Wondering whether to get a car capsule or convertible car seat?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Plus this way, bubs just stays in the same seat until next the baby comes along, then we'll reverse the seat again so new bubs hopefully gets lots of use out of it and we'll upgrade DD to a seat that will hopefully last her as long as she needs

Thats exactly what we did, DD1 used the turn-a-tot til DD2 came along, we borrowed SIL's other turn-a-tot then when DD1 was big enough we put her straight into a 'big girl seat'.

Also i had a pram that had a hard shelled baby carrier that could fit onto it so i ended up using that attachment where need be.

[sarahrach]

I was debating this same question and got some great advice which was - if I planned to do several car trips a day and essentially would be in and out of the car then a capsule is a good thing otherwise, go for the reversible.

[ferrals5]

Seeing as kid's now have to be in car seats until 7 years old most car seats are either birth to 4 yrs or or 6mths to 4 years and they now make 6mths to 7 years or have the old booster seats but they now have to have harnesses so you would still have to buy 2 eventually so we hired a capsule and brought a 6mths to 7 years car seat that way we only had to pay $80 for hire and then the cost of one car seat insted of 2 car seats and that one car seat will last until Ella is 7.

[Possums]

thanks so much everyone, you've all been really helpful!

we are leaning towards going straight to the car seat.