garanimals hoodie is too "thick"? The harness doesn't leave marks and J2 never complains (he doesn't talk, but he definitely lets you know when he's unhappy or hurt), but I see so, so, so many people (including CPSTs I know) posting in various forums that they have no issue putting a jacket on, it fits with their kid.