Infant seat with the shortest slots

Stresch · Feb 15, 2007

We are talking about having a second child. Maybe. Someday.

Our daugher is small. Sanna was under 6 pounds when she came home from the hospital. She was (slightly?) below the lowest slots on the BabyTrend Latch-Loc we had at the time. We are currently borrowing a Graco SafeSeat1 and she is still using the lowest harness slots at 12 months.

It's unlikely that our hypothetical second child would have the same proportions (small with long legs/short torso), but assuming he/she did, what would be the best infant seat?

Patriot201 · Feb 15, 2007

I believe the Chicco Key Fit has very low bottom slots. I think its lowest slots are at 5" or so.
The Evenflo Embrace also has really low bottom slots, but it is not a great infant seat, IMO.

Starlight · Feb 15, 2007

The Compass has pretty low slots, plus an infintely adjustable harness.

thepeach80 · Feb 15, 2007

The Peg Perego is really low. Ilana was 6#13oz when I tried one and her shoulders were well over the bottom slots.

Patriot201 · Feb 15, 2007

thepeach80 said:
The Peg Perego is really low. Ilana was 6#13oz when I tried one and her shoulders were well over the bottom slots.

I *think* the lowest slots on the Primo Viaggio are 6.5". I may be mistaken, though. That's still pretty short!

thepeach80 · Feb 15, 2007

They seemed lower than that, hmmmm...I know where I'm going tomorrow. lol

Patriot201 · Feb 15, 2007

thepeach80 said:
They seemed lower than that, hmmmm...I know where I'm going tomorrow. lol

Please let us know! I might be incorrectly remembering the measurement.

I need to write this stuff down. I always try to remember by straight memory. Not good.

scatterbunny · Feb 15, 2007

http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=11889

They don't have the KeyFit or Compass listed yet.

But they have the Peg listed as 7.5 inches for the bottom slots.

The next lowest are 7 inches for the Graco SafeSeat 1 (how weird, a bigger Graco infant seat has lower bottom slots; the SnugRide's bottom slots are 8 inches) and Baby Trend LatchLoc.

Starlight · Feb 15, 2007

I measure about 5.5 inches on the Compass. It also goes from 4 lbs - 22 lbs.

cso1997 · Feb 16, 2007

scatterbunny said:
The next lowest are 7 inches for the Graco SafeSeat 1 (how weird, a bigger Graco infant seat has lower bottom slots; the SnugRide's bottom slots are 8 inches) and Baby Trend LatchLoc.

I have heard over and over that the Safeseat fits small babies much better than the Snugride. Great package that it fits small babies and big babies.

We have the Keyfit and with the insert and that it fits babies to 4 lbs, I personally think it is a real winner for small babies (mine was 5 lb 15 oz leaving the hospital).

thepeach80 · Feb 16, 2007

Ilana was 6#7oz when we left the hospital, much smaller and the SS wouldn't have worked, it just wouldn't get much tighter than it was. Her shoulders were also below the bottom slots. I tried her a week later (6#13oz) in the Peg and the slots were well below her shoulders so I'm thinking those measurements are off. I still want to go today, but I'm still hunting for my wallet...

lynsgirl · Feb 16, 2007

Patriot20171 said:
I believe the Chicco Key Fit has very low bottom slots. I think its lowest slots are at 5" or so.
The Evenflo Embrace also has really low bottom slots, but it is not a great infant seat, IMO.

It's so nice when someone else has already typed out exactly what you wanted to say! Thanks

, since this really is exactly what I was going to post lol.

nak

Lilsid · Feb 16, 2007

I just bought a Combi Tyro II infant seat and with the infant padding in place the bottom slots measure 5" and the top slots measure 6.5". With out the infant insert there are 3 slots and more growing room.

Patriot201 · Feb 16, 2007

lynsgirl said:
It's so nice when someone else has already typed out exacrly what you wanted to say! Thanks , since this really is exactly what I was going to post lol.

LOL! Good, I'm glad!!

scatterbunny · Feb 16, 2007

Lilsid, good to know the Tyro has low bottom slots, too.

I wonder if the other Combi infant seats also have low bottom slots?

thepeach80 · Feb 16, 2007

I did some very unscientific measuring today and the Ped seems about an inch lower than the SS.

Patriot201 · Feb 16, 2007

thepeach80 said:
I did some very unscientific measuring today and the Ped seems about an inch lower than the SS.

So my "from memory" measurement of 6.5" might not be too far off?

scatterbunny · Feb 16, 2007

So about 6 inches then, instead of 7.5 like carseatdata.org says. Hmmm. Wonder if the new version of the Peg has different slot heights?

Patriot201 · Feb 19, 2007

Here are some photos of slot measurements.

I did not press down on the padding, however, so the measurements might be a little bit "off."

http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=12065

joolsplus3 · Feb 19, 2007

I have some pics of my baby here... http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y255/joolstag/ the Combis are pretty low... I do far, far prefer the Key Fit or Safeseat 1 as far as seats go, though, and would not hesitate to use them even if the slot was above a newborns shoulders, because they baby isn't going to ramp out of the seat if the seat has waist straps that are snug and there's lots of seat above baby's head to keep him/her contained in a crash.

We just moved Leah's Safeseat straps to the top, she's just turned a year (boo hoo!)

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