🛑Stop buying cheap car seats for travel🛑

[@fernlin-healy2174]

An inexpensive car seat does not mean a less safe car seat. Expensive car seats have features like adjustabilty, better padding, higher weight/height limits so it can be used longer, and so on. But they aren't more safe. All of them pass the same federal tests. In addition, in Baby Gear Lab's own crash tests, a $500 Nuna seat was outperformed by a Graco seat costing half as much. In Consumer Reports' crash tests, the cheapest seat on the market, the $60 Cosco Scenera Next, performed better than average. That's the seat my 20 month old daughter was in when she was in the middle car of a 3-car accident. The car was totaled, but my daughter was completely unscathed.

[@Missy5799]

I’d definitely rather travel with the premium one, ESPECIALLY while flying(I’m a nervous and very anxious flyer. Warned my fiancé our baby will NOT be a lab child if I can help it and if they are then he will have to hold them always). I’m honestly not trying to be malicious and knocking other car seats because I know everyone’s finances are not the same. For myself I’d just feel more comfortable. The only consistent experience I had with car seats was my friend’s Uppababy & Nuna car seats for both her daughters and they were HEAVY DUTY. Didn’t think much of it until one day I had to grab her kids from daycare and they forgot to leave the Rava at the daycare center for me to put in my car to get them home. The daycare themselves let me borrow a Graco car seat which I was grateful for but I was so perplexed because that thing felt like it weight 2lb if that and would anker into the car as sturdily as the Nuna. I was so nervous that entire drive back and swore I was never putting her kids back in that thing or my own. All car seats are supposed to pass the same safety test I believe but when you use and compare them you can tell the qualities are different and the features are different. My friend’s car seat was a tank and that Graco one I borrowed felt like I strapped her kids into my car with floss. I’m way to nervous for that lol

[@Bambibaby]

thank you