Category: Parent Talk
Well, since I don't see many posts to this board anymore, I'm beginning to worry that it's already starting to fizzle out. That would be terrible for me, as I realy enjoy talking to other parents and future parents about issues that I face as a parent. Well, anyway, on that note, I have a question. Does anyone use a Sit 'n Stroll? I've heard a lot about them in qe blind-parent mailing lists and such, and I'm thinking of getting one. I take my son on the city bus a lot, and we usually meet my aunt and uncle in the next town over at a grocery store where the bus stops. They take us in their car to their house. I need a carseat and stroller for this journey. It is both complicated and hard for myself and my husband to handle. On top of that, we have his diaper bag, and sometimes our Pac Mates on top of that. So, I thought a Sit 'n Stroll might be a good purchase for our family. Does it "grow" with your child like the descriptions say? Is it sturdy enogh to withstand bus rides, car rides and the like at least once a week? Is it worth the expense? Would it be easy for a blind person to install, or does someone sighted have to do it? My son is seven months old, and cannot legally sit in a forward-facing carseat. Can it sit rear-facing and forward-facing or do you have to get two separate models? Any information and/or feedback would be great. Thanks.
we've done alot of research on this peace of equipment, my husband and I, and we find that we absolutely love every thing we heare. you only need one, it is convertable, and it goes up to 40 pounds. my husband and I wanted to buy one but apparently there pritty hard to find, every websight we go to that has them are sold out. and you can't find them in stores. babys r us, toys r us, target and walmart do not sell them in their stores although there on the websites, but like i said, sold out. so unfortunitly, i can't give you first hand experiance about them, but i really really want one. there verry pricy, the only down side, but well worth it.
Wow. I forgot I posted this. Lol. Well, I too have heard good things about them, so last month we won the auction for one from EBAY for $87 which included shipping. It's wonderful. We use it with my son when we take Paratransit or ride with other people and it's great. You just squeeze down on a lever and it pops the wheels in and turns in to a carseat. I says it can be a rear-facing infant carseat, but in my opinion, it doesn't recline far enough for me to feel comfortable putting a tiny baby in it. We have an infant carseat already so when I have my daughter, that's what we'll use. Yeah, so I recomend EBAY. Just make sure you read the seller's descriptions carefully and make suretheir feedbackis at least 98% positive.
well it is a wonderful product and I've had one for about 6 months now. I use it rear facing all the time and the only complaint is that takes some time to put in place. you have to run the seat belt across it and under the seat laches, takes time but hay safity first.
need to get the manual out anyway to see how to face it forward. as my son will be turning 1 this week and that is the law in Texas, they have to be 1 year and 20 pounds before you can face them forward.
I still might face him backward for a little bit longer! Just go and read what happens to a baby in a car wreck faceing forward and you will see what I mean.
I believe you just flip it the other way don't you? There's no buttons or anything you press to make it in to a forward-rear Mine came already in what I assume is the forward-facing position because my son fits just fine. I got the manual and it seems like allyou dois take the strapsout and move them up a notch so it fits over the child's shoulders better and instead of putting the seat in backward, you sit it forward. Right? Lol. Shows what I know.
you just face it to the front or to the rear, and dang your so lucky. i'm slobbering, just thinking about the possibilitys. lol
and, we're keeping noah rear facing till he's 2, I feel much better doing that.
please educate me. i am assuming this is a stroller that can be turned in to a car seat? i wish i'd heard of that when my grand daughter was tiny. amazing.
Yes, exactly, More over I wish I had been the one to invent it. grin, I don't know if I'll wait till two but I will wait a while.
My x has faced him forward sense he was 6 months and drove off sunday with him in a convertable with the top open. lovely! eh?
Sorry to say, Shawn, but your ex is very stupid and careless. Facing a baby forward at six months of age? Wow! Just freaking wow! That is a death risk. i'd love for the police to pull her over. ha ha ha. That is what she'd get. At least, you have some sense. Apparently, she has not watched the videos of test baby dummies get into car crashes...
I've contacted the company that makes the sit 'n' stroll and they were so helpful. They took the time to answer any questions I had. It is a bit pricy. This site might have distributors in your area:
http://www.tripleplayproducts.com/retailer_list.asp
For the time being I'm using a Cosco Scenera carseat and I just wear her when we are out.
HTH
Actually, in answer to post 8, I was facing forward at 6 months of age, back in the 1980s when these rear-facing baby car seats weren't around and the only other alternative would've been a carry cot strapped in to a special harness, taking over most if not all the back seat of the car. Nothing else for it. I was in a huge great plastic armchair thingy complete with the big upright side wing things and a 5 point safety harness as my only protection in a crash. These seats sloped quite steeply back so the child's basically reclining all the time, so I can see how that might've protected some children in a crash, plus they were fixed to a metal frame which you pushed through the back of the back seat in the car and the frame had the seatbelt guide on it to thread the belt through, although in my case, two of the cars mum used this seat in with me, didn't have seatbelts in the back, lol. Mind you, the only crash where I was actually in this seat in the back of the car, was when mum was driving through a somewhat rough area of London, well, Brixton to be precise, and this bloke, complete with ghettoblaster pinged off the car bonnet as he chanced his luck across the road, lol. No-one was hurt though, lol. Same applied with some of my friends back then, they were in these armchairs too, lol. We're all grown up, still here to relive those experiences anyway, lol.
Jen.
but just because that's what happened in the 80's, doesn't mean that things haven't changed. It's like saying "my grandad smoked all his life and he didn't die of lung cancer so smoking really isn't that bad for you, honest.
The recommendation is for children to be rear-facing now until they are 4/5, and the law is that they have to be in a carseat until they are eleven (here in the UK). That didn't happen in the 80's either.
Putting a six month old baby in a front-facing carseat is bloody irresponsible.
Actually, I knew some six-year-olds still in boosters before the law on car seats till age 11 came in to force.
Er, and as an afterthought, babies can be in a forward facing group 1 child seat from 13 KG or 9 months old. I would be somewhat concerned to still find a rear-facing 4-year-old with his legs wrapped round his neck in the front of a car because he's too big to sit like that in the front or back seats, child seat or no child seat. The 6-month-old mentioned in a previous post must've been quite a heavy baby at birth if he was already forward facing and the driver hadn't been stopped or pulled over because the child was in a group 1 car seat at this young age.
Jen.
The point is, it's not safe these days to have a child facing the front of the car at such a young age. Six months? Wonder what's going ot happen twenty years from now in terms of all these regulations because they change a lot.
Seriously. We might all be forced to sit in car seats. Lol.
Especially if you're 5 Ft nothing like me. Seatbelt still wraps round my neck today instead of resting over your shoulder as is the norm, lol.
I've read that the American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends rear-facing until two years. Even though my dd is tall, 27.5 inches at six months, I'd rather a broken leg in an accident over a spinal cord injury or worse any day. Babies are very flexible.