Re sitting in the back next to DC in car seat -

[herecomesthsun]

We have a DC aged 3 y 8m. Since he was a baby, if we go out as a family, we usually have one parent sitting in the back with him to keep him company/ make sure he is ok. We have DC2 due next month and will need 2 car seats, obvious place being both in the back of the car. We like rear facing and have a rear-facing Two Way elite in situ currently. It is going to be very difficult to squeeze a parent in the back past the car seats! I wondered whether anyone else has preferred having an adult with the children and whether you have managed to organise your car seats accordingly?

The only time I have sat in the back with DD is on the journey home from the hospital after she was born. And that was mainly because the car seat DH bought wasn't really suitable for newborns (he bought it because it said "from birth" but we all know that "from birth" doesn't actually mean that), and she looked like she was hanging out of it.

Other than that, if there's been an old person in the car with us, they've had the front seat so no choice but to sit in the back.

I'd say you're being a bit PFB, (or PSB now) and that you should take your seat in the front now.

at Shat - i like it Shatners
(didn't even get the reference until You pointed it out... )

my pfb has always been at the back since she was born

i need my leg room

still not understanding the problem

I must say I do always have an internal giggle at an adult sat in the back with their baby (and not as 'that's the only seat')

People must laugh at us, though, as DH sits in the back and baby in the front passanger seat (no airbag on that side) as the car is ancient 3-door and no carseats we tried fitted on the back seat.

Omg I'm crying at 'shat' and at the main worry of OP being that PFB might hit baby with a hammer if she doesn't sit in back of car

Actually, My DH used to sit in the back with PFB to catch PFB's vomit in a bowl, as he vommed after 10 minutes EVERY car journey.

Then we had PSB, and we taught PFB to catch his own vomit in a bowl, and tell us to stop so we could wash the bowl out. Then PSb started getting sick too.

Then we gave up on travelling, really.

O my life is so glamorous

I missed the hammer...!

FWIW I always sat in the back with ds, but that was so I could bf him which is even worse and makes me need to go to prison at once.

Also dd but that was because she screamed ceaselessly "I'm stuck I'm stuck I'm stuck" for how ever many hours the journey lasted and it was dangerous for the driver to be driven utterly berserk and mental.

(weak with laughter here) OP, mix it up a bit - have one DC in the front and one in the back, or both DCs in the front if you want to stretch your legs. .
In all seriousness, though, the hammer story is scary. Just make sure your DCs don't have a hammer or anything else weapony wiht them and you'll be fine.

Pmsl @ ShitnersBassoon!

Op - you are very silly. Get in the front of the car like the adult you are, and cease the silliness.

Kids in the back, adults in the front.

OP you are finding a problem where there isn't one. Good luck with number two, it's lovely but you'll probably have less time to worry about stuff like this.

Honestly, you need to get them used to being in the back in their own! They will be fine. I honestly can't see what could possibly happen to cause them harm with you in the front

I imagine that most of the posters telling you not to worry and relax in the front seat have been through it like me, and frankly, can't see the harm in children having to entertain themselves in the back. All hammers removed obviously

We used to have a Vauxhall vectra and I could only fit one bum cheek between the car seats did it once when the tent took pride of place in the front seat.....never again.

What's with the pfb threads today? Another OP has got pasted in AIBU about a chocolate Labrador/ferret at nursery

Love it.

It never crossed my mind to sit in the back with the dc

And what was the uncle doing with a hammer?!

I've never liked that uncle.

I had to once or twice when the wee ones were little babies....as dh could not drive when they were screaming....but it honestly ever occurred to me to make it a regular thing. Sitting in the back sucks. I'm an adult and need the space in the front seat.
I quite like car journeys in a perverse way - we listen to music and the kids can't jump all over me.

I know that uncle. He turned out OK. Works in B&Q.

You made that up, didn't you Shat?

Yes, I shat it out of my imagination.

Pmsl

Maybe it was bob the builder

Please link me to the chocloate ferret/labrador thread, I really need to read it.

ferret

Please stop Shat n' Hully - am in the office for pity's sake.

Oh the ferret thread is gooooood

Op, check the backseat for ferrets before you strap 'em in.

And Labradors.