Car seat blankets?

[sickmumma]

I have heard a few people mention about car seat blankets as you are not supposed to use all in one coats in the car seat. Can anyone recommend one for me please?

Any blanket will do? Cellular or nice knitted/woven/cotton ones, just not non breathable fleece ones.

Star blankets from tuppence and crumble are so nice, you can fasten a car seat over them x

I have just seen maxi cosi do a footmuff for their car seats! Does anyone have one and would you recommend?

I’ve just bought a Maxi Cosi footmuff from “Precious Little Ones” for £35 reduced from £50! I don’t know how good/useful it will be but my baby is due at the very beginning of December so I figured it would be worth it (spent more on the car seat and accessories than anything else!).

Please remember that your car will warm up as you go along, it's better for baby to be to cold than too hot.

morrck.com/product-category/baby-hoodie-travel-wraps/

You want this OP! The beauty of it is the car seat straps go through holes in the blanket. Then you pop baby in seat on top of blanket, strap in, wrap blanket around baby. Baby nice and warm. Get in car. Car warms up. Simply unwrap blanket.

I got one for DD1. Was brilliant!

Honestly, don't buy anything special. A normal cellular blanket is best as baby won't overheat and can kick it off if s/he gets too hot. Too cold is better than too hot and in heated cars thick blankets just aren't needed.

We have Morrck blankets. You can usually pick them up second hand for a good price, check out facebook selling groups or EBay.

I just use one of her regular blankets if I use anything.

You shouldn't even really use the blankets that the car seat straps go through. They seem well designed but if you research they haven't been tested for safety.

Just a light blanket on the baby's legs will be fine. Don't bundle them too much though as you will presumably put on the heating.

Just use a normal blanket over the straps. Anything fastened in might not be safe and also is harder to remove quickly when the car heats up
Special blankets are not worth the money

morrck.com/safety/
Just to add that Morrck are safety tested, and they are really no more faffy to take off than a normal blanket would be i.e. not at at all.

Morrck is the only crash tested product you can use IN the carseat, but you can obviously used any blanket OVER the carseat straps.

@anothermnname we had one for Ds1 and used it all the time when he was tiny (he was a November baby). It has toggles so he couldn't kick it off and didn't interfere with the straps so I could stick him in, in his babygrow, do up the straps, do up the blanket and go.
It can be expensive but in my opinion was well worth the money. I'll use it again with DS2.