Changing of the guard
As you may have surmised from his 6-month weigh-in stats, Isaac's days in his first car seat were numbered. We were greatly intimidated by car seat shopping before he was born just in the sheer numbers involved, both in the vast array of potential car seats to choose from and their unbelievable prices. We lucked out in that his hospital offered a brand-new, strictly rear-facing car seat for $25. This car seat is rated until he's 22 lbs, which is impending, but he has also become uncomfortably long -- he can't straighten out his legs in the seat. He can straighten them out by placing his feet flat above the seat, making for his new favorite game: sliding his feet up and down on the backseat to make that annoying reee-rrooo noise against the fabric.
This all pointed to the fact that we needed to finally confront our crushing car-seat indecision and buy him a convertible model; one that he can ride rear-facing in until he's a year old, but that would also last him a little longer than that and ride forward-facing later on. I thought that we could avoid the whole issue by just throwing heaps of money at it, and had focused my sights on the Britax Marathon, the Cadillac of car seats. If I buy the most expensive convertible car seat on the market, then surely no harm would come to my baby in it, simply because they would be using all that extra money as protective padding around my darling firstborn. Right? This logic seemed much simpler to me than sorting through the unwieldy amount of information available about each car seat on the market. However, when I tried to convince my husband of this logic, he said, "You would think that you couldn't put a price on your baby's safety and your peace of mind. But it turns out that I can, and it is a hundred and fifty bucks." So we got this Evenflo model because we thought it looked most squishy. Kind of like an apology to Baby-Bot for not buying him a Baby Papasan. Here is a side-by-side of the old and the new:
Our new seat is supposed to last until he's 40 lbs. How long do you think that will take?
This all pointed to the fact that we needed to finally confront our crushing car-seat indecision and buy him a convertible model; one that he can ride rear-facing in until he's a year old, but that would also last him a little longer than that and ride forward-facing later on. I thought that we could avoid the whole issue by just throwing heaps of money at it, and had focused my sights on the Britax Marathon, the Cadillac of car seats. If I buy the most expensive convertible car seat on the market, then surely no harm would come to my baby in it, simply because they would be using all that extra money as protective padding around my darling firstborn. Right? This logic seemed much simpler to me than sorting through the unwieldy amount of information available about each car seat on the market. However, when I tried to convince my husband of this logic, he said, "You would think that you couldn't put a price on your baby's safety and your peace of mind. But it turns out that I can, and it is a hundred and fifty bucks." So we got this Evenflo model because we thought it looked most squishy. Kind of like an apology to Baby-Bot for not buying him a Baby Papasan. Here is a side-by-side of the old and the new:
Our new seat is supposed to last until he's 40 lbs. How long do you think that will take?
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