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When I first started taking care of my niece (she was five weeks old then) my sister-in-law gave me a used car seat in order to help keep me mobile. I had to place it facing backward in the car, and getting the baby out of it was always a chore. There’s a button that you have to press in order to release the center clip that holds a couple of latches connected to the shoulder straps. It’s the first thing needed to be done in order to loosen a kid from the seat. The button never released the latches well and at times it seemed as though it wouldn’t release them at all. It was a problem that occured every time that we went for a ride somewhere. I always assumed that it was just old and defective because of the age of the seat, but I tolerated it because I didn’t really leave the house with the baby often. I recently had to turn the seat around because my niece has gotten too tall to sit in the seat facing to the rear. When I first reached to loosen the center clip button with the seat fa...