snowbird25ca
Moderator - CPST Instructor
We were shopping tonight and in the aisle in front of the baby department there's a bin of Scenera's right now. They're rolled back to $69.99 (Canada, yeah, we pay this much more for the Scenera...)
So there's these 2 women and a baby in an evenflo carrier. The one is standing in front of the bin and holding up the scenera to the other saying that that's what the mom needs and it's only 69.99. And the mom says
"oh no, I can't use that. It doesn't have a base. They're not safe without a base."
Friend says - "this is a different kind of seat, you use it forward facing"
Mom "oh, well as long as it attaches to the car somehow - buckles or something, it might work. It won't be safe unless it attaches somehow though"
I just kept walking although I would've loved to have heard the rest of the conversation. I saw them at the till later and they hadn't bought it. I'm darn curious what she'll get as a seat when her baby outgrows the infant carrier seeing as there aren't any with bases. On a day when I didn't have both kids and dh in tow I might've stopped and said something, then again, mom seemed pretty darn know-it-all about carseats.
So yeah, apparently if a seat doesn't have a base to install and leave in the car it's not safe. Somehow I missed that one in class.
So there's these 2 women and a baby in an evenflo carrier. The one is standing in front of the bin and holding up the scenera to the other saying that that's what the mom needs and it's only 69.99. And the mom says
"oh no, I can't use that. It doesn't have a base. They're not safe without a base."
Friend says - "this is a different kind of seat, you use it forward facing"
Mom "oh, well as long as it attaches to the car somehow - buckles or something, it might work. It won't be safe unless it attaches somehow though"
I just kept walking although I would've loved to have heard the rest of the conversation. I saw them at the till later and they hadn't bought it. I'm darn curious what she'll get as a seat when her baby outgrows the infant carrier seeing as there aren't any with bases. On a day when I didn't have both kids and dh in tow I might've stopped and said something, then again, mom seemed pretty darn know-it-all about carseats.
So yeah, apparently if a seat doesn't have a base to install and leave in the car it's not safe. Somehow I missed that one in class.