Nedra
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We have friends who are due with a baby in July.
We have an awesome infant seat that will be collecting dust until it's used by our next child (and who knows when that will be).
We need a back-up convertible seat for our child. We were planning on a Sureride/Titan 65.
My husband has proposed lending our Aton 2 to the friends and asking them to buy their convertible early so that we can use it as our back-up until they are ready for it.
What do you think of this plan? What are things to consider when proposing an arrangement like this to friends? Who picks the convertible? (Them, right? Should we try it in our car too? I am hoping they just want a Nextfit, since they drive Honda Civics and the dad is really tall.) Any experiences/lessons to share?
We definitely trust them to be honest about if they seat gets into a crash. The mom works in public health and they are just generally honest, good people. My biggest concern would be that they might need to gate check the seat for a flight at some point -- they travel overseas a lot because the dad has family in Europe. Of course I would encourage them to buy a seat for the baby if they actually were planning a trip right now, but would we need to set "rules" for car seat use from the start when we propose this?
Thanks!
We have an awesome infant seat that will be collecting dust until it's used by our next child (and who knows when that will be).
We need a back-up convertible seat for our child. We were planning on a Sureride/Titan 65.
My husband has proposed lending our Aton 2 to the friends and asking them to buy their convertible early so that we can use it as our back-up until they are ready for it.
What do you think of this plan? What are things to consider when proposing an arrangement like this to friends? Who picks the convertible? (Them, right? Should we try it in our car too? I am hoping they just want a Nextfit, since they drive Honda Civics and the dad is really tall.) Any experiences/lessons to share?
We definitely trust them to be honest about if they seat gets into a crash. The mom works in public health and they are just generally honest, good people. My biggest concern would be that they might need to gate check the seat for a flight at some point -- they travel overseas a lot because the dad has family in Europe. Of course I would encourage them to buy a seat for the baby if they actually were planning a trip right now, but would we need to set "rules" for car seat use from the start when we propose this?
Thanks!