[blparent] Car seat recommendation

[Tara Briggs]

Thanks for the recommendations about car seats. My current car seat can be quickly put into a car and secured by a seatbelt. Do any of the car seats for older babies meaning 20 pounds and up work that way? Thanks for the advice!

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> On Jun 4, 2015, at 8:35 AM, Wendy Meuse via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Oh man do I ever cringe when I think of the car seats we used to have forty years ago.  You didn't even need to have them by law 
> here.  I remember going places and just holding my daughter on my knee.  Crazy or what?  If I had it to do over again, things would 
> be oh so different.  As for the baby sitting thing, Selby I hope you will give that a miss.  It just sounds like trouble to me.  I 
> had that happen once and did i ever get ripped off.  It worked out ok for about three weeks, and tghen one day the mom brought her 
> four month old baby for me to watch and that was the last I saw of her.  She didn't bring enough clothes, food, formula, nothing.  I 
> had to go and spend about one hundred and twenty dollars for everything cause I didn't have a thing.  She brought little DDebby to 
> me with two diapers and a half of a bottle of formula.  I waited until about five that afternoon and called child protective 
> services.  Her boyfriend told me that she had packed her things and just disappeared.  The child was not his so he didn't want to 
> come pick her up.  I felt so sad for that poor baby.  I had not had the baby for a couple of weeks, and that day she had cradle cap, 
> terrible diaper rash and she was just filthy.  I don't think some people should be allowed to have children.  My daughter was four 
> at the time and whenn she saw me getting little Debbie ready to bathe she started to cry.  she said, mamma, the baby looks so sore. 
> ooo I was so mad.  Cchildren are so precious.  I don't know how people can treat them that way.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Star Gazer via blparent" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
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> Cc: "Star Gazer" <pickrellrebecca at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 6:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Car seat recommendation
> 
> 
> Look at carseats and try them out. You can learn how
> to install and deinstall a carseat. Get one that works for you.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Shelby
> Meyer via blparent
> Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2015 9:39 PM
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> Cc: Shelby Meyer
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Car seat recommendation
> 
> At Walmart they have the Costco car seat for $46. It were your faces up to
> 40 pounds and 40 inches. They also have the safety first guide 65 for $79.
> Honestly I would pick that one, it's comfortable, rear faces up to 40
> pounds/40 inches and forward faces up to 65 pounds. It should last your
> child until four or five years old and then you can buy something else then.
> The car seats that say they go up to 100 pounds aren't always the best. They
> generally don't work very well in booster mode.
> 
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>>> On Jun 3, 2015, at 6:55 PM, Tara Briggs via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> I am looking for a new car  Seat for my baby. She is around 30 inches and
> about 16 pounds. My car seat is rare facing and goes up to 20 pounds. What
> recommendations do you have for the next car seat? They have car seats that
> go from 5 pounds to 100 pounds. This would be nice. However, the car seat we
> looked at was the kind you install in the car and don't move it out of the
> car. I am looking for a car seat that can go easily from one car to another.
> Thanks for the help! I look forward to people's responses.
>> Tara
>> 
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