Question What seats would fit 3 across?

[bornefamily4]

Hi everyone! I'm new to this forum, I goin it while trying to google seats.

We just found out we will be expecting baby #3 in February.

Last month we traded in our big back seat truck for a 2013 ford escape. The hip seat Dimensions say 54.8

Right now I have two graco nautilus back there with not much extra room.

So I'm wondering if anyone knows why two seats would fit with a infant seat?
I have a almost 4 year old and an almost 2 year old.

Would the sunshine radian seats fit with a chicco keyfit?

Also why are other suggestions.

Thank you!!

 

[merbearbug]

I think it's totally doable.
I drive a KIA Sorento, with 56 inches of hip room in the back.
I currently have my 6 month old in a Chicco keyfit, my 3.5 yr old RF in a Graco MySize70, and my newly 5 yr old in a frontier, harnessed.

With your vehicle, I would see about puzzling a chicco, maybe one of the nautilius's, and then getting a Radian for your oldest.
Are you set on keeping your 2 yr old FF? If you switched back to RF you might puzzle the seats better by putting the 4 yr old in the middle and the two RF outboard- which would be easier (at least for me) to get the bucket seat in the car (especially once your baby puts on some weight!) and buckling the 2 year old in.
Once the baby is out of the Chicco, I plan on moving him into my daughter's seat and possibly FFing her in a harmony defender, but we are waiting to see.

 

[nannykates]

Radians are made by diono now (same basic seats a few new features mostly just a name change). First thing I'd try is one nautilus one radian and the keyfit. I also would encourage you to rf you 2yo as its such a safety benefit and might be easier to get them all in. Switching to all seatbelt installs will buy you inches of space (if they aren't already).

 

[bornefamily4]

Thanks for the info! I had no idea that using the seat belt and not the anchors would give more inches of room! I'm going to have to find some friends with these seats so I can try to puzzle them in my car before I go and buy three new seats!

 

[nannykates]

You can move the outboard seats closer to the door that way. Babies r us and buy buy baby both let you take seats to your car to try(bru generally holds your license a customer service, buy buy baby sends a chaperone), if either of those are local to you.