DD is currently 9 months. But she's tall (long?) and has very nearly outgrown the iSize Maxi Cosi baby seat we bought when she was first born, which clips onto the silver cross buggy frame.
In our own car she is in the next Maxi Cosi seat up (when DH is here to do the driving) however I don't drive and the bus services where we live are laughable so I take a lot of taxis with her in the original baby seat, which I just fit to the pram when we get where we are going. Job done!
However she's so big now it seems mean to have her crammed into that little seat for any length of time. Also she's going to outgrow it very very soon. And then I'll be stuck!
I have been trying to pass my driving test for some time - I was optimistic that would be out the way before this became an issue. But here we are, and I'm still not on the road. I'm starting to panic about getting trapped in the house, we live in the West of Scotland and the weather is quite often abysmal to the point where walking any distance with the pram is out of the question.
In an ideal world I'd like a bigger, portable car seat that can be easily carried at the other end or that will fit in the bottom of the pram, so I know she is safe in taxis but we aren't hampered by me having to lug something heavy and cumbersome around at the other end.
Does such a thing exist? Is anyone else in the same situation and what did you do? I'll go mad if I can't get out and about during the week. The woman in Mothercare looked at me like I'd grown an extra head when I enquired in there.
In case anyone is wondering how on earth I managed before DD came along, we lived in the city centre. And before that, in Central London. Having a car would have been impractical in both locations. However we needed more space when DD was born and when we decided to move here I didn't realise I would be so bad at driving (or that DD would have a serious aversion to sleep, leaving me with permanent brain fog that makes learning anything new very very difficult)
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Help! Car seat needed for a 9 month old with a non-driving mum?
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missg00se · 19/05/2017 10:04
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