The Non-Wiggle Chair

In the UK, until s/he reaches 20lbs, an infant must only ride in rear facing car seats in the back of the car or in the front with the air bag having been disabled. There is research (somewhere) to show that it is more safe for infants to continue riding rear facing for as long as they can. However, Isaac has been getting increasingly fed up with staring at the back of the seat for a while and his legs were all scrunched up, but we abode the weight rule. 

During the same visit to Mothercare in which Isaac's first shoes were purchased, I sneakily weighed The Wiggler on the store scales (because I haven't taken him to clinic for aaaaaaaaaaaaaages) only to find that he has finally reached the 20lb mark! Yippee! 

So, as I need no persuasion to shop, we bought him a front facing seat for the car.

He thinks it's GREAT! Now when we go out he's busy watching where we're going, looking at all the things happening outside the car and playing silly games with me in the mirror. I think it helps him on longer journeys that he can see me, plus I love being able to see my Wiggler too!

When we had Isaac we got a Maxi-Cosi car seat & an EasyFix car seat base with plans to buy the next one up to utilise the same base. Here we have been thwarted by Maxi-Cosi who no longer make car seats to fix said base. They now may the FamilyFix base. Gah. We figured that we aren't going to be taking it in & out of the car the way we did with the carry-style seat and it won't be long before he's climbing in & out himself.

Instead we went for the Maxi-Cosi Tobi. From experience with Roisin when she was smaller, we knew we wanted one with a soft seat; some of them are so hard! The Tobi has the required soft seat. It does most things that seats in its class do (5 point belt system, reclines slightly from sitting to sleeping position etc), but it  also has an additional safety point that I didn't see on others. As well as the car belt securing around the bottom of the seat, it also feeds around the top of the seat. I like this. Call me paranoid, but I don't think extra safety is a bad thing in cars.  The age range goes up to 4 years, however, from experience I don't know he'll be in it for that long. The base on this seat doesn't take up as much room as the EasyFix either so, when all 5 of us are in the car, it should be easier to get all 3 of the kids done up in the back without the customary jiggery pokery. Plus it was on sale. Everybody wins!