The New Car Seat

From left to right: Safety First, Chicco, Baby 1st

Dear Baby,

Last month, before Christmas, mommy said to daddy, "I think we need to upgrade, she can hardly fit in the seat." This was referring to the two baby car seats that was loaned to us by a couple of mommy's friends. The top of your head was the same level as the top of those seats and it was a tight squeeze to get you into them.

Knowing full well we still need to keep you rear facing for safety, the only thing was to get a convertable, one that can rear face and later on forward facing.

One rainy sunday we went out. We first went to this one shop that sells lots of baby and kids stuff, Triple Star. They had a convertable, it cost BN/SG$500, and it can only go up to 18kg. Considering you were half way there already it won't last us long. While daddy was walking with you mommy was asking lots of questions to the salesman, finding out if he knows the product and what he's talking about and cross referencing with the manual, and the manual was pretty complicated too. I give him 3/5 for effort.

Still not feeling that satisfied we went to another shop. Obviously the Mothercare here doesn't have anything like that, and we popped next door to BebeLand. As we headed upstairs towards their baby gear mommy spotted a seat that might possibly be a convertable. The salesman took it down and mommy had him explain how it works and at the same time was looking through the manual. I wasn't sure if the guy understood what I was asking him but the manual was much more easy to understand and I'm pretty confident with this seat and the weight limit is 40kg! And not only that, it happen to be 20% off as it was the last one so we got it at $400! And it was only manufactured last year too.

Daddy decided you also needed a rain coat and a cardi to go along with the purchase.

The car seat took up the whole of the trunk of the car.

As you can see in the picture it's a whole lot bigger too. As time went by mommy likes the seat more and more. Must remember to take a picture of you in it. Installation was easy, there's a level to show how it needed to be placed for rear facing, so useful, it has a five point harness, and arm rest that can be moved up or down. And when you're older it can be used as a child seat and then a booster seat. Perfect!

Currently we're down to one car household and it's mommy's car which is rather small, we had to push the front seat forward all the way just so the car seat can be installed and inclined. When daddy's car is all fixed the car seat will move in there so they'll be more room.

Past week mommy been returning items that people have lent, and the chicco car seat was the last to go, it belonged to Uncle Erwan and Auntie Mimi, they are expecting another little one in a few weeks.When I dropped off their car seat showed them your convertible. Uncle Erwan mentioned how mommy managed to get just one car seat that covers all the stages and cheaper too as they had to go through the baby seat, child seat and toddler seat route because they were told there is no such thing and that was only two years ago.

I'm not sure how this is going to work when you have another brother or sister... we'll see how things goes, will probably be borrowing a baby seat again, and if they're going to be anything like you in terms of growth... hmmmm....

Love,
Mommy