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Where can I find car seat/stroller travel systems for girls that are NOT pink and under $200?
I live in northern Indiana. I can order online (for stores that offer online purchases)
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Things to consider. Why? I mean, except for transporting your baby in the car, a car seat should not be used for things like riding in the stroller, or on shopping carts, or things like that. It comes from the studies done in the last year or so that shows that a baby left to sleep or sit in an inclined position for too long can get into an oxygen lowered state. Ie, it's not good for them to be in an inclined position like a car seat for longer than 2 hours full in a day, until they're older than about 6 months old.
Now, since recalls done on strollers are far less than recalls done on car seats, you can get the stroller from someone selling second-hand (just doublecheck recall lists) and get a better car seat. The Chicco brand stroller, for instance, lays flat, making it usable from newborn on up. :) On Ebay, I can see a few for under $100 (make sure they say fully reclining.) I'm sure you could find some at Craigslist as well. :) Otherwise, you could consider using a baby chest carrier for the first few months until your baby is old enough (3-6 months) to sit at a slight incline, then you can get a stroller that nearly reclines all the way.
If you do that, my favorite travel system is the Baby Trend, at least to recommend to people. It's under $200, the car seat is one of the top safety rated (though the buckles are a pain in the neck I'll warn you now), and the stroller is a jogger that you can use as a stroller. I LOVE ours. They recline far enough back for about 2+months, so I wouldn't put a newborn in it, but if you can last the 2 months then it lasts to 40lbs. Only negative is that the basket is only rated to carry 5lbs, so you can't bring a huge diaper bag with you (or if you do you have to carry it.)
Shoot though. If you're dead set on a travel system, you can always find someone selling the stroller that goes with a travel system, buy that for a cheaper price, and then use the rest of the money to get the car seat, and get it cheaper that way. But I'm not a fan of travel systems. To me it seems like it ropes folks into thinking a baby should sleep in the car seat and it's just not safe.
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Things to consider. Why? I mean, except for transporting your baby in the car, a car seat should not be used for things like riding in the stroller, or on shopping carts, or things like that. It comes from the studies done in the last year or so that shows that a baby left to sleep or sit in an inclined position for too long can get into an oxygen lowered state. Ie, it's not good for them to be in an inclined position like a car seat for longer than 2 hours full in a day, until they're older than about 6 months old.
Now, since recalls done on strollers are far less than recalls done on car seats, you can get the stroller from someone selling second-hand (just doublecheck recall lists) and get a better car seat. The Chicco brand stroller, for instance, lays flat, making it usable from newborn on up. :) On Ebay, I can see a few for under $100 (make sure they say fully reclining.) I'm sure you could find some at Craigslist as well. :) Otherwise, you could consider using a baby chest carrier for the first few months until your baby is old enough (3-6 months) to sit at a slight incline, then you can get a stroller that nearly reclines all the way.
If you do that, my favorite travel system is the Baby Trend, at least to recommend to people. It's under $200, the car seat is one of the top safety rated (though the buckles are a pain in the neck I'll warn you now), and the stroller is a jogger that you can use as a stroller. I LOVE ours. They recline far enough back for about 2+months, so I wouldn't put a newborn in it, but if you can last the 2 months then it lasts to 40lbs. Only negative is that the basket is only rated to carry 5lbs, so you can't bring a huge diaper bag with you (or if you do you have to carry it.)
Shoot though. If you're dead set on a travel system, you can always find someone selling the stroller that goes with a travel system, buy that for a cheaper price, and then use the rest of the money to get the car seat, and get it cheaper that way. But I'm not a fan of travel systems. To me it seems like it ropes folks into thinking a baby should sleep in the car seat and it's just not safe.
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Did your latching system on your carseat/base ever wear out?
LOLeah
My daughter is 8 months old and we have just recently started having problems with our rear facing Baby Trend carseat/base. It still works, but we have to really push it down to get it to click into place. It seems to get more difficult every time we put here in there and I am worried about it eventually being unsafe. Has anyone else had a similar problem?
I don't know about cheapest...our travel system was $250, I thought this was comparable to Graco and other brands.
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Mine is not like that, if you get it in right it clicks right in. Even setting it in easy it still clicks into place. I'm sometimes quite gentle with it if my daughter is asleep so I will try to put it in really easy and it snaps in without even having to push it.
I would call the company and tell them about it. Also maybe take the carseat into babies r us and grab one of the bases off the shelf and see if it does the same thing with it.
Two Pretty in Pink - where are you shopping. Almost all teh travel systems at the babies r us where I live are between $250 and $300 and that is for the Chicco's, graco's, etc. Mine is a bertini which is identical to the eddie bauer and it was $259.00, that is not cheap by any means.
And baby trend is a good brand.
Mine is not like that, if you get it in right it clicks right in. Even setting it in easy it still clicks into place. I'm sometimes quite gentle with it if my daughter is asleep so I will try to put it in really easy and it snaps in without even having to push it.
I would call the company and tell them about it. Also maybe take the carseat into babies r us and grab one of the bases off the shelf and see if it does the same thing with it.
Two Pretty in Pink - where are you shopping. Almost all teh travel systems at the babies r us where I live are between $250 and $300 and that is for the Chicco's, graco's, etc. Mine is a bertini which is identical to the eddie bauer and it was $259.00, that is not cheap by any means.
And baby trend is a good brand.
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