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need car seat recommendations
chloe needs to graduate from her infant seat and i just can't pull the trigger and pick out a new one for her. any suggestions for a reasonably priced but safe toddler seat? preferably with high weight limit so i don't have to get a new one in a year or two. thanks!!
Re: need car seat recommendations
Became a Mrs. on 4/29/06 and a Mommy on 12/5/08
we have the radian 65. i wouldn't go too crazy with the weight limit. grace is 42 lbs right now and there is no way i would keep her in a convertible car seat.
When I bought them for Sofia and Ava I got them on a great sale through Amazon. They were cheaper than the 65's when I got them. I think they were retiring the fabrics. Gia is in a Britax Boulevard that they all happened to use at one point and when I turn her around she will go in a Radian. If I find a deal on the 80's that's better than the 65's i will just get it or vice versa.
Graco myride 65 is a great seat, eveflo triumph advance as well. Both have decent rear facing and forward facing height limits and nice price tags. I don't worry about weight limits because most kids outgrow them for height long before hitting the weight limits. The sunshine kids radian has one of the higher harness heights on the market and Julia outgrew it for height at 4 years and just about 40 lbs (she could have stayed in it until 80 lbs). She outgrew her marathon for height before 3 years and at maybe 33 lbs.
The other option is if Trevor is currently forward facing in a convertible you could buy either a britax frontier, graco nautilus or evenflo maestro for him and use the convertible he has RF for her. All three of those are forward facing harness seats that later become boosters so he'll be set for a while.
yeah, i keep telling my husband that but he just wants the best bang for the buck i guess. not that he's not worried about her safety but it's more of a "well we turned trevor at 1..."
I totally understand! It's frustrating when these recs change, and it took a bit to convince my husband as well. Now he's totally gung ho (having looked into the physics behind it... such a nerdy scientist) and will tell anyone why. If cost is a thought, get a cosco scenera 40RF for somewhere in the neighborhood of $40-50 then an evenflo maestro for $75 later. The cosco should get her to 3-4 (unless she's crazy tall/long torsoed like my older daughter) and has a good RF weight/height limit. Then the maestro will safely get her harnessed through high back booster. The two combined are about the same price as a graco nautilus, which is probably the seat your son is in. And all seats are equally safe. They all pass the same pass/fail test in order to be sold. Anything that didn't pass is not for sale. The top recommended seats for carseat experts center around high height/weight limits and what makes a good booster fit, not around whether it's a safe seat.