Rear Facing Carseat....what Do You Do with Them If They Are Asleep?

I know it is hard to plan around naps all the time, but I think as long as the naps are CRUCIAL....do not plan on taking trips during naptime. When your little one is old enough to be turned forward, that is about the time when naptimes are starting to move to one long one in the middle of the day. When my little one was at that age and I had to lift her out, I carried her. I put her in the BabyBorn, and carried on. She would fall back asleep pretty quickly. I am not sure about the size of your little one, but this option helped me until mine was 20 months old. I have seen, but unfortunately do not remember the name, slings that can hold some 3-4 year olds.
Best of luck!

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Invest in a sling! Then just transfer them to it. The motion of your walking will soothe them back to sleep and you have both hands free to shop or whatever!

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I was always very fortunate and my daughter would stay asleep and I could put her in her stroller, leaned back...and I could shop. It was great. But, I know lots of kiddos wake up. You could give it a try.

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I used the Baby Bjorn for times like that. If I for some reason forgot it a stroller is an option for some errands, but not for going to Target or the grocery store. And if all else failed - we just delayed the nap unfortunately!

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I had the Graco Carseat with base and stroller...i just pulled the car seat out and it clips onto the stroller. if i didnt want to pull out the stroller i set the carseat either in the cart or it snaps onto a cart easily enough so you can look at your baby while walking your cart around.

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Your question is NOT a silly one. I understand completely. I agree with everyone, sleep is very important, but when I would go shopping or to run errands I would have to drive 35-40 miles one way. We would usually do everything in one day. I didn't have the convenience to just go home until nap time was over.
I use to carry a blanket and small pillow in my car and I would just put it down in the basket and lay my children right down to finish their nap while I shopped. My children learned to sleep anywhere they were. We didn't have the crisis of having to be in their own beds to sleep. My children are now 12, 9, and 4 and they survived sleeping in many shopping carts.
Good Luck

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It depends on how tired they are and how deeply they sleep. When my daughter was little we would take her out of the car seat and put her in the stroller. She usually didn't wake up. Now, although she's facing forward, we still encounter the same problem. But putting her in the stroller wakes her up. So now I take her out and carry her and I softly whisper to her to tell her what I'm doing. It sounds crazy, but I find that she doesn't open her eyes and look around and she goes back to sleep easier.

When we went traveling with her on a plane, we actually unhooked the carseat from the airplane seat and carried it with her in it. Not recommended as it's HEAVY. But we had to remove it from the plane anyway.

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EASY SOLUTION!!! I have a Graco stroller base. It was maybe $50 at Babies R Us but you could maybe find a cheaper one. All you do is take the car seat out with sleeping baby still buckled in and snap it into the stroller base. You don't have to bother the baby at all with taking him/her out and they are great, very small and light weight. It has storage in the bottom so you can do some shopping as needed but not big grocery shopping or anything. It was great while my baby was an infant, so much easier than a big heavy stroller.