https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 17 Apr 2026 02:47:51 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay/page/2#post-2825585 Thu, 31 May 2018 13:03:42 +0000 pinkcupcake 2825585@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@GoGoSnoGirl: same! Our Ped totally recommended having her sleep in her infant seat b/c she suffered from reflux. Never heard you weren't supposed to let them do that.</p> <p>We slept in rock n plays, swings, car seat - basically wherever they would sleep! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay/page/2#post-2825495 Thu, 31 May 2018 08:05:22 +0000 hellobeeboston 2825495@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh man both of my kids slept a TON in their carseats. with my second baby i recall putting a lot of miles on my car because they napped the best while I was driving around.... i would often transfer their bucket seat from the car into the house as well.... Both of my boys take great naps in the car to this day, they're 5.5 and 2.5. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825441 Wed, 30 May 2018 19:04:54 +0000 GoGoSnoGirl 2825441@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I must be a terrible parent with a terrible pediatrician :silly: : LO (who is 3yo &amp; absolutely perfect) slept in the car in her bucket seat, out of the car in the bucket seat for 1-2wks when her reflux seemed bad, in a stroller in her bucket seat, in a RNP... all with the blessing or even at the recommendation of our ped. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825393 Wed, 30 May 2018 14:15:31 +0000 winniebee 2825393@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>All of my kids spent a lot of time napping in that infant bucket seat.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825370 Wed, 30 May 2018 12:25:19 +0000 2littlepumpkins 2825370@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CatchAFallingStar: I wouldn't make it a regular thing but right next to you very now and the ? So not a big deal! </p> <p>@Kemma: the flat spot was always a concern with us too. My first and second had flat heads and second got a helmet. My third I can tell has a bit of a flat spot on one side of her head that she was born with and hasn't quite filled out. But my second spent the most time strapped to a car seat and wasn't really any worse than my first so idk? I still try to avoid it though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825367 Wed, 30 May 2018 12:15:54 +0000 Truth Bombs 2825367@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: Preach. My kids finished naps in their car seats all the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825365 Wed, 30 May 2018 12:10:52 +0000 alphagam84 2825365@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Napping in the car seat while in the car is perfectly fine and not frowned upon. The angle of the seat in the car makes it safe. While I wouldn't put my daughter in the car seat outside of the car to get her to nap, I'd totally let her keep napping if I carried the car seat from the car to the house/location we were going. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825353 Wed, 30 May 2018 11:39:24 +0000 snowjewelz 2825353@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn't put baby in the car seat TO nap, but if baby was already sleeping I'd let him/her stay asleep but def only if I'm keep an eye on them. Then again, I wouldn't know because none of my girls were car nappers as babies! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825336 Wed, 30 May 2018 10:12:08 +0000 dolphin 2825336@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We do it all the time! DS sleeps best in his car seat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825334 Wed, 30 May 2018 10:09:12 +0000 nana87 2825334@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've always been team "don't wake the baby." If baby was asleep in the infant car seat, I definitely transferred it to the stroller base and let her keep sleeping. I didn't put her in the carseat in order to get her to nap though! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825329 Wed, 30 May 2018 10:04:07 +0000 psw27 2825329@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I didn't encourage it - like I wasn't like let me take a ride around the block so he falls asleep - but if it happened I totally let them be and carried the bucket seat inside the house/wherever we were going. Neither of my kids transfer from car seat to crib. I worried more when they were really, really little and had no neck control but not so much now that they are bigger. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825293 Wed, 30 May 2018 00:59:16 +0000 Littlebit7 2825293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: agreed. It’s a “there was once thing I heard on the internet somewhere and I think a baby died in a car seat from the strap, or maybe it was from his neck being flexed or something”. It seems as though if your child is buckled correctly (like the straps aren’t loose and tangled around their necks) and the seat isn’t sitting at a totally weird angle causing head slump you are going to be totally fine 99.99% of the time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825292 Tue, 29 May 2018 23:12:26 +0000 Kemma 2825292@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think the other issue with napping in a carseat is the risk of baby developing a flat spot on their head and the fact that they’re stuck in one position for an extended period of time. As an example, say you drive 1-2 hours to the zoo then baby spends the day in the carseat because it’s clicked into the stroller and is then put back into the car to drive 1-2 hours home and you all of a sudden have a baby that’s spent most of the day in one position with limited opportunity to move and stretch etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825289 Tue, 29 May 2018 22:24:53 +0000 SweetiePie 2825289@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Rnp was just an example of something that people seem to be ok with even though it’s technically not safe sleeping. But I think you got what I meant anyway by mentioning the cosleeping :-)</p> <p>I’m always team “calculated risks”. That’s all! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825285 Tue, 29 May 2018 21:59:33 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2825285@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: raising my hand as to a no RNP &amp; infant car seat person. I did cosleep.</p> <p>@Becky: Before LO was sitting up in the grocery cart, I shopped with him in his stroller. I would stop off at the service desk and tell them I was going to load up the stroller and my reusable bags and then pay for everything. