Baby wearing moms (or anyone willing to answer)?
rainwriterm asked:
This doesn’t directly relate to baby wearing, but I figure that those who do may be able to give me the insight that I am looking for. I keep hearing that it is perfectly safe to clip infant seats onto the fold down portion of the shopping cart. The reasoning is that since the car seats have a clipping mechanism, it is safe. I thought that the clipping mechanism on the infant seats is for clipping onto the bars in the base of the seat or onto the stroller that came with the travel system. Since these bars are so much thicker than those on shopping carts, I don’t see how this is safe. Just because it DOES clip doesn’t mean that it SHOULD.
This doesn’t directly relate to baby wearing, but I figure that those who do may be able to give me the insight that I am looking for. I keep hearing that it is perfectly safe to clip infant seats onto the fold down portion of the shopping cart. The reasoning is that since the car seats have a clipping mechanism, it is safe. I thought that the clipping mechanism on the infant seats is for clipping onto the bars in the base of the seat or onto the stroller that came with the travel system. Since these bars are so much thicker than those on shopping carts, I don’t see how this is safe. Just because it DOES clip doesn’t mean that it SHOULD.
So, help me out here. Is this actually safe? Some say that their manuals say that it is safe and that is how to do it, but I haven’t been able to find any. What can you share with me?
its not safe!!!! in most carts the seat will clip, but hold the seat too high to have any other support point. put the seat in the basket, or use a sling/wrap/carrier for the baby. I love the shopping carts with built in baby seats, i just put a blanket under the baby.
I never could find in my owner’s manual that those straps are supposed to be used for a shopping cart. It doesn’t seem safe to me at all, which is why I wear my baby in a Baby Bjorn while I shop.
As far as I know, it says not to even on the shopping cart and on the car seat. I just put her carrier on the end of the cart because it narrows at the end and she clips onto there and she loves to look at other things. I can’t use a carrier due to a shoulder injury or I have my mom watch her or daddy but usually I just either stick her in the whole part of the cart or at the very end. I definitely don’t put it in the toddler seat part. That’s known that it is not safe.
In the UK it is often a large basket that it ‘clicks’ into but saying that it clicks is not really a correct term it fits into the basket and there are usually straps to strap it in, alot of car seats don’t have bars to click as such if they are newborn carriers as they don’t have a base in the car and the bars are rockers for when used as a seat in the house.
There are also carriers instead of the seat where an older child sits. These are like a baby carseat/ carrier without any padding in a laid back style imagine an elongated ‘v’ shape that the baby goes in. They don’t have padding but they do have straps. If your car seat is not safe in the car seat carrier one then you would use one of these.
I don’t think they were designed specifically with shopping carts in mind, so I’d never do it. Plus I prefer to wear my daughter, and now that she’s a toddler, I alternate with that or putting her in the cart’s seat with my cart cover on it.
I dont think it is safe. some carts can hold them well but most carts do not hold them securly and hold them at too much of an angle. when i do bring the carseat in i just put it directly in the cart.
I agree with you. An infant car seat is specifically for use with the car seat base that you buy with it and of course the stroller if it’s part of a travel system.
It was certainly not in my manual that you could use it with a grocery cart.
It seems to me to be a common sense thing. If my sons carrier clicked on the handle and was sturdy and stable, I would put it in the cart and be relatively ok with it. If not, then I would figure out another way to carry him around the store. Or I would go to a grocery store that had the seats built into the cart itself.
Again, it boils down to common sense and gut feeling. If it doesn’t feel secure, chances are it isn’t.
NOPE! It is not safe at all to put an infant seat on top of the grocery cart. The only safe way is to put it in the basket.
Some people complain that then they can’t shop, but my child’s safety always comes before my convenience.
My graco manual specifically says its unsafe.
The APA says it is unsafe to put kids alone in carts because they are tippy, let alone a heavy bloody car seat.
If the person with the tippy links doesn’t show up I’ll try and dredge em up in a bit.
I never did it, not when our son was young and when we went/go shopping with our baby, she is/was in her sling. I don’t trust what is written in that little hand-out when it comes to shopping carts…it just doesn’t seem safe.
You are right: just because it does clip doesn’t mean it should- and I would **** to be the one to find out the hard way that it doesn’t. Oh…the image- not good.
I don’t use the clip (if it clips down I just get annoyed more than anything else)
Is it safe? (the car seat manufacturers aren’t going to open themselves up the the liability, especially when they can’t prove the quality or intactness of the seat) its about as safe as setting a child on the top of a cart relatively unsecured.
If you’re willing to do it, do it.
Myself personally, when I do it, I’m closer than arm’s reach at all times to pick up the carrier if something goes wrong (like a ten year old cruising down the aisles with a cart as a skateboard and knocking into mine).
They can, but if you read the warning label on the side of the seat, it most likely says not to.