Are we meant to have 4 car seats for 2 children

[ana7887]

Just want to see what's everyone doing with their car seats?
We have 2 children and 2 cars. I am driving during the week when my husband works and every time my husband drives over the weekend we change the seats into his car. Also my husband takes older one swimming so we change back again mid week.
My question is are we meant to have 4 car seats? Our car seats are around £100, so that's £400...

What's everyone else doing?

We have car seats for both cars as one of us drops off and the other picks up. No way of managing to get to work with only one car. Expensive but no other way round .

We only have one child in car seats and, except for her lie flat seat that she stopped using at about four months. We have always had two seats - one in each car. We buy them both at the same time. Parents in Law have their own car seat in their car
Her lie flat was like a carry cot, hideously expensive, strapped in with seatbelts and got moved from car to car - but we didn't need two because it was during lock down and we didn't go anywhere (we lived over half an hour from the hospital and couldn't get home in one trip without a lie flat)

Looks like there is no way around it, we just need to suck it up and buy second set of car seats. It is what I thought we will need to do eventually anyway just wanted to see how everyone else's solution was.

We do have my and his cars, always have, don't see a problem with that. Not going to swap cars, that's not for us. We are getting pretty tired of swapping them all the time. Sometimes one of us drives off with seats in and the other one is stuck at home. Not to mention that having seats in both cars will be more flexible for pick ups/drop offs.. which we will be doing in a couple of years for both kids.

Thanks everyone! 😃

We have 4 seats due to shift patterns often one of us drops the kids off while the other starts work early and then the other picks kids up while other works later.. we managed to get the second baby seat from a family member and thankful dc1 was into a high back booster before work changed resulting in the need for 4 seats

We have 4 seats. When they were younger, I had the more expensive and good quality ones and my husband had mid range ones.

We now have 4 of the same car seat and they're £120 each but will last until they're 12.

I could not be bothered with taking the seats out all of the time.

Cars seats for both. Husband and I both have SUV type cars so both could fit seats in fine

There's no way I could deal with the faff of removing and installing car seats all the time!

We have 4 car seats (2 children) Sometimes I will drop dc at nursery then dh will collect them, we don't see each other in between to swap seats or cars. They are mainly in my car and it's the one we use at weekends or if we're all going somewhere so we have good seats in it and we just bought 2nd hand seats for dh's car as it's rarely more than a 5 minute drive home from nursery.

We leave the car seat in the same car and whoever is driving the child uses that car. We're both fully insured on both cars so we just drive whichever one depending on whether we have the little one with us or not.

The car with the car seat is the reliable one, the car without the car seat is the 16 year old, slightly rusty one that cost us a few hundred quid 7 years ago and might give up at any moment!

When I was married, we both had a car seat in our car.

We have 4, initially it was due to the bloody Isofix things being so hard to mess about with. Due to busy schedules, dc after school activities etc for the sake of a couple of hundred pounds it makes so much easier. With the older seats they turn in to boosters etc, so it'll be the only seat they need until they grow out of them completely.

How old are the kids? The harnessed stage is the most expensive, once they go into high backed booster seats it does get cheaper and you can get something decent for about £50/60.

Mine were in car seats before Isofix was standard and DH had a car that wasn't very car seat friendly so we had seats in both cars plus my mum and PIL had their own seats too for DD2 as they looked after her one day a fortnight.

We have 2 kids, 2 cars and 4 car seats. Different ones in each car (first choice and next choice when we shopped for them). We don't want to be regularly moving and re-fitting them. They are expensive seats and we aren't overly wealthy but driving is the most dangerous thing we do so we didn't mind the cost (we spent less on the pushchair, cot etc.). The seats last several years too - longer than most other kid equipment.

We have 4 kids and have never owned a car.
We have however owned at least 12 car seats over the years. Ones to keep at ours 'just in case' a set with grandparents and a set with the babysitter / childminder.

We do but it's personal preference

We have 2 cars and 4 seats.
Husband does the school run in the morning on the way to work.
I do the pick up in the afternoon so we need 4 seats.
We don't drive each others cars so even if the school run wasn't a factor I think we would have 4 seats anyway.