Do we really need car seat to be compatible?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you have no idea how tired you will be. No. Freaking. Idea. I did all sorts of things I wasn’t expecting because my body simply couldn’t handle another minute of consciousness. Buya the snap-in. If you have an easy baby, then use it like a traditional car seat. If you have a colicky baby, you will want every spare 30 seconds. My mom was an ER nurse for decades. She said my first was so fussy, he’d have been given morphine if we’d taken him to the ER. It turned out to be a soy allergy that was causing reflux.

The point is, plan on having a high-needs child. If you turn out to have an easy baby, you’ll be over-prepared, but that’s not a problem. It’s very, very difficult to plan for a normal baby and then that 1%er turns up.

I should also add that I only need 6.5 hours of sleep on a regular night. Unless you are fully rested on four hours a night, you will be exhausted after months of broken sleep.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s bad for their spines to be in the semi reclined position before 6 months. It can also be a positional asphyxiation risk in the first couple months because their head can slump down on their chest. I took those risks seriously (mostly the spine one) and did not have a stroller compatible car seat. I never let my baby sleep in her car seat and put her in the stroller with bassinet attachment for all walks.

Your baby never fell asleep in the car??

She’s a horrendous sleeper and no, literally only once until she was 18 months, and that time I took her straight out to finish the nap elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s bad for their spines to be in the semi reclined position before 6 months. It can also be a positional asphyxiation risk in the first couple months because their head can slump down on their chest. I took those risks seriously (mostly the spine one) and did not have a stroller compatible car seat. I never let my baby sleep in her car seat and put her in the stroller with bassinet attachment for all walks.

Your baby never fell asleep in the car??

She’s a horrendous sleeper and no, literally only once until she was 18 months, and that time I took her straight out to finish the nap elsewhere.

This is very unusual.