Elijah likes car rides. Unless he is too tired. Or unless he dropped his toy and can't reach it. But even then, he is usually quite content to just sit there and think his deep thoughts. Especially now that his car seat has been turned around and he is facing forward. There was some confusion about the specifications of our car seat, so we waited way longer than we needed to to turn him around.
Another change came along with the new car seat orientation. After visiting our friends Peter and Tina the other day (who are also Elijah's God parents and our former neighbors), we were getting in the car and I decided that now that Elijah is facing forward, there's no need for me to sit next to him in the back seat. So I got in the front passenger seat, and realized that the last time I sat in that seat was over ten months ago, on a cold December night (a Saturday night), when we pulled out from this very location on our way to Swedish Covenant Hospital because I was in labor.
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I'm curious about the confusing requirements to turn the car seat around. I've been told that the baby has to be 20 lbs AND one year of age. We're dying to give Cal some new scenery, though, and would be happy to have different standards. And you've been riding in the back seat for 10 months? Such a good mom ....
Cherith, I am not sure about the AND part. The confusion for us was that the seat instructions said something line this:
Rear facing: 10 to 33 lbs
Forward facing: up to 40 lbs
But does this mean that forward facing is between 33 and 40 lbs, or does it mean that the child cannot be rear facing after 33 lbs, but it's also OK to turn them around earlier? In any case, we decided that at 23 lbs Elijah was big enough to face forward, plus it's much easier to get him in and out that way.
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