Anonymous
01/22/2026 12:58
Subject: Car seat for travel after outgrowing cosco scenera next
Anonymous wrote:A ginormous 18 mo old will have to forward face. At some point it is more dangerous to stuff 'em in rear facing seats that are not designed for gargantuan babies.
At some point is not 18 months.
It’s not light weight but the Extend to Fit has the longest rear facing measures (or at least it did when we bought it).
Also a PSA that for some cars the LATCH system has a 40 lb weight limit so you would need to switch to belt at that time.
Anonymous
01/22/2026 00:02
Subject: Car seat for travel after outgrowing cosco scenera next
A ginormous 18 mo old will have to forward face. At some point it is more dangerous to stuff 'em in rear facing seats that are not designed for gargantuan babies.
Anonymous
01/20/2026 15:26
Subject: Car seat for travel after outgrowing cosco scenera next
Anonymous wrote:Graco Contender has a tall shell and worked for my 99+% kid rear facing until 2.75 or so at which point it worked forward facing and I was ok with that (yes rear facing would have been safer but she was 41 or so inches and there just aren't good options). Its also pretty narrow and fit in airplane seats.
If your 18 month old is 36" now even fast growing toddlers don't really grow more than 5 inches a year so you likely will make it to 2.5 yrs in the Contender. Also at some point their legs grow rather than their torsos and that helps too, so you might make it longer.
Oh and just for fun kid just turned 6 last month and is 51 inches tall .... our travel car seat progression after the Contender was Contender FF until about 4 and then the ride safer vest (she outgrew FF harnessed seats before she was 5) and now she rides in a Graco tranzitions hbb and when we travel we just bring the bottom booster and not the hbb part.
Anonymous
01/20/2026 15:21
Subject: Car seat for travel after outgrowing cosco scenera next
Graco Contender has a tall shell and worked for my 99+% kid rear facing until 2.75 or so at which point it worked forward facing and I was ok with that (yes rear facing would have been safer but she was 41 or so inches and there just aren't good options). Its also pretty narrow and fit in airplane seats.
If your 18 month old is 36" now even fast growing toddlers don't really grow more than 5 inches a year so you likely will make it to 2.5 yrs in the Contender. Also at some point their legs grow rather than their torsos and that helps too, so you might make it longer.
If your 18 month old is 36" now even fast growing toddlers don't really grow more than 5 inches a year so you likely will make it to 2.5 yrs in the Contender. Also at some point their legs grow rather than their torsos and that helps too, so you might make it longer.