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Noelle says
Help! I’m traveling solo with my 12-month-old in a few weeks, and I’m trying to figure out how to handle the car seat situation. So far, I’ve only traveled places with her where I’ve been able to get from the airport to the hotel via public transportation. This time I have to rent a car. She’s in a convertible car seat (too long for the bucket seat anymore), and I was planning to have her sit on my lap for the flight so that I don’t have to pay for the extra seat. Do I (a) bring my own convertible car seat, check it once I get to the airport, and then install it into the rental car, (b) rent a car seat along with the car, or (c) some other option I’m not thinking of? If (a), should I be concerned about a rental car not having those latches that make car-seat installation pretty easy, or is it really just older cars that are latch-less? If (b), should I be worried about the quality of the car seat and/or the possibility that when I show up at the rental car place, no car seat will actually be there? Thanks in advance!
JJ says
We’ve rented cars several times now (with Hertz, I believe) with car seats included. They’ve always been in the car when we got there, but not installed. All newer cars (I believe) have the latch system, so installation was relatively easy.
Compared to what we own, the car seats were not top-of-the-line. But they were safe, they worked, and they saved us from lugging our giant seats through the airport.
Lyssa says
You can check your car seat at the airport for free, so that’s definitely an option, though, of course, this gives you more to lug around. If you’d rather not do that, you can definitely get one from the car rental place. There is usually an additional fee, and I have seen some horror stories about getting bad, dirty, or non-existent seats from rental companies, and you will likely have to install it yourself (the company doesn’t want to be liable). I wouldn’t worry about the car not being set up for it. I would definitely go ahead and call the rental car company and make sure that you have one with your reservation.
FWIW, we rented a car from Hertz (in Philly) last month with a car seat, and it worked out very well. The seat was fine (not quite as nice as the one that we have, but perfectly fine) and the car was well-equipped for it. I hate doing the installation, but that’s either way. I would definitely do it again, just to avoid having to cart around the seat, especially if I were on my own. The addition of the seat was free with our AAA membership, though it seemed like the usual fees are in the $15-$20 range.
Good luck!
Maddie Ross says
We’ve checked car seats (for free) several times and been happy with it. We bought a carry bag at Babies R Us that has wheels and protected it for like $20. They have nicer ones, which honestly if I had to do it again, I would probably buy (studier, some backpack options, which would be nice). Once we get to booster level, I’ll probably just rent, but for now, I like knowing that my child is in a good seat.
anonymom says
When our daughter got big enough to use the airplane seat belt, we started checking our convertible car seat in a big drawstring carry bag. You can check a car seat for free at the baggage check counter, and I believe you can also take it to the gate and gate-check it if you are worried about its getting lost. All rental cars should have LATCH.
We still check our booster seat. I don’t trust car rental companies to actually have a seat in stock when I’ve reserved one (seeing as they are routinely “out” of the class of car I have reserved), and you can’t exactly drive away from the airport with the kid and no seat.
Meg Murry says
option a-2: if your seat is big/heavy/expensive or you don’t want to risk it being lost or damaged when you check it, buy a Cosco Scenara for under $50 and take that with you – probably costs the same or less than renting a seat and you know it is clean and functional. Chances are very good that this is the seat you will get from the rental company, or a similar one.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Cosco-Scenera-Convertible-Car-Seat-Zahari/21128095
Noelle says
Thanks, all! I think I’m going to rent the car seat so that I have one less thing to lug around at the airport. And I’m going to practice installing our car seat before I travel so that process can go as smoothly as possible. Appreciate the input!
baby in the city says
People who live in the city and take cabs/ubers – what do you do about a car seat? Do you have one as part of your stroller? Or just resign yourself to buses and trains only?
pockets says
This is a matter of comfort, but some people take the baby in a carrier in a taxi. I’d feel fine doing that but I can understand that many people wouldn’t.
(former) preg 3L says
In a NYC taxi, there is no law requiring your baby is in a car seat. In an uber car, you need to have a car seat, but some ubers come with car seats (or so I’m told).
anonymom says
Our Britax infant seat/carrier could be restrained without a base using the seat belt. NYC also has special car services that provide car seats. But we only use public transportation or rental cars when traveling with our child.
