We have the Safe N Sound Compaq, must say as we are having our 2nd baby soon we have gone and bought another carseat now for Julia (got the S&S Maxirider), she is 12 kgs and quite long and has already outgrown the S&S Compaq. If I had to do it from scratch again with first child, I would get hiring or borrowing a capsule and then get the SNS Meridian as its taller and will last longer than the SNS Compaq in the upright position.