Hi
My 7 yo DD was in a Radian in the back of my van, but she's been complaining that the shoulder width is too tight, and I think she's hitting the height limit very soon anyway.
She fits ok in DH's car in a Frontier, but I tried the Frontier in my car and there's NO leg room for her if I put it back there. I can't put her in the 2nd row captain's chairs because DS1 (9 yo) is in one, and it's the only place he gets a safe seat belt fit in my car - the back row seatbelts are a horrible fit on him and the head rests back there don't go high enough for his LBB from his dad's car, and even then the seat belt fit is still not great. The other captain's chair has my DS2's (3 yo) RFing Radian. No way on earth that would fit RFing in the back row, let alone the hassle of getting him into it back there!!
So my options are, turn the 3yo around FFing and put him in the back row or find a HBB that one or both of the older kids could fit in, that would fit on the rear bench without a head rest. DS1 is pretty tall, though, so I doubt any HBB would fit him. So I guess I'm looking for a HBB for DD.
So if possible, I need a HBB that
1) has a shallow enough seat that she'll still have legroom behind the second row seats
and
2) can be used safely without a car head rest support behind it, since even raised they're way too low back there
and
3) ideally is < $150 - DH is fairly annoyed that I'm talking about buying another seat. ("what do you mean we need ANOTHER!?" Of course, we have 3 recently expired seats in the basement that I haven't figured out how or where to recycle, so that's weighing on him I think.)
Sorry I don't have exact measurements on DD, she's in bed. I can add em later if needed. She's more or less average, perhaps a little solidly built, not a stick kid like her older brother. ;-)
Nowhere around here seems to carry Clek, Recaro, etc. so I'd be taking a chance on ordering one of those without knowing how it would fit the car and DD, especially since ideally we'd solve this before taking off for a 7 hour Christmas vacation trip next weekend. Britax, Graco, etc, we can probly find, but at this season, I don't want to go near the stores unless I know exactly what I'm looking for.
Any words of wisdom? :-/ Please?
Thanks
Kelly
ps - my dilemma with turning the 3yo around is that we bought the Radian specifically for the RFing time, so we'd be compromising on his safety level by turning him. But of course I have to balance that against the safety levels of the older kids, especially DS1 who only recently went into a seat belt in my car - it was a REALLY big step for me to do that! So putting him in a not-well-fitting seat belt in the back is not a good option, but I still have to fit DD, and while I would harness her longer if I could, I don't see where I could put her Frontier in this car. And then she wouldn't have a seat in DH's car anyway, so we'd still have to buy something... sigh.
My 7 yo DD was in a Radian in the back of my van, but she's been complaining that the shoulder width is too tight, and I think she's hitting the height limit very soon anyway.
She fits ok in DH's car in a Frontier, but I tried the Frontier in my car and there's NO leg room for her if I put it back there. I can't put her in the 2nd row captain's chairs because DS1 (9 yo) is in one, and it's the only place he gets a safe seat belt fit in my car - the back row seatbelts are a horrible fit on him and the head rests back there don't go high enough for his LBB from his dad's car, and even then the seat belt fit is still not great. The other captain's chair has my DS2's (3 yo) RFing Radian. No way on earth that would fit RFing in the back row, let alone the hassle of getting him into it back there!!
So my options are, turn the 3yo around FFing and put him in the back row or find a HBB that one or both of the older kids could fit in, that would fit on the rear bench without a head rest. DS1 is pretty tall, though, so I doubt any HBB would fit him. So I guess I'm looking for a HBB for DD.
So if possible, I need a HBB that
1) has a shallow enough seat that she'll still have legroom behind the second row seats
and
2) can be used safely without a car head rest support behind it, since even raised they're way too low back there
and
3) ideally is < $150 - DH is fairly annoyed that I'm talking about buying another seat. ("what do you mean we need ANOTHER!?" Of course, we have 3 recently expired seats in the basement that I haven't figured out how or where to recycle, so that's weighing on him I think.)
Sorry I don't have exact measurements on DD, she's in bed. I can add em later if needed. She's more or less average, perhaps a little solidly built, not a stick kid like her older brother. ;-)
Nowhere around here seems to carry Clek, Recaro, etc. so I'd be taking a chance on ordering one of those without knowing how it would fit the car and DD, especially since ideally we'd solve this before taking off for a 7 hour Christmas vacation trip next weekend. Britax, Graco, etc, we can probly find, but at this season, I don't want to go near the stores unless I know exactly what I'm looking for.
Any words of wisdom? :-/ Please?
Thanks
Kelly
ps - my dilemma with turning the 3yo around is that we bought the Radian specifically for the RFing time, so we'd be compromising on his safety level by turning him. But of course I have to balance that against the safety levels of the older kids, especially DS1 who only recently went into a seat belt in my car - it was a REALLY big step for me to do that!
So putting him in a not-well-fitting seat belt in the back is not a good option, but I still have to fit DD, and while I would harness her longer if I could, I don't see where I could put her Frontier in this car. And then she wouldn't have a seat in DH's car anyway, so we'd still have to buy something... sigh.