Baby in London - same question says
Do you need a car seat in a London cab?
Lorelai Gilmore says
Legends car service in Brooklyn used to regularly have car seats.
anon in nyc says
It’s super annoying, but I always take a car seat for taxi/uber because of this:
http://thecarseatlady.com/will-a-babybjorn-or-other-soft-infant-carrier-protect-a-child-in-a-taxi/
because it’s so annoying to schlep a car seat, I try to minimize car rides and go places via subway or taking the stroller.
CPA Lady says
Sleep safety question– when did you start letting your kid sleep with something like a lovey in their crib? When my daughter takes a nap in her bouncer, I put one of those aden & anais muslin blankets on her lap, and she likes to hold onto her lovey and rub it on her face as she falls asleep. The lovey is a small stuffed owl head attached to a “blanket” that’s about 10″ x 10″.
I haven’t let her sleep with it in her crib yet, and don’t use a blanket on her when she sleeps. She’s 6 months old. What do y’all do?
Lyssa says
This was a source of disagreement between my husband and me. I was OK with letting him sleep with a (single) stuffed animal in the corner of the crib (he couldn’t really reach it, anyway when he was tiny), but did not want blankets unless he was swaddled. My husband would sometimes put a blanket on him, saying that it would help him sleep or keep him warm, and I would take it off, and he would say that I was being silly, and so on. But my intent was no blankets until after a year. I still don’t like to put thick blankets in with him (he’s over 2), particularly because he often manages to put them over his face or head, though my husband still thinks that I’m being silly about it.
mascot says
By six months, my child was rolling both ways and learning to crawl so we felt that he could move his head to keep his face uncovered. I think we had a toy or two in the crib by that point and bumpers. It’s really all about your comfort level with your baby’s mobility.
JJ says
6 months for us was when we incorporated (the same!) lovey for both of our kids. By that time, they were rolling around and almost sitting up, so we felt like they would be ok with a small muslin lovey. Agree that it just depends on comfort level.
And if your child takes to the loveys like mine did….buy many many many extras.
Chronic Overachiever says
My baby is the same age as your daughter and has slept holding a small toy fox for 2 months. He rolls around his crib all night (flipping from back to front and front to back multiple times) and has been doing so for awhile. I noticed that when I let him keep the fox in bed, he seemed to sleep longer stretches (but that could be because he is getting older…).
anne-on says
We gave my son a lovey (same one I think, ours was a lamb) in his crib by about 4 months. He also rolled over by 6 weeks, so we were comfortable that he could move it if needed. Agree about buying many, many extras if your child takes to their lovey. We have at least 4 for the house, plus one dedicated just to daycare.
Pigpen's Mama says
I asked our Ped about this at our 6 month appointment, she said it was fine. I tried it once, with what sounds like the frog version of your owl lovey, but then promptly freaked out and took it out of her crib when I saw her rubbing it on her face in the monitor. Of course, if she’s rubbing it on her face, one would think she can move it off her face, but I got nervous. She hasn’t really started moving around in her crib yet and we’ve got her in the Merlin Sleepsuit which seems to signal to her that it’s bedtime. But I may try again with the lovey once she’s out of the Merlin, since we’ll need something for her to associate with sleep.
anonymom says
Ours did not settle on a lovey until 10 months, and by that time we figured it was safe to let her sleep with it since she had already been crawling for months. We didn’t let her sleep with blankets until she was a year old and day care refused to allow sleep sacks on the grounds that they would interfere with evacuation in an emergency (infants were allowed sleep sacks because they couldn’t exactly walk out of the building on their own). We still kept her in sleep sacks at home until she started trying to climb out of the crib and we finally had to give her a blanket.
Her lovey was handmade by grandma and irreplaceable, so we had a strict “lovey never leaves the house” policy from day 1. She took a rotating cast of other “sleep buddies” to day care.
