Sunday, March 15, 2009

Car seat

We bought a new car seat for Hayley now that she's 1. It was tough to find the right car seat as there were so many out there. So many brands, so many models, so many mixed reviews... boy they were confusing and not really helping.

Anyway, in the end we found this. It cost us RM680 after discount. The reason why we picked this is because it is suitable for toddlers from 9 - 25kg (the usual ones are up to 18kg only), it is simple to use, easy to clean and most importantly Hayley is comfortable in it. Before buying the seat, we put her in it and she's happily sitting in there for almost 15 mins while I browse around the shop for other things. The brand of the car seat is Baby Shield (yes I have not heard of it too) and the one we chose is blue and orange in colour. We bought it from http://www.babyjaya.com/.


As we take turns to send Hayley to the babysitter and to bring her back, it is much easier now that we have 2 car seats, this one and the other which is an infant carrier which she can still fit in for a couple of months (we hope). In the past I have to carry her in one hand and carry the infant carrier in the other to the babysitter's place each morning so that the papa can bring her back in the evening alone if I am late from work.

When she can no longer fit in the infant carrier, we might just buy another cheap car seat from Carrefour or Tesco which we will only use for such short trips. We'll worry about it when the time comes :-)

2 comments:

Busy Bee said...

Yay!!! Glad that you found one that Hayley likes. It is important that they are comfortable in it so that they will continue to sit in it.

All Ryan's car seat are now taken over by Megan. Not bad ROI, hehe.

Kiasu Mom said...

Ya, before buying the car seat, we made her test them herself and make sure she likes them.

Now when I send her to the babysitter in the morning, she will sit quietly in her car seat :-)