margotdarko
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Good afternoon! We have a three year old son currently FF in a Britax Marathon 70 in the middle seat, one in each of our two cars. Our new baby is due March 4 and we bought her a Graco SnugRide 35. We had the same when our son was little and really love the click base. We already have two bases and a stroller for it, so I really don't want to have buy any different seats to make this work.
I know the ideal is our son to stay in the middle seat and to have the baby RF in behind the driver, but it doesn't fit that way in either car because my husband and I are both over 6'0" tall and we both need our seats all the way back.
For the Ford Escape, our best solution we think is the FF seat behind the driver and the RF seat in the middle. One of the seats will have to use the safety belt instead of the LATCH since they can't share the latch. Which seat is better using the LATCH or does that not matter? We have tethers in all spots for the FF seat in both cars.
For the Ford Focus, the seats won't even fit next to each other at all. So we would have the FF seat behind the driver and the RF seat behind the passenger seat with no possibility of all four of us going somewhere in the car at the same time since neither of the adults would fit in the passenger seat with it pushed forward enough to for the RF seat.
Does anyone have any advice? Please let me know if you need any more information. I'd hate to move the FF seat out of the middle spot, especially since my son is so used to sitting in that spot and can be a weirdo about change, but I just don't know what to do.
We're going to make our best attempt and make sure to get it inspected before the baby arrives. Are there any tips on getting the inspection done? We have a police station nearby that does safety checks by appointment. Should I be able to just trust whatever they say?
I know the ideal is our son to stay in the middle seat and to have the baby RF in behind the driver, but it doesn't fit that way in either car because my husband and I are both over 6'0" tall and we both need our seats all the way back.
For the Ford Escape, our best solution we think is the FF seat behind the driver and the RF seat in the middle. One of the seats will have to use the safety belt instead of the LATCH since they can't share the latch. Which seat is better using the LATCH or does that not matter? We have tethers in all spots for the FF seat in both cars.
For the Ford Focus, the seats won't even fit next to each other at all. So we would have the FF seat behind the driver and the RF seat behind the passenger seat with no possibility of all four of us going somewhere in the car at the same time since neither of the adults would fit in the passenger seat with it pushed forward enough to for the RF seat.
Does anyone have any advice? Please let me know if you need any more information. I'd hate to move the FF seat out of the middle spot, especially since my son is so used to sitting in that spot and can be a weirdo about change, but I just don't know what to do.
We're going to make our best attempt and make sure to get it inspected before the baby arrives. Are there any tips on getting the inspection done? We have a police station nearby that does safety checks by appointment. Should I be able to just trust whatever they say?