NorthCaliMom
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Hi! I have been stressing about a convertible car seat for a week now and would love your help. My 12 mo. old dd has outgrown her Britax BSafe and it caught me off guard! She is 23lbs. 31", ~85%. We have a Suburban and the convertible car seat wouldn't be moved much. I have already ordered 3 (!) seats (pria, nextfit, pavilion) but I don't think any of them are it. We live about 5 hours from a baby superstore. After extensive research my head is just spinning. These are my priorities:
1. Safety - Some seats are safer than others, granted they all meet the minimum standards, but this is our baby and the safer the better!
2. RF with good legroom well past 2yrs - (I realize that lack of legroom isn't a safety issue) The Peg Perego might be good for this reason bc it looks like an easier seat to sit cross cross in, kind of flatter rather than bucket shaped?
3. The ability to clean it all out if it gets puked on - I was feeling pretty good about the nextfit until I read a review from a mom who wasn't able to really clean it out after her kid got sick in it, and it looks like the straps aren't replaceable to boot. Yuck.
4. Easy to install - well at least not an arduous ordeal. I'm petite and I want to be able to install this by myself, with no help from hubby. Lockoffs are a bonus.
5. Budget - If I'm going to spend boku bucks on a seat with a hefty price tag - like the foonf - then I can only really justify it if I never need to buy another seat or booster. The seat won't be used for multiple kids. This is dd#3 (The older girls are 9 & 6. The 6y/o is in a britax highback booster.)
Of the seats I've bought I'm concerned that the pria would be on the chintzy side and not as safe as I would like, but that's just hypothesis on my part. Also, the head wings look claustrophobically ginormous, and the installation might be a bear. Cleaning out the nextfit after a GI issue concerns me, it looks like the back is enclosed, there's no way to really get it clean; and the shoulder pads being so close together seems potentially uncomfortable and the fabric tearing out long hair doesn't sound good either. Lastly, it's pretty high sided and it looks like I'd have to really work to get the baby in there. The britax would be fine except for the legroom. With all three the sides are pretty restrictive for sitting cross cross.
So I've been considering the peg, radian, or possibly the foonf. But I'm open to any and all suggestions! With the radian I was reading earlier today that kids grow out of it faster than some other options -but I haven't checked that and it doesn't seem right to me - also, I was concerned that maybe it was too open??
Sorry for any typos - I'm writing from my phone. Thank you tremendously for your help!!
1. Safety - Some seats are safer than others, granted they all meet the minimum standards, but this is our baby and the safer the better!
2. RF with good legroom well past 2yrs - (I realize that lack of legroom isn't a safety issue) The Peg Perego might be good for this reason bc it looks like an easier seat to sit cross cross in, kind of flatter rather than bucket shaped?
3. The ability to clean it all out if it gets puked on - I was feeling pretty good about the nextfit until I read a review from a mom who wasn't able to really clean it out after her kid got sick in it, and it looks like the straps aren't replaceable to boot. Yuck.
4. Easy to install - well at least not an arduous ordeal. I'm petite and I want to be able to install this by myself, with no help from hubby. Lockoffs are a bonus.
5. Budget - If I'm going to spend boku bucks on a seat with a hefty price tag - like the foonf - then I can only really justify it if I never need to buy another seat or booster. The seat won't be used for multiple kids. This is dd#3 (The older girls are 9 & 6. The 6y/o is in a britax highback booster.)
Of the seats I've bought I'm concerned that the pria would be on the chintzy side and not as safe as I would like, but that's just hypothesis on my part. Also, the head wings look claustrophobically ginormous, and the installation might be a bear. Cleaning out the nextfit after a GI issue concerns me, it looks like the back is enclosed, there's no way to really get it clean; and the shoulder pads being so close together seems potentially uncomfortable and the fabric tearing out long hair doesn't sound good either. Lastly, it's pretty high sided and it looks like I'd have to really work to get the baby in there. The britax would be fine except for the legroom. With all three the sides are pretty restrictive for sitting cross cross.
So I've been considering the peg, radian, or possibly the foonf. But I'm open to any and all suggestions! With the radian I was reading earlier today that kids grow out of it faster than some other options -but I haven't checked that and it doesn't seem right to me - also, I was concerned that maybe it was too open??
Sorry for any typos - I'm writing from my phone. Thank you tremendously for your help!!