BR: Convertible Car Seat

YouandMe912 · July 2011

I am researching convertible car seats and wanted niner mommas opinions. I know they all have to have a set of standards and anything I get is fine but I just want to know which one you have, do you have just 1? How much was it? Where did you get it? TIA!

MBMcC421 · July 2011

Graco's MyRide65. We haven't installed it yet, but at the moment we do have just one. We'll probably buy another once Sam makes the transition, and if we're finding we need it.

YouandMe912 · July 2011

Those are reasonably priced right? As in like $150?

MBMcC421 · July 2011

You'd have to check BRU... we got ours off of our registry, and it was well over a year ago.

kmo630 · July 2011

We have My Ride 65 also. We like it. It is pretty large, but I call it his king throne because of that and it has cup holders. It ranges from $120- like $160, depending on the pattern. I have seen them at BRU, Target and Walmart. They sell a lot of different designs but not all at the same store so you need to look around. The one I like was only sold at Target and the one Floyd liked for his car was only sold at Walmart. We spent like $130-$140ish on each one.

K-hart · July 2011

Britax marathon 70. Got them for our shower. I believe 1 came from BRU and the other from Amazon. We got one for each car. I guess they are more on the pricey side but BRU and Amazon both run specials sometimes. I only read reviews and have no real life experience. Sorry!!!

amelianguy · July 2011

We have two: the Cosco Seneca, and a Century one that I don't know the model of. The Century one was a gift, and the Cosco one we chose literally because it was the least expensive one at Walmart (39 dollars). Both work fine, were easy to install, are easy to adjust, and she seems comfy in either one.

kmo630 · July 2011

K-hart, just know I am not talking bad about your car seats at all, I just wanted to share this, so she can keep her options open. My bosses have both a really expensive Britax and a less expensive Safety First (I think) one, each in one car. When I was looking at carseats, they told me not to bother spending all that money on the Britax one, because they actually liked the less expensive one better (I can't remember for what exact reasons and it was not like they disliked the other one). They have a lot of money and she has pretty expensive taste, so I was actually really surprised by this.

Once again, I am not saying there is anything bad about the carseat, I just wanted to share what she told me.

K-hart · July 2011

kmo630:
K-hart, just know I am not talking bad about your car seats at all, I just wanted to share this, so she can keep her options open. My bosses have both a really expensive Britax and a less expensive Safety First (I think) one, each in one car. When I was looking at carseats, they told me not to bother spending all that money on the Britax one, because they actually liked the less expensive one better (I can't remember for what exact reasons and it was not like they disliked the other one). They have a lot of money and she has pretty expensive taste, so I was actually really surprised by this.

Once again, I am not saying there is anything bad about the carseat, I just wanted to share what she told me.

Thanks! They were actually both shower gifts. One wasn't even on our registry and we registered for the britax and a safety first which was less expensive. We barely registered for anything because we got a ton of hand me downs, so people bought them together. It's nice at least not to worry about buying car seats in year. If we would have had to buy them ourselves, we probably wouldn't have went with the Britax brand. The $99 safety first is just as nice, IMO.

YouandMe912 · July 2011

Thanks for the info ladies. I was looking at the Britax because they seem to be the most recommended but they're so expensive. I didn't know if people thought it was worth it or not. I'm liking the Graco right now.

I know I'll need a higher weight/height one since he's so big and I don't want to have to buy a million. In NYS they can switch to a booster at 4 so when we have another who needs the convertible, I'd probably buy the 3 in 1 type booster.

At this point I'm debating getting one for Kevin's car. We hardly use the extra base we got for the infant seat.

kmo630 · July 2011

tgoff248:

Thanks for the info ladies. I was looking at the Britax because they seem to be the most recommended but they're so expensive. I didn't know if people thought it was worth it or not. I'm liking the Graco right now.

I know I'll need a higher weight/height one since he's so big and I don't want to have to buy a million. In NYS they can switch to a booster at 4 so when we have another who needs the convertible, I'd probably buy the 3 in 1 type booster.

At this point I'm debating getting one for Kevin's car. We hardly use the extra base we got for the infant seat.

Well, as you know, I also have a child who is built like a football player lol. For that reason we got a convertable carseat pretty early, at like 5 1/2 months. He has plenty of room and am fully confident that he will not reach the 40 lb rear facing limit for quite a while. Babies grow at rapid speeds in the beginning and slow down at around 6 months+. Weston was in the 90 percentile and now is in the 70th (he gained 12 lbs in the first 6 months of his life and in the last 6 months only 5). So with all that babble, I am trying to say that he will probably be fine in most 40 lb rear, 65+ lb front facing carseats. Sorry I talk a lot lol!

YouandMe912 · July 2011

kmo630:
tgoff248:

Thanks for the info ladies. I was looking at the Britax because they seem to be the most recommended but they're so expensive. I didn't know if people thought it was worth it or not. I'm liking the Graco right now.

I know I'll need a higher weight/height one since he's so big and I don't want to have to buy a million. In NYS they can switch to a booster at 4 so when we have another who needs the convertible, I'd probably buy the 3 in 1 type booster.

At this point I'm debating getting one for Kevin's car. We hardly use the extra base we got for the infant seat.

Well, as you know, I also have a child who is built like a football player lol. For that reason we got a convertable carseat pretty early, at like 5 1/2 months. He has plenty of room and am fully confident that he will not reach the 40 lb rear facing limit for quite a while. Babies grow at rapid speeds in the beginning and slow down at around 6 months+. Weston was in the 90 percentile and now is in the 70th (he gained 12 lbs in the first 6 months of his life and in the last 6 months only 5). So with all that babble, I am trying to say that he will probably be fine in most 40 lb rear, 65+ lb front facing carseats. Sorry I talk a lot lol!

That's why I'm researching more heavily now. Nate looks like he's 6 months old and my back feels like it's breaking every time I pick up his infant seat. I'm going to keep him in there probably until 6 months. I've been wearing him often in my Ergo and he loves his regular stroller so it's going to be tough to hold out for 3 more months lol.

kelklump · July 2011

I am glad you asked this. We have to purchase 2 one for us and one for the nanny and we wanted to start looking for deals in the next few months. Charlotte is also large 23.5-24 inches long at 2 mos... and 12.8 lbs. If she continues this we will be out of the baby seat before one.

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