When (at what age) do babies typically outgrow infant car seats?
My husband and I will be using a Safety 1st travel system (Lexi style, too cute!) anyways, on the car seat itself it says the maximum weight is 22 pounds. How old are most babies when they're at 22 pounds?
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It’s really hard to say. My daughter is 16 lbs at 7 1/2 months, while her cousin is 21 at 5 1/2… He’s out of the infant car seat already, and she has ways to go. You will have to get her a new one once she reaches weight limit OR height limit (check the manual, I think it’s an inch from the top of the seat). Also, when you switch, get a convertible seat, so you can keep your babies rear facing longer. Aim for 2 years rear facing and go from there!
its about 6 months but all depending on your baby as they are all different weights as they get bigger x
about 12-15 months, every baby is different but that is the average I would guess.
Approx 6+ months, on average. It’s 22-25 lbs, it’ll tell you on the carseat. It all depends on your child. Your baby may be longer sooner or chunky-monkey earlier. You never know
That can vary a lot, from baby to baby. Typically about a year and they are a bit too big and to heavy to be carried in the car seats that snap in and out of the car. Of course you might have a little one that is much smaller and lighter, thus lasting longer in the seat. Also by a year and meeting proper weight requirements , you can "flip them" to forward facing seats and they are big enough by then to sit in buggies in stores and the like.
Happy days with your baby!
Between 6 and 20 months… depending on the baby. They all grow at differently.
For 22 pounds…
~18 months for boys
~22 months for girls
my son is 7 months and is too big for his infant seat and he has been for the last two months…it just depends on the child.
average babies around 22 pounds are about 6 months old. but i had a big baby boy weighed almost 10 pounds when he was born. hes 4 months now and weighs 19-20 pounds. hes still in the normal range but at the highest percentile. so i guess your answer would be 4-6 months.
At my son’s 12 month check up he weighed 22 lbs. It just varies though. Usually when the baby is ready to go rear facing (12 months and 20 lbs) it is time to replace the infant car seat, because most arn’t designed to go front facing anyway.
the rule of thumb is you cannot have your child sit in a forward facing car seat until he/she is 22 lbs and 1 years old.
Meaning, she if she is 1 years old and 19 lbs it doesn’t matter, she has to sit rear faced until she reaches 22 lbs. and vice versa, if she’s 22 lbs and 10 months old, still has to be rear facing. She has to be both to graduate to a forward seat.
My son was in a forward facing seat when he turned 1, he was 22 lbs at 11 months. lol. So we didn’t have to wait. If you find yourself like us where he turned 22 lbs at 10 months even though we knew our infant seat’s maximum weight was 22 lbs, we went out and bought a 3 in 1 car seat, 3 in 1′s are rear facing, forward facing, and eventually a booster seat.
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You can install them so that they are rear facing until he/she turns 1.
about 9-12 months… kind of a waste of money… just buy one convertible seat that they can use from birth until 60lbs or more. Look for one with a high rear-facing weight limit to keep baby facing backwards as long as possible – it’s safer that way.
Don’t put them forward facing just because you can at a year old AND 20 lbs, the minimum requirements are changing (they already have in Europe) to 2 years old before you can put them forward facing.
My son was 22 lbs at 5-6 months, some babies are smaller though and can fit in the infant size seat until 1 year. Generally, by the time they are 15 lbs though you won’t want to carry that portable car seat around with the baby in it (unless you are hercules lol). By then you might just bring the baby in and out of the car instead of bringing her in the seat. Just keep an eye on height, usually they outgrow by height sooner than weight.
As others have said, it really depends. My daughter was almost 2 1/2 years when he hit 22 pounds. Her cousin was 4 months. (Both were and are healthy kids, but very different sizes.)
My son wasnt 22 lbs till well after he turned 1 year old back in may of 2009. We stopped using his infant seat when he was like 18lbs and it about broke our backs to carry his infant seat lol. So he has been using a convertible car seat since feb of 2009 I believe. He loved it. Could see more that way.
It varies a lot. My 9-month old is 18 pounds. Her cousin was that weight at a much younger age. Remember that babies shouldn’t be forward facing until they are at least 20 pounds AND 1-year old.
Depends.. My daughter is 9 months and is 22 pounds but she is really long so I switched to a convertible when she was 7 months. She was probably 20 pounds when I changed them.
I would say around 6 or 7 months. My son is 6 months and I can tell it will be real soon that we will have to buy a convertible car seat.
Anytime from around 6 months. My little girl has just reached 22 pounds and she’s 21 months old. She’s on 9 th centile for weight. A baby on the 95th centile will get to that weight when 5-6 months though. Just keep weighing your child and switch to a rear-facer with a higher weight limit when you need to. My little girl was in her infant carrier till 14 months when she got too tall, then we bought a convertible that goes up to 29 lbs rear-facing.