Hi Everyone!
Fairly new mom here, LO has just turned 5 months and she is our first baby so this whole convertible car seat world is somewhat new to us
For our current seat we have a Britax B-Safe 35, but I can see we are quickly approaching the time where we will probably want to get a convertible seat...or I need to start lifting more weights to be able to make her seat seem lighter, ha ha
The husband and I picked up a Diono Rainier last week because we had heard so many good things about Diono in general (and I really liked their higher RF limits), more specifically the Radian, but I had read the Rainier was supposed to be the more updated seat.
After doing some more searching on the Diono though I see that it's not on the 2015 Recommended list here, and Consumer Reports gave the Radian RXT/GXT a 44 out of 100 which was quite a bit less than the the top contenders in their category.
After looking over the CR web site I'm seeing that the Chicco Nextfit or Britax Advocate get much better ratings, and I feel a little more comfortable with the Britax since we already have that brand and like it fairly well.
I'm curious what would others do? Return the Radian and get one of the other two? Or am I putting too much faith in the Consumer Report tests/reviews and the Radian is actually fine?
Would love to hear your thoughts, and experiences with Nextfit and Advocate if you have them!
Thank you in advance!
Fairly new mom here, LO has just turned 5 months and she is our first baby so this whole convertible car seat world is somewhat new to us
For our current seat we have a Britax B-Safe 35, but I can see we are quickly approaching the time where we will probably want to get a convertible seat...or I need to start lifting more weights to be able to make her seat seem lighter, ha ha
The husband and I picked up a Diono Rainier last week because we had heard so many good things about Diono in general (and I really liked their higher RF limits), more specifically the Radian, but I had read the Rainier was supposed to be the more updated seat.
After doing some more searching on the Diono though I see that it's not on the 2015 Recommended list here, and Consumer Reports gave the Radian RXT/GXT a 44 out of 100 which was quite a bit less than the the top contenders in their category.
After looking over the CR web site I'm seeing that the Chicco Nextfit or Britax Advocate get much better ratings, and I feel a little more comfortable with the Britax since we already have that brand and like it fairly well.
I'm curious what would others do? Return the Radian and get one of the other two? Or am I putting too much faith in the Consumer Report tests/reviews and the Radian is actually fine?
Would love to hear your thoughts, and experiences with Nextfit and Advocate if you have them!
Thank you in advance!