Convertible car seat or infant car seat?

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I am a thrifty woman. I have to be considering we'll have 4 kids in the house soon. For my two, I used cheap infant car seats that were probably unsafe looking back. This time I was considering a convertible car seat. I know you have to be careful with those because some just don't fit newborns, but I was wondering, have any of you used convertible car seats for your newborns and how did they work? Or did you just use an infant car seat and get another car seat later?

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I think it's worth the extra money for the convenience of being able to take the infant car seat in and out of the car WITH the baby inside.  Can't imagine having to unbuckle the baby and wake him every time when he's so small.

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Infant first, convertible next...

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To me the infant car seat is worth the money until he outgrow it bc when he falls asleep in the car I don't wake him and he can nap in it for a while after we get home. Sometimes that's my only quiet time or time to get a few things done or per in peace lol but I only have one baby right now.

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For us anyway the plan is to use the infant seat as it clicks into the stroller and made the most sense for use. 
We do plan on getting a convertible one later on when she out grows the infant car seat.

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My daughter grew out of her infant seat by 5 months.  I never carried her in it though, I wore her in a wrap when we went out....so much easier and those infants seats get HEAVY

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Infant seat is totally worth it, for the fact that baby will fall asleep in it often, and you can take it right out and put it on the stroller. I switched all of my kids to a convertible around 9-10 months.

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I personally went with the infant car seat first because of the convenience. Where are you going to put the baby if you have a convertible one and need to run to the store? I am a thrifty person as well. I hate to spend more money than I have to on things. You can get good deals. We had our baby registry at babies r us and you get back so much money depending on how much stuff was bought off of it. My parents bought us the infant car seat off our registry and then once I got the money back from my registry (I got about $130) I used that towards a convertible one. On Labor Day babies r us was having a 25% off car seat same so I went on again and bought another for my SO car plus I had a $5 reward from shopping at babies r us. My LO is only 15 weeks old and I've got all the Car seats I'll need for the next how many years. I did notice when looking at the convertible ones that some were for babies birth-3 years old and others were made for 12 months-4 years old. So if you get a convertible ones from the start make sure you check that when buying. I know for me a convertible one wouldn't have worked well. My LO was only 5lb6oz so he would have been way too small.

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I couldn't ever compromise safety for cost. Especially when it comes to a baby. Some things are worth spending the extra money on, especially with all the crazy drivers out there today😩

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Depends on where you live. For me I have a lot of stairs and it's a hassle to have to take baby in and out of a convertible car seat opposed to keeping the baby in an infant carrier.

Convertible car seat or infant car seat?

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