They outgrew a carseat @4mo? The Graco Snug ride still fit my 5yo until last yr. She is now in Turbo Booster. You must be thinking the tiny infant seats-which are a TOTAL WASTE IMO because they do outgrow them quickly-but you can buy the pillows that shrink the space.

The tiny carseats are easy to tote around by comparision to the one pic'd here

isisaquaria - your five year old was in a SungRide until last year? A five year old who still faces backwards and fits in a SnugRide must be a tiny tiny child since they only are recommended to like 25 lbs!

I agree with ikate... I can't imagine a 5 year old still riding rearfacing in a Snugride (which is typically only up to 22lbs and 29inches). The seat pictured above I believe is a Snugride, just sitting in the base incorrectly.

My five yr old doesn't weigh but 30 lbs now and didn't break that until earlier this yr-she wears 3t pants and tops. She is only 30 in tall now-- she will
it was the beginning of last yr, but yes-she still fit in a similar type car seat --Babiesrus type of this model-
I looked it up- @ 5yr check-up she weighed 25 lbs.

I should clarify perhaps, no infant should be in a Graco Snugride if they are over 29" long and/or 22lbs. If you read the directions that come with the carseat, as most parents I have noticed DO NOT, most kids grow out of these car seats much before their first year. Far too often I see babies too long, too tall, and way too fat stuffed into them and that is a serious risk to injury and life in the event of a car accident. At 30" your daughter isiquaria, should have been out a long time ago.

Both my boys reached 29" at or just before 4 months, so they were transferred to convertibles at that point. Please parents, read the directions that come with your car seat!

As for my boys, they are not freakishly tall. Or big. My oldest is outside the 99th percentile for height at 3 years, but not far at over 42", and my youngest is just within the 99th percentile. If perhaps they were far above the percentiles there would be an issue - of course folks keep asking me what kindergarten my oldest attends.... But they are ignorant and are not watching the obviously age appropriate behavior he exhibits.

Ethel- speaking of reading--I wrote she is 30in NOW and to add only months shy of six and I wrote that it was the beginning of last yr (2007)-so, my mistake, she was 4, not yet five. I read the instuctions to several car seats as I wanted to move her out of it much quicker-trust me. I am offended that you assume I did not... Like I said-@ 5yr check up- she weighed 25lbs and not even tall enough @ 27 in She just now (last check Feb 2008) is hitting 30lbs and as of yesterday,(because of this article) we measured her height @31". Her weight has actually dropped to 28 lbs by my home scale. She is for lack of a better word "a shrimp" and I have the same problems you do, except in reverse--people are amazed that she can talk so well and converse with them etc for a toddler.

She has no desire to eat. She eats in a week, what most kids eat in a day. She eats solely because we make her- I do not think I have ever heard her say I am hungry. We have vitamins and all kinds of stuff. She has been tested for everything under the sun, our dr have not seen this is a 37wk (basically term child) that weighed just over 6lbs at birth. She did get very ill at 6mo due to allergy to milk and lost down to 5 lbs. And, it took forever to recover.

It is nice to a point-she doesn't outgrow clothes-she wears them out. But because of her size, she can't wear some of the stuff she wants.

My 5yo is an extremely small child, but even @4 mo none of the children in my family have weighed more than 17 lbs @ that age.

The twins most likely won't outgrow it by then either as they only weigh 9lbs total @ 5wks old--but they do eat quite abit and often.

My son is especially gargantuan and grew out of his Britax infant carrier at 6 months, both in weight and length. He is pretty freaking huge, but has finally slowed progress at 18 months fitting SNUGLY in a 2T. I should up him to a 3T but I just don't want to dish out the $ yet! Belly shirts are AWESOME on toddlers!
As for lugging him around, I parked close to the cart holder things in the store parking lots, AND I have a stroller that was the companion to that car seat so I could just pop the carrier in the stroller and roll him, because those things are SO heavy! I also made my husband put him in the car whenever I could (but he works from home so I am especially lucky in that respect).

Both my kids were 20# at 4 months old so they had to move into the larger car seat at that age. And that was on breast milk alone. Their weight gain slowed down quickly after that. My son was 20# 6 oz at 6 months.

It did not matter with either baby that they needed a new car seat since they both screamed the entire time they were in any car seat. I used a sling when I got them out of the car. Yes, it felt like I was pregnant still but it's easier than listening to them cry.

Yup, just big kids. I have a Snugride too, and my daughter outgrew it at 4 months- lengthwise, not from weight. I think she still technically met the height requirement but her head was almost at the top of the seat, which made me nervous. My son is two weeks older than Dylan and weighs 16 pounds- he was 10.5 lbs at birth. I don't think we have more than another few months in the snugride with him. My husband and I are both very tall, and the kids are too.