My oldest was a little after she turned two. I was very pregnant and fell trying to get her in, so around she went.
My youngest is 2y 4m and still rear facing. She isn't even 22 lbs which is the FF min for her seat anyway ha.
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DD is 27 months and still RF. I can't see us turning her for quite awhile. She's tall but finds room for her legs. I honestly think it would be harder to buckle her in if she were FF.
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2.5.
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Right at 2 for DS1. We'll most likely do the same for DS2.
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2.5 for first and probably same for second this summer. It's so hot here and my car has zero air flow for rf plus they're both tall so well over minimums.
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B was 26 months - his baby brother was about to be born and I couldn't fit a rear facing seat behind the driver's seat and fit my knees under the steering wheel.
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A little after four for R. My others are still rf. S just turned three. He is slender so he will be rf for quite awhile. I load him and D through the trunk
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My 3 year old is still RF. She hasn't complained, still fits that way comfortably (she's 36 inches and 29 lbs), and best of all, she sleeps on trips longer than 20 minutes or so! I never intended to extended RF, but figure if it isn't broken, why try to fix it?! The only problem is that it puts her in prime position to stick her feet in the face of her 5 year old sister, who rides FF in the middle seat, when she wants to be annoying.
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@cheesetomywhine: Curious what kind of car you drive that you can load through the trunk? I'm considering moving one of my three kids to the third row of my Acura MDX and think it'd HAVE to be the RF 3-year-old...baby is too little to be way back there, and there's nowhere for my FF 5 year old to put her feet in the third row...but I thought trunk-loading sounded daunting!
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She's still rear facing at 2 years 2 months. No plans to turn her. I'd love to keep her that way til she's 4.
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3.5 for No. 1 ... closer to 3 for No. 2 because he wanted to be like his big brother.
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We turned DS1 two months shy of 3. DS2 is still RF at 21 months and I have no plans to turn him until at least 2.5.
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26 months for LO1, when DH installed the second car seat for LO2. I probably would have done longer, but LO2 came 2 weeks early and when my husband brought the car around to pick me up at the hospital, he had turned LO1's seat around.
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@sorrycharlie: I turned LO1 a little before she turned two because I couldn't load her with my pregnant belly without hurting my back.
DS is 2 next month and by law he can't be turned for another month. DH wants to turn him then.
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Mine are both still comfortably RF at 4.5 and 2.5. I'm due with LO3 in a few weeks and am planning to turn DD1 and move her to the third row.
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26 mo and 27 lb. No plans to turn her soon. I think she's about 3ft.
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About 2.5, I think. He was a chronic car seat hater and it was getting difficult.. plus the car seat was big in our small car and it was hard to get him in and out. Once we turned him around, his attitude about the car improved immensely.
I'm hoping I can keep DS2 RF longer.
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@rattles: 4.5! Dang, that's impressive!
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@Mrs. Pen: it's a lucky combination of factors - she's in a Foonf in a minivan, so it's a beast of a seat and I don't have to lift her in. My goal was 4, but since she hasn't complained I've left her. I think DD2 will want to be like big sis once she realizes there's an alternative. DD1 was one of those baby's that HATED the infant seat, but we haven't had any real issues since then, thankfully!
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4.5 years and still rear facing. I think by his 5th birthday if he hasn't outgrown the limits, I'll turn him then.
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@rattles: i also have a foonf in a minivan!
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@PinkElephant: I have a minivan. I have DD in the middle row and the two boys in the third. My three year old sometimes climbs through the middle to get to the back but he is easy to lift into his seat. I am 5'7 if that makes a difference. It may be more challenging for someone petite. I kneel on the rim of the trunk to buckle them.
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A little after 3.5 with my first. I was planning on going until at least 4, but we had to get a rental car that didn't have room for rear facing, and after being forward facing in the rental I wasn't willing to face the battle when we got our car back.
#2 is still rear facing at 18 months, and will be until sometime after 3.
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We turned my son FF at 3y8m. And honestly I still feel sort of guilty about it and sometimes I feel like I should turn him RF again.
My daughter is almost 2 and still RF. She's only about 19lbs (I think) so at this rate she'll be RF until shes 12
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She's 25 months and we have no plans to turn her around anytime. She's short so I could see keeping her rear facing until 4.
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So I actually have 4 kids RF.
My 4 year old RF in my and DH car but FF when traveling with grandma. He is a tall kid (98%) so we purposely got him the seat with the highest RF hight limit when he had outgrown his first convertible. No plans to turn him around any time soon. -
My big girl was turned at 21 months and my wee guy has just the rf'ing limits on the same seat at 2y1m.
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We turned our DD FF at 3y3m old right before DS was born. We couldn't fit two RF car seats so we didn't have much of a choice. I'd probably still have her RF otherwise. She turned 4 in March and is 28 pounds so would have no problems fitting RF.
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We turned him at 33 months
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We haven't yet! Xander is 4 and Logan is 2.
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She's over 2 and still RF with no plans to change. It nice to see the majority of posters in this thread kept or keep their kids RF for longer than the "general public perception" of the acceptable time to flip (a lot of people I know flip less than 2 or even closer to 1, which boggles my mind). All of them explain that they do it for convienence or because they think their kid is "too big".
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We turned DS last month at 2 years 8 months because we couldn't fit him rear facing behind DH and we had to put the infant seat behind the passenger.
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We turned my older one the day we brought the baby home from the hospital, so just about 2.5. Couldn't comfortably fit the rf seat behind the drivers seat when DH was driving. The babybis 17 months now and I don't know when we will turn it, hopefully at last as long.
Extended RF seems so common on her but IRL I only know a very small handful of people who went past 2- most turned a little before.
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30 months.
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3.5. We couldn't fit two RF seats and she's very tall so was about to outgrow anyway.
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We turned DD1 at 2.5. We were going for a couple hour drive to the beach first thing in the morning and because I loathe long car rides so much myself, I felt guilty that she couldn't talk to us or see anything (though I know that's not true) on the way there so we flipped her.
DD2 JUST turned 2 and is still RF. I'm hoping to keep her that way until at least 2.5 or 3. I'm surprised neither girl has asked why she is RF yet.
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@sorrycharlie: pretty much the same as you! Older DS turned around right around 2. Younger DS is 2y2m and a peanut at 21 pounds so he'll be rearfacing for a while.
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We turned DD1 around a month or so after she turned 2. I didn't want to; my plan was to keep her rear facing for as long as possible, but it's the same reasoning some others gave above me; we couldn't fit two rear facing so one has to turn around.
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D was 2.5. We'll probably turn A around the same time (she's 15m now).
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2 years for DD1...probably the same for DD2 since she always wants to be just like her sis
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