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🤰🏽Pregnant mamas—listen up! Let’s make sure you are driving safe in the seat too!
First and foremost—always wear a seat belt. Always. And, NO, you do not need to add a pregnancy seat belt adjuster or shoulder strap pad or anything else to your vehicle!
If you just cannot achieve the safest fit possible, then the safest thing to do is to have someone else drive and you ride in the passenger seat with it pushed far back. Obviously, that is not always possible so you need to make as many adjustments as you can to get this proper fit and then assess your own risk tolerance and what is best for you.
Once you’re safe in your seat, let’s make sure that new bundle of joy is too! Head to all 🔗 then ▶️ Infant for great resources, freebies, videos and more!
Tag an expecting mama who may need this info!
#drivingwhilepregnant #pregnantdriver #seatbeltsafety #pregnantbellybump #safeintheseat
First and foremost—always wear a seat belt. Always. And, NO, you do not need to add a pregnancy seat belt adjuster or shoulder strap pad or anything else to your vehicle!
If you just cannot achieve the safest fit possible, then the safest thing to do is to have someone else drive and you ride in the passenger seat with it pushed far back. Obviously, that is not always possible so you need to make as many adjustments as you can to get this proper fit and then assess your own risk tolerance and what is best for you.
Once you’re safe in your seat, let’s make sure that new bundle of joy is too! Head to all 🔗 then ▶️ Infant for great resources, freebies, videos and more!
Tag an expecting mama who may need this info!
#drivingwhilepregnant #pregnantdriver #seatbeltsafety #pregnantbellybump #safeintheseat
#duet with @lukas #confronting this guy deserves a gold freaking medal for keeping his cool. FAA approved car seats are absolutely allowed on an domestic airplane, regardless of age of child, if you purchased an airplane seat for that car seat and your child to sit in. Sadly, you often have to fight for your right to car seat due to uninformed or misinformed flight attendants. Have a screenshot of the FAA regulations on your phone. Know where the sticker is on your seat. Our wheels up course has a download for you to print out ans bring with you too if this crap happens. So sorry for this family who alrrady had to juggle so much with two kids and two car seats ans then had to deal with this BS. #carseatairplane #flyingwithkids #safeinthrseat
Most manufacturers prohibit the use of both methods at the same time because they either did not crash-test using both systems or they did a crash-test using both and the test FAILED. Use one method or the other, NOT BOTH.
So what could happen if you do use both
🚫 put more stress on the belt path than it can withstand causing the seat to break
🚫 concentrate the crash forces on a smaller area and not diffuse them across the car seat (and your child’s body)
🚫 impact the “ride down” effect that happens after a crash, causing the lower anchor or seatbelt webbing to not react the way it’s intended to
🚫 make you think you have a tight installation when you actually don’t
🚫 cross over one another or overlap and interfere with their ability to activate properly in a crash
🚫 break the lock off if both methods are being routed through one
*The exception (because there always are): Clek Foonf (when forward-facing) and all seats in the Nuna Pipa series can be installed using both lower anchors and a seatbelt at the same time.
#carseatsafety #safeintheseat #loweranchors #seatbelt #carseat
So what could happen if you do use both
🚫 put more stress on the belt path than it can withstand causing the seat to break
🚫 concentrate the crash forces on a smaller area and not diffuse them across the car seat (and your child’s body)
🚫 impact the “ride down” effect that happens after a crash, causing the lower anchor or seatbelt webbing to not react the way it’s intended to
🚫 make you think you have a tight installation when you actually don’t
🚫 cross over one another or overlap and interfere with their ability to activate properly in a crash
🚫 break the lock off if both methods are being routed through one
*The exception (because there always are): Clek Foonf (when forward-facing) and all seats in the Nuna Pipa series can be installed using both lower anchors and a seatbelt at the same time.
#carseatsafety #safeintheseat #loweranchors #seatbelt #carseat