Spirograph says
I’m a bad parent, but ever since we discovered my 2 month old will sleep soundly in her bassinet as long as she is on top of her little fuzzy baby blanket, we have let her sleep on it. She sleeps on her back and aside from turning her head back and forth and moro reflexing with her arms, she doesn’t really move while she’s sleeping so I don’t see how she could possibly get the blanket over her face (I’ll definitely stop this once she can roll over). I think I kept plush-like things out of the crib a lot longer with my first baby, but we definitely used small blankets and had stuffed animals in there by the time he was about 6 months old. FWIW, I always put the blanket at waist height or maybe under the arms, and I never once came back to it covering baby’s face.
Nonny says
I’m with you Spirograph. I actually never freaked out about this all that much. We actually co-slept for the first six months but of course were very careful about things like pillows and blankets. When we transitioned to a crib between 6 and 7 months, we used a soft, fuzzy blanket to help our LO feel cozy. I never saw it cover her face and she was very mobile by that point anyway. Now she always ends up sleeping on that fuzzy blanket (she kind of makes herself a little nest on it), and once she falls asleep I cover her with another blanket. She also has a little stuffed bunny that she cuddles sometimes. She’s 14 months.
Spirograph says
oh yeah, we co slept too (not on purpose, it was just the easiest way for me to get the most sleep)… that’s why I was so happy to discover the blanket- in-the-bassinet trick a couple weeks ago. I checked on her every 15 minutes or so the first few hours, but after that I was satisfied that she wouldn’t smother herself. And now I don’t have the moro reflex arms waking me up! :) At least for the first half of the night. Once she wakes up hungry, I just bring her back to bed with me and rearrange the comforter so it’s away from her head.
Preeclampsia Q says
Hi ladies. I just got back from my 31 week appointment and my doctor thinks I may have preeclampsia. My blood pressure is not high and there does not appear to be extra protein in my urine, but she is concerned about the amount of swelling I have and resulting rapid weight gain (6 lbs in 2 weeks!). I have been put on a low sodium diet and she will re-evaluate next week to see whether the swelling has gone down or whether I am preeclamptic (in which case she wants me on bedrest and likely induction at 37 weeks). Has anyone been in a similar situation? I don’t understand how I can be preeclamptic if I don’t have high blood pressure, but on the other hand I don’t think the rapid swelling is due to sodium because I eat fairly low sodium to begin with. I will ofcourse follow doctor’s orders and discuss my concerns with her next week at my next appointment, but in the meantime I am very confused and worried and am hoping hearing your experiences will shed some light on the issue. Also – has anyone been diagnosed with preeclampsia and was allowed to deliver naturally (no induction or C-section)?
HM says
Did your BPs jump from previous readings? Even if they are still “good”, but are much higher for you, then it can be an indicator.
As for the low sodium diet, its really more a precaution that anything else. If you are preeclamptic, its not really going to help, but high-sodium exacerbates the problem.
I was diagnosed with preeclampsia week 28ish (I think). I ended up in the hospital and with a C-section, but the onset was much earlier and more severe than yours. I know people diagnosed with PreE about your same time frame that were induced and did not have C-section.
I am so sorry that you got this confusing information. Don’t go crazy with reading all the online scary things about PreE. Hopefully a bath or two with epsom salts, and maybe some light cardio (walking, etc.) will help take the water weight off?
Msj says
Dr was worried about pre-e at 37.5 wks and I ended up having a c-section that night as a result (I had twins with baby A being breech so different circumstances). I never had protein in the urine but my bp had been climbing steadily. Have you gotten a digital monitor so you can take your pressure throughout the day? Also obvious, but elevate your feet as much as possible
I had lingering gestational hypertension for about 10 days post partum and was on beta blockers until my bp finally normalized
Good luck!
Chronic Overachiever says
I was diagnosed with preeclampsia and I experienced significant swelling/weight gain and was feeling “off” about 9 days prior to officially being diagnosed. At the time, I asked my midwife if my sudden weight gain could be preeclampsia and she said no because I did not have high blood pressure. A little over a week later I was admitted to the emergency room with full blown preeclampsia and I was induced.
I firmly believe that if my midwife had taken my concerns more seriously at my appointment, that my entire birth experience could have been more positive and less traumatic. Your doctor may be seeing the early warning signs of preeclampsia even if you do not meet all of the criteria for an official diagnosis at this time.
Chronic Overachiever says
wrong spot.