head slump issues

NannyMom

Well-known member
Nanny next door came to me today with carseat issues. Baby just turned 5 months. He's in a Britax infant seat (the older one, I always get the 2 names confused). When I initially helped her with installing the seat, the level line on the base almost looked over reclined. No way to make the seat less reclined. She was telling me how his head keeps fallinmg forward :confused: I'm going to try and work with her this afternoon (if our schedules mesh well, otherwise it'll be next week) to make sure the seat is properly reclined (and I'll have her park on our piece of driveway where it's flat). I showed her before how to properly tighten the harness, so I'm sure she's doing that (but I'll double check of course).

But what seems odd to me is, his head will fall, and go back up, and fall, and back up again. :confused: I told her I'm very confused because a properly reclined carseat should allow the head to stay back.

When I showed her harness tightness, he was doing the 'baby curl', where he's trying to sit himself up as we're trying to lay him down to buckle him. An instructor told me that's usually a good indicator that they can have the seat more upright. So I wonder.... does his head look like it's flopping because he's trying to sit more upright? BabyS doesn't do this, but she's a chunker and her chin looks like it's touching her chest just how she normally sits :whistle:
 
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Maedze

New member
We call those 'baby crunches' :D :love:

I'd try installing more upright and then popping him in the seat for a few moments to see what he does. He might be more comfortable in the upright position and stop flopping.
 

NannyMom

Well-known member
Well, it's a good thing nanny wants a convertible now. Because the seat can't be installed more upright in her car. But, I had loaned them a seat, and nanny says it's sitting in the house, so we can try that :) Just gotta convince the parents that the seat is safe even w/o the stuff around his head (reason for buying the Britax).
 

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