Question Back up car seat

kelcast · Mar 21, 2012

DS is 2 years old who weighs 23lbs and is 33.5 inches tall and DD is 4 months old but I have no idea how big she is her 4 month check up isn't until Monday but she was in the 80 percentile at 2 months. I currently have DS in a Radian R120 and will be buy one for DD sometime this summer. So here is my dilemma. My in laws are going to start baby sitting my kids when i pick up more classes next semester and we all know the Radian are very heavy so lugging those things out of the car every time I drop them off is going to be a huge pain. So I'm planning on buying back up car seats but I don't have a lot of funds to buy another expensive car seat. We are ERFing so that is also a factor. I saw that Cosco came out with a 40RF car seat. Would it be silly to have such an expensive car seat in our own car and the buy really cheap ones for Grandma & Grandpas car? I want them to be just as safe in their car as they are in ours. I was thinking maybe the MyRide but I don't have the $260+ it would cost to buy 2 of them and on top of that I still need to buy a Radian for DD as it is. What do you all have as your back up car seats?

Cath3114 · Mar 21, 2012

It's not silly at all. Cheap car seats pass the same tests as expensive ones. Test results aren't released, so there's no way to know if one outperforms the other. You're paying for bells and whistles with the expensive seats, not sacrificing safety. I would get the cheaper seat for the grandparents' car no doubt.

In my car I have a MA70. DH has a TF. And the babysitter has a Scenera. I chose the MA70 for mine because it is so easy to install and I can trust her grandparents to do it correctly even if I'm not there. We got the TF because she is tall and skinny, and I'm hoping it will give her more RF time if she outgrows the MA70 by height first. And we got the Scenera because we needed something lightweight, decently priced, and easy for the sitter to install when needed, then put up in a closet when not.

kelcast · Mar 21, 2012

Cath3114 said:
It's not silly at all. Cheap car seats pass the same tests as expensive ones. Test results aren't released, so there's no way to know if one outperforms the other. You're paying for bells and whistles with the expensive seats, not sacrificing safety. I would get the cheaper seat for the grandparents' car no doubt.

In my car I have a MA70. DH has a TF. And the babysitter has a Scenera. I chose the MA70 for mine because it is so easy to install and I can trust her grandparents to do it correctly even if I'm not there. We got the TF because she is tall and skinny, and I'm hoping it will give her more RF time if she outgrows the MA70 by height first. And we got the Scenera because we needed something lightweight, decently priced, and easy for the sitter to install when needed, then put up in a closet when not.

Thank you very much my MIL doesn't drive so they would only be going places when FIL is home when they are there so not very often I thin I am either going to buy the 40RF opr the cute giraffe print ones, I don't have tho worry too much about weight limits because I have small kids. and even if DD ends up big we can buy something else at that time if we need to