I wasn't going to... but I can't help myself. Car seats.

[belfie]

Ok so I was determined to get through car seats on my own... no posting... I'm a big girl now, I can do it! But... as always... I have questions!

So had a look at all the safety stuff & older threads... and sounds like Safe'n'Sound is the way to go. LIked the look of the convertible seats (birth to 18kg) and ultimately came down to Meridien versus Compaq Deluxe. The Compaq actually seemed to do slightly better in the safety testing last year, so I'm leaning towards that. While the Meridien raves that it has more, I'm not sure how much difference it makes..? Happy to be enlightened tho!

But I'm still confused about something else. I've read that some people hire a baby capsule to start with... easier to travel with bubs & not disturb sleep. So that sounds logical... but... all the sites say don't buy a car seat that's second hand/history unknown/coulda been in a crash etc. So if you were to hire a capsule, how do you know it's been looked after? Which way would/did you go? straight to a convertible seat, or get/buy a capsule first?

Thanks!