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825281 Tue, 29 May 2018 21:28:24 +0000 travellingbee 2825281@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaG: rock n play, swing... my reflux babies slept where I could get ‘em to sleep. Because even so we barely got sleep and that isn’t safe either. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825280 Tue, 29 May 2018 21:27:12 +0000 Becky 2825280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@petitenoisette: I like the “gleefully” part. I’m not sure how I ever could have avoided this. Isn’t this how you get grocery shopping witha newborn done?! I don’t know that it’s any amore “unsafe” than a RNP or swing (we did soooo many swing naps). I will fully admit to leaving the car windows down on a 55 degree day while she napped in there so I could clean up the yard for 15 minutes. The only thing I worried about was a bee getting in. I think it’s one of those things you need to weigh, too: a healthy baby is way more likely to die in a car accident than in an unsafe sleep environment (anything less than alone, in a crib, on her back, in a cool, non-smoking household: I really like the new How to Riase a Human series from NPR—they have some stuff that kind of touches on this). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825277 Tue, 29 May 2018 20:22:54 +0000 looch 2825277@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I read that sleeping on an incline could cause the airway to collapse, basically, the weight of the head on an unstable neck could restrict air to the lungs.</p> <p>No car seat sleeping, no swing naps, no rock and play for us. My son was also laying flat in a basinett while in his stroller until he was 7 months old that’s how vigilant I was. I recognize this was more about my fears than anything though, I wouldn’t belittle anyone for their choices. You do you and I will continue over here doing me with no comments. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825274 Tue, 29 May 2018 19:43:08 +0000 SweetiePie 2825274@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@MamaG: 😂 </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825273 Tue, 29 May 2018 19:38:14 +0000 MamaG 2825273@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@SweetiePie: also guilty on the RNP. My second kiddo was a spitter and really didn’t tolerate being flat. Parenting flaw #2. :silly: </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825272 Tue, 29 May 2018 19:30:57 +0000 petitenoisette 2825272@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I gleefully let my 3 month old sleep in her car seat inside for an hour and a half the other day. She has preferred to take almost all her naps on me lately so it was a real treat. I did check on her repeatedly but I wasn’t right there the whole time. I know it’s not 100% safe but I’m ok with it sparingly. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825270 Tue, 29 May 2018 19:25:55 +0000 SweetiePie 2825270@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@travellingbee: @Corduroy: @gotkimchi: @MamaG: Yeah I think this is another one of those things that maybe is not the ideal sleeping scenario but it’s also not a death sentence either. Like it’s pretty unlikely, but because the possibility is so devastating, people take a hard line (or say they do).<br /> Like, there are the same concerns with a rock n play but plenty of people do that because it’s convenient and seems more like a sleeping device, but I bet a lot of them say “I’d never!” about car seat sleeping. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825267 Tue, 29 May 2018 18:29:56 +0000 MamaG 2825267@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: agreed. I didn’t have babies that could be transferred. So if they were sleeping in their seat through the fitting in the house process they stayed there. I even did it at a party once when LO was 9 months and was overtired and needed to sleep. Into the seat with a blanket over as I gently rocked her. She’s now 6.75. It’s one of my many parenting flaws. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825266 Tue, 29 May 2018 18:29:18 +0000 gotkimchi 2825266@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Corduroy: word </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825264 Tue, 29 May 2018 18:19:40 +0000 Corduroy 2825264@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CatchAFallingStar: This seems like one of those parenting conundrums that’s ‘a thing’ online but not IRL. I wouldn’t wake my sleeping baby to take them out of the car. That’s the best feature of the infant seat. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825263 Tue, 29 May 2018 17:37:51 +0000 travellingbee 2825263@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Did it all the time. Didn’t leave either of them unattended but we brought them into restaurants where they’d sleep, into the house, etc. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825260 Tue, 29 May 2018 16:33:29 +0000 ElbieKay 2825260@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Um, yeah, I totally kept the sleeping baby in the car seat after getting out of the car, but it was almost always clicked into his stroller. Planning to do this with the twins too. However, I got bassinets for their stroller this time since they will be delivered at an earlier gestation than my son was. I would like them to lie flat when we are strolling around town without the car. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825258 Tue, 29 May 2018 16:28:00 +0000 bhbee 2825258@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wouldn’t feel bad about this! I mean yes let’s do it in the safest way that is reasonable but I wouldn’t wake a baby up to move them, mine didn’t sleep long in there anyway before waking. My second fell asleep in the car every single preschool drop off for his sister (2-3 days a week) and I’m sure my coming third will be in the car even more with the nature of hauling 3 around (I’m mostly solo when kids are awake so we all go together) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825251 Tue, 29 May 2018 15:24:39 +0000 gotkimchi 2825251@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@CatchAFallingStar: I don’t think you have to feel bad about this :silly: I’ve done way crazier for a nap </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/napping-in-car-seat-yay-or-nay#post-2825246 Tue, 29 May 2018 15:12:55 +0000 CatchAFallingStar 2825246@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I meant that babies aren’t supposed to nap much in the car because it’s not considered quality, restful sleep. I didn’t mean it was unsafe. But, I know the infant seats aren’t really safe for sleeping in when not locked into the base. So, I don’t do it often. But, today I did. She ended up getting about 30 minutes in it - in the house. But, she was literally RIGHT next to me and I watched her the whole time. </p>