Convertible Car Seat shopping

techg0ddess · June 2013

AHHHH! Seriously why are there so many options? I have the list of seats that fit mine and hubby's car but that's not helping really. Baby is tall and of course that means I need one that's going to fit in my car and still be able to be used for a while rear facing for my tall guy. He was 29" and 19.2lbs at his 6 month appointment a month ago and I'm pretty sure he's still growing an inch a month.

At this point it looks like we might have to get one for each car. The Graco Comfortsport was on both lists but wasn't recommended since I guess most average size kids grow out of it by 2. Someone suggested the Graco My Ride 65 and this is on my cars list but not hubby's list. I'm sure it would fit in hubby's Xterra and the only real issue is getting one that fits in my Cube properly.

Any suggestions? I'm feeling overwhelmed here .

techg0ddess · June 2013

MandJS:
All of this. Also. I believe BRU will let you take them out to your car to see if they fit before purchasing.

Well how awesome would that be . I'll have to check this out and see if mine will let me .

And Kiraliz, I think I'm beginning to see that we'll need two but it would have to be purchased a month apart. Guess I need to get with the program while he still fits the infant seat and buy them. I was hoping to find that might be easy to just switch but I'm guessing most of them aren't made for that.

shaunnna · June 2013

techg0ddess:
MandJS:
All of this. Also. I believe BRU will let you take them out to your car to see if they fit before purchasing. 
 Well how awesome would that be . I'll have to check this out and see if mine will let me .  
And Kiraliz, I think I'm beginning to see that we'll need two but it would have to be purchased a month apart. Guess I need to get with the program while he still fits the infant seat and buy them. I was hoping to find that might be easy to just switch but I'm guessing most of them aren't made for that. 

You're in Tucson, right? Buy Buy Baby on the NW side near the Foothills Mall lets you take sears out to try them in your car. I almost didn't get our Diono Radian because I didn't think it would fit in our car. We tried it, and it fit!

jennygirlmt · June 2013

kiraliz2:
My only advice is get two if you can afford it. I would hate to have to move the convertible seat around all the time, although it can be done.

I was super overwhelmed too. But DH moves the seat if he ever needs to take dd1. It takes him two minutes. We ended up giving his to mil since she takes dd one day a week. He rarely drives her or its a situation where he just takes my car. I'd consider how much he would need a seat and then decide whether he needs his own.

techg0ddess · June 2013

jennygirlmt:
I was super overwhelmed too. But DH moves the seat if he ever needs to take dd1. It takes him two minutes. We ended up giving his to mil since she takes dd one day a week. He rarely drives her or its a situation where he just takes my car. I'd consider how much he would need a seat and then decide whether he needs his own.

Unfortunately we share the pick up/drop off duties, so he kind of needs his own. I drop him off at babysitters, he picks him up. Most of the time if we go running around on the weekends it's in his car since it fits everyone better (we have SD12 on the weekends). The only way to get away with one is just to have me switch out cars on my way to work. It could be done since technically I drive by his work on my way back from the sitters but seems more inconvenient.

techg0ddess · June 2013

shaunnna:
You're in Tucson, right? Buy Buy Baby on the NW side near the Foothills Mall lets you take sears out to try them in your car. I almost didn't get our Diono Radian because I didn't think it would fit in our car. We tried it, and it fit!

Yep! Thanks for that . We'll probably start figuring it out after this weekend. I wouldn't have even thought about them .

Alexames · June 2013

Have you thought about the Britax Roundabout? It's in my hubby's Prius and he does the drop offs during the week. LO seems to love it just as much as the Nextfit that's in our truck.

lyndsihutson · June 2013

Where did you find out what will fit? I've been looking and they all seem so big for my maxima!

techg0ddess · June 2013

lyndsihutson:
Where did you find out what will fit? I've been looking and they all seem so big for my maxima!

I did a Google search and found this site for Nissan

https://www.nissanusa.com/snugkids/manuals

techg0ddess · June 2013

Alexames:
Have you thought about the Britax Roundabout? It's in my hubby's Prius and he does the drop offs during the week. LO seems to love it just as much as the Nextfit that's in our truck.

I haven't checked it out yet. It is on my list, well the roundabout 50 (can only find the 55 on amazon to check out) so not sure what the difference in the numbers are other than maybe weight that it goes up to.

techg0ddess · June 2013

Chickie79:
I just got the Chicco Nextfit since I had a 15% coupon from Target. I haven't installed it yet, but can't wait to get rid of the carrier.
And apparently the cashier didn't realize the coupon scanned so she gave me an additional 15% off...ended up getting it for just over $200!

Yay for you!! It's nice when that happens.

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