I hate our carseat! What is the best newborn to 4 convertible car seats?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I have 2 Turn-A-Tots and i LOVE them, they are a little bulky compared to some i think but they are BRILLIANT.
In the newborn position it actually TURNS to face the door for ease of taking bubs in and out of the car.
The newborn insert is great and very very comfy for them.

DD1 uses my SIL's old one and it looks so so comfy, she's always falling asleep and never had a complaint from her.

I suggest going to a baby store, trying bubs in them, having a fiddle and ask them to pop it in the car so you see how it fits etc.

[surprised]

We have just bought one from 'the unmentionable' company , but don't yet have a baby to put in it, so can't really comment.

However I just wanted to second people's comments about getting it professionally fitted. We thought we had it kind of right, but it still moved around too much for our liking... took it to a pro for $35 and the fit he achieved is vastly different to how we had it. Turns out we needed a special part because of our car. Initially I didn't want to spend the money, but soooo glad I did. Good luck with your hunting!

[2CheekyMonkeys]

i think if you are with RACQ (or your state equivalent) you get the fitting for free. we have something called kid safe house here in QLD and they did it for $15. i think the ambos do it too but you have to book in advance with them.

[Olive]

as surpised said the belt needs a special clip called a gater clip! keeps the seat very secure!!

[Pandora]

I was going to recommend S'N'S too.

For what its worth I have had multiple dealings with Britax and in my experience their after sales customer service is outstanding. They fixed an issue with one of my child seats and in QA'ing it they also found and fixed two other issues that I wouldnt have know about. Now this seat I bought for DS1, so its 5 years old and Id expect straps to wear etc - there were no major faults witht he seat just wear and tear, but this was still covered by warranty.

Both my babies were over 10lb and fitten in there with the insert with no probs at all.

[sirenz]

I know you don't want to hear about safe n sound BUT I have to praise our car seat. we got the Safe-n-Sound Meridian AHR, it is the safest car seat on the market (when we purchased it), although quite expensive, we found we really didn't mind paying the price for the best seat out there. DS seems quite comfy in it and it has a lot of safety features other seats don't, such as, Active Head Restraint (AHR) with an EPS layer to absorb energy in a crash to reduce the potential injury etc.

You can losen the side strap so you don't have to lift baby up high to get them in too.

I would highly recommend that you reconsider safe n sound as they are in my opinion the best ones out there.