DC trip with infant and no car seat

[Anonymous]

Uber car seats are not for infants.

[Anonymous]

Bring the car seat.
You will need it on the airplane because the regular seat belts on the airplane can not accommodate an infant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't do MARC. Metro to Greenbelt and take the $6 Metrobus shuttle to BWI. Much more reliable service.

ooh good hint!

yes OP your plan sounds fine as long as you're sure you won't be taking any cabs. worse comes to worse you can run to target for a $50 carseat. Personally I think installing carseats is such a PITA that I would gladly take Metro! You will want to plan well so you don't get stuck overheating somewhere.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, all. Glad to hear the MARC shuttle is a bus and we will (likely) be as to pull this off.

We do not have an infant seat--went straight to the convertible. We'll be bringing our lightweight small stroller. Baby will be big enough to sit in a high chair at restaurants during our trip.

And obviously we're flying with baby as a lap infant.

[Anonymous]

Uber car seat isn't for infants. They're just boosters. Bring the car seat OPX what if you want to hop in a cab? Bring it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bring a seat.

+ 1

[Anonymous]

Re: installing a seat, with the infant seat you don't do the base. Read the manual / watch a YouTube video - it takes me less than a minute to string the seatbelt through my infant's carsest for Lyft.

FYI, I fly with snap and go / car seat combo. It's easy. Harder with an older kid since convertable seats are harder to transport and install.

[Anonymous]

Pp here;

I agree the bus / metro combo is more reliable for Greenbelt.

Another argument for bringing the seat is a plan if he gets sick - we were just on a trip without our older one's seat and she got sick. We did it know what to do if we needed urgent care (a car service with a seat picked us up and drove us to hotel). What if it's middle of night and no public transit?

[Anonymous]

Again, we don't have an infant seat, and I have no desire to get one given that baby is already 4 months (will be 7 months at the trip) and our convertible seats works just fine. But given that we don't want to rent a car for this trip, lugging around a big heavy seat is something we want to avoid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp here;

I agree the bus / metro combo is more reliable for Greenbelt.

Another argument for bringing the seat is a plan if he gets sick - we were just on a trip without our older one's seat and she got sick. We did it know what to do if we needed urgent care (a car service with a seat picked us up and drove us to hotel). What if it's middle of night and no public transit?

Will break ranks with DCUM on this one.

In the above scenario, just get in a cab and go to urgent care. You don't need to call a car service with a car seat. There are car seat exemptions for taxis. I know that most people on this board would straight up call this child abuse, but if your kid is sick enough to necessitate a middle of the night trip to urgent care, just get in a cab.

[Anonymous]

Bring a seat

[Anonymous]

Op who mentioned urgent care...somehow I'd missed you don't have an infant seat. Sorry. Is there one you could borrow? I agree that flying with a convertible is a pain and also they're hard to lug around / install.

We were in CA for our vacation which does not have an exception for no carsest in emergency (i.e. There's a chance a cab would turn us away, though I imagine some might have taken us if needed). D.C. I believe does have an exception allowing children to use cabs without carsest, as another posted, so that would work in emergency.

I'd be surprised if you can't find a friend whose seat you could borrow, but otherwise for purposes of trip sounds like your mind is made up!

[Anonymous]

Sorry that should say PP who mentioned urgent care - typo.

[Anonymous]

Bring an infant seat and a snap and go. Won't you want to not have a hot potato attached to you and making you drenched in sweat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uber car seat isn't for infants. They're just boosters. Bring the car seat OPX what if you want to hop in a cab? Bring it.

I have had harnesses in the Uber cars many times.