RoundaboutTraveler
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Hello again!
Okay, so I'm back with a few more questions. I did read a few Nautilus vs. Regent comments on other threads, but tell me bottom-line what you think of my plan:
DS3.5 is in 2 Marathons (FF, wah!) in our cars, and a brand-new Nautilus in Gramma's car since he outgrew our spare (Scenera, which we used RF in the gap between 33-35 lbs. when he outgrew the Roundabout, lol, did I confuse you yet? That Scenera was also our airline seat, which figures into one of my questions below). Anyway, he is about 39 inches and weighs between 38-40 lbs. depending on what he's eaten recently, hee hee! We are planning to buy 2 more Nautilus seats when he outgrows the Marathons, avoiding the Regent altogether because it looks HUGE and I don't think we need those crazy limits. So that leads to questions 1-3;
1. Would you buy the Nautilus over the Regent for a kid with his stats?
2. Why would you need a higher harness limit than the Nautilus? What exactly IS the limit on the Regent's harness? I can't imagine more than 65 lbs. ???
3. I have seen the ads for the CARES and I'm thinking of buying him one for our next flight in December. However, he would likely only be able to use it for a couple of years, tops. Does it expire like a seat? Would I be able to save it for the next kid?
4. If I don't get the CARES, what should I use on the airplane? Nautilus? Marathon? I am even thinking of having Nana (my mom in Florida) buy her own Nautilus as it would last him until he's out of a booster completely, I think...is that logical thinking? She would absolutely buy one if I asked her to and explained that it would be the last one she'd need to buy. We visit frequently and it could make things much easier. But the problem with that is, what would I do on the plane once he outgrew the CARES? Would he then be fine in the regular seatbelt (I mean safe enough, ugh I hate to put it like that but sometimes lugging a heavy seat alone is hard, dh often joins us a week or so later so I'm on my own at least one way).
Okay, sorry for the litany of questions, but I do have one more. If you were starting over with a newborn tomorrow, what would you buy? We are seriously considering TTC within a year, and I'd like to start shopping for seats. Not to buy now, but to get an idea of what's out there. DS was in a Roundabout as a newborn, but it will likely expire just as we have our next baby.
OH and finally the plug: I saw a couple shopping for a car seat in BRU and ended up talking to them about child passenger safety and which car seats I like (they bought the Nautilus)! I told them about this site and hopefully they've checked it out and enjoyed it as much as I have! They were very nice and had an adorable daughter. I told them about extended RF and told them to check out the crash test dummy videos. The only suggestion they didn't take was that they might wait to buy the Nautilus as their DD certainly had a ton more time to RF, and the Nautilus DOES expire at some point, but they were eager to get one. I am really hoping they decided to extended RF, they seemed like very smart people who were interested in finding out more about it. So I was quite proud of myself, lol.