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[lollardfish]

Do I need to buy this?

P.S. Reinstalling the car seat. May it be full when we come home.

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[madtruk.livejournal.com]

Short answer: No. Long Answer:

The trick all parents learn is to literally kneel in the seat while you are tightening the belt, the, depending on your belt, either you are all set or you have to install a metal 'belt holder' that comes standard on all child seats.

Regardless of anything else, car seat bases are still proving to be tremendously unreliable (the kind of seat sold most often for newborns with a carrier that snaps in and out), so please, strap the seat in but leave the base at home(in a recent government test, 9/10 or some outrageously high number of bases failed to prevent injury, some severe).

"Won't you come home lil Nico, won't you come home..." :-)

[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

We can't strap in our seat without the base though. It's a carrier that snaps into the base.

The kneeling trick is good to know. I lacked leverage this morning. And it was COLD. But I just pulled a lot.

[madtruk.livejournal.com]

Ah-

Ours had dual capability-it could go in with or without the base. You may want to check your instruction manual just to be sure, though.

[neugotik.livejournal.com]

ours had both capacities too but I didn't realize for the longest time.

I thought I needed the base too; I think some you do, others have a belt option to skip the base "snap in/snap out" option...

[bethlet.livejournal.com]

When my husband says: Do you want the short answer or the long answer? This nearly always results in

Short answer: No.
Long answer: Nnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

:)

[madtruk.livejournal.com]

If I did this all the time it would go like this:

Short Answer: No
Long Answer: NooooooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW OW OW OW OW!

Or something similar.