Travel/carseat/plane question

[TulipsAndSunscreen]

Sorry to hijack, but did that actually work? Did your DD go from hating her carseat to loving it once you made the switch? BabyJ absolutely hates his infant seat, and I'd switch to a convertible in a heartbeat if there was even a remote possibility he may not scream his head off from the moment I buckled him in.

Yes. Dd used to wake up from a dead sleep even at 2 weeks old to SCREAM in the car seat. We did it at 6 months which was the earliest we thought we could and we got a Britax marathon which is a TANK. She was much, much better. She still doesn't love the car but now it's initial whimpering before settling down where it used to be blood curling howler monkey screams. I used to cry on the way home from the grocery store because she was screaming herself hoarse and gagging.

[Thirteen]

We have a go go kidz car seat trolley contraption and love it. I've let friends borrow ours here. Stinks that I'm not closer, because I'd let you use it! We had a great method for zipping dd around the airport--we bought a Coccoro carseat. It fits through the X-ray machines ATTACHED to the gogo kidz. So all we had to do was take dd out of her seat at the very last moment at security.

It also fit through the airplane aisles! Minimal walking and carrying was SO great!

I <3 Go Go Kidz.

[Thirteen]

Sorry to hijack, but did that actually work? Did your DD go from hating her carseat to loving it once you made the switch? BabyJ absolutely hates his infant seat, and I'd switch to a convertible in a heartbeat if there was even a remote possibility he may not scream his head off from the moment I buckled him in.

It did for us. He hated the bucket seat, and we switched at 3 months. Like Johnson&Johnson, No More Tears.
It was a freaking miracle...
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[MarissaNicole]

We ordered the britax carseat caddy and will try it this weekend, that way she'll have her carseat in the cab ride to the airport.

I also realized that down the road we may do a combo of bringing a car seat and leaving one or two there (and buying CARES harnesses because I dont know if we could cart three carseats through the airport. Those of you with 3+ kids what do you do when you fly. DH and I were talking about it and we will probably leave the car at the airport rather than cab it for car seat purposes but even then I may want to have one or two car seats left in FL so we aren't schlepping around 3+ carseats in the airport.

Then again who knows how many kiddos we will have?

Wife to PGY3

[Pollyanna]

By the time you have baby #3 your oldest will be old enough to use the airplane seat belt. When we traveled with three littles we typically had two car seats that we used on the plane and a double stroller we checked at the gate (the car seat for the oldest was checked with the luggage). Truly it was always super easy for us to travel this way (and you have no idea how huge it was to have a stroller when our flight was canceled and we had to spend the night in DFW.).