Post by thejen626 on Sept 22, 2014 16:28:13 GMT -5
I rf'd DD1 until just after her 2nd birthday.
We turned DD2 in August. She screamed constantly in the car and DH installed the carseat FF when he bought me a new car. She hasn't screamed or cried in the car at all since then. She will be 2 on Oct 2nd, so she was just over 22 months.
I'm a big advocate for ERF, but...man, DD2 is way happier now FF.
I turned DD at 22 months. DD was complaining that it hurt. I think she was straining her neck to look out the window. She was also fusing a lot. She was much happier when I turned her. I wanted to make it to 2, but 22 months was good. Her dr even said it was great, a lot of people just turn their kids at 1.
Post by juliette21 on Sept 22, 2014 16:32:14 GMT -5
We just turned my September 2012 "baby" forward-facing a couple weeks ago. So we made it to the age 2 recommendation, but we couldn't push it any longer because he is 1 pound away from the weight limit on our Britax Marathon. I honestly feel good we made it to the 2-year mark, he is a big boy and I've been nervous about him hitting the weight max before 2.
DD was born at the end of March in 2012 and is still RF. We will switch her when she reaches the limit of her seats. She's on the tall side, so I don't know how much longer we have.
Post by turtlegirl on Sept 22, 2014 16:39:33 GMT -5
DS2 was born July 2012 and we turned him about a week or so before he turned two.
I went on a long road trip with just DS1 and had to take DS2's car seat out of my car and leave it with DH who drives a 2 door pick-up truck. So DH installed the car seat FF in the front seat (no airbags - it's a 1995). And when I installed it back in my car (which is what the kids ride in 99.5% of the time) I put it FF since we were so close to him being two.
I'm happy with our decision. DS1 only RF until 19 months, so we made it a couple months longer with DS2.
C's still RF in both cars. Both seats have a 40 lb RF weight limit.
We may switch him FF in H's car because I have a bitch of a time getting his seat installed correctly RF and I'm not 100% confident in it, and we'll need more room when we put the infant seat in there. But he will be RF in my car (our primary vehicle) for the foreseeable future.
What are the weight limits on your seats? DD just barely makes the forward facing minimum right now, hahaha.
We are rear facing until I get pregnant again I think. We will probably switch shortly before hypo #2 is born or around age 4, whatever is sooner.
We have an older version of the Britax Marathon (purchased for DS1 in the Spring of 2010) and the RF weight limit is 35 pounds. My DS2 is 34 pounds at 2 years old and has been for a while.
The newer Marathon models have a 40-pound RF weight limit.
yup. Just raised the headrest on her maxi cosi pria 70 yesterday so she's got more room to grow. Weight limit RF is 40lbs and she was like 32 at her 2 yr appt I believe.
July 2012 and we turned her in like April or something.
I really wanted to make it to 2 but I just couldn't take the fighting and tantruming any longer. She fought it so hard and I was having to physically force her in the seat, trying to bend her body in half while she was trying to arch her back and twist. I was seriously afraid I'd accidentally break a leg or arm trying to get her in. She was mostly okay once I got her strapped down and we got going but I just couldn't take it anymore. We were hardly going anywhere because I just didn't have it in me to fight her all the time like that.
Still RF, and will be for the foreseeable future. She's only 22-ish pounds, and has a LONG ways to go til the max weight on her seat (Boulevard). I figure she'll stay RF until she starts to hate it.
Post by matildasun on Sept 22, 2014 16:58:46 GMT -5
M who has a May birthday is still rear facing. He is 5lbs from the limit on one seat and 10 on the other. I turned A at almost 2.5 right before M was born. I plan on leaving M rear facing until he outgrows the seats. My husband is anxious to turn him, because he is a pain in the neck to buckle these days.
Just flipped yesterday. He is 2 next month. He started throwing tantrums so I decided it was time. I would typically do erf if the kid didn't care. And did with the first kid who didn't know there was any other option.
DS will be two in 11 days. He is still rear-facing and we have no plans to switch him. He has expressed no discomfort, and is well within the RF limits of the seat (Clek Foonf), so there he'll stay for the foreseeable future. H defers to me on this. I mention that only because I've observed that most of the time it's the dad who is eager to flip the kid to FF, as though it's a rite of passage.
Post by water*drop on Sept 22, 2014 17:34:04 GMT -5
May 2012 and still RFing in a Radian. We don't have a particular goal at this point; we'll go with it until DD starts putting up a big fight or we have some other reason to change it.