Capsule to car seat

When did you move your babies from the capsule into a car seat and which ones did you buy? My baby is 8 months old and even though the capsule goes up to 13 kgs I am thinking of moving her into a proper car seat soon. She just seems to be more and more uncomfortable in the capsule.

We hired a capsule for 6 months and Gabs is almost 5 months now and we have to give it back in a week or so, so our decision was already made for us. We could have extended the time we kept it as Gabs is only a small bubba and would be okay in it for another couple of months, but it would have cost us extra, so we just went out this weekend and bought a safe n sound guardian carseat. Safe n sound are more expensive but you get what you pay for, they have been tested more extensively than some other brands and have a better guarantee.

However, you are probably best to go into one of the baby shops or talk to plunket about it if you're not sure. It can be quite confusing if you have no idea what to look for.

We have a safe and sound. He was in that pretty early as its rear facing or forward facing. But we used the capsule when using DH's car.

We love our carseat!

We moved Issy out of her capsule and into a carseat not long after her three month "birthday" as they recalled the capsule (it was an Evenflo).

She is now rear facing on the newborn setting of the carseat. (Its a hipod and we got it from Farmers).

We moved Keziah over to her Convertible car seat at 5 months (rear facing/reclined) as we were due to give the Plunket car seat back at 6 months anyway (we returned it the same day we purchased the convertible)..i found the bigger she got the harder the capsule was to carry so it worked out in the end

I'm glad that there is a recent thread on this - I typed in 'car seats' in the search and man, are there lots of threads or what!?!

We've thought about now just getting a convertible car seat instead of borrowing our friends capsule - we were lucky to get some money sent over from the UK to help pay for some kind of 'big' baby thing from my Sister in Law, so I thought of getting a convertible seat rather than a capsule then a seat -

so it seems Safe n Sound are the best brand to go with - anyone know of any sales coming up!?!

Blair was in his capsule until he was about 4 or 5 months primarily due to length. He now loves his carseat, and no longer cries when we put him in it at night like he used to. *touch wood*

We had a convertible (Safe & Sound Royale) in DH's car from the start, and just used the P&T capsule in my car. He is now over 6 months so have just bought a second Royale for my car.

We got them from Kiwibaby as they are miles cheaper there - $349 on the website compared to $399 at the Baby Factory. (was $329 instore as well)

There is no seatbelt strap in the way though? The straps go up the foot end (rear facing) and over the back seat to the anchor point. Not across the door.....

It does sound like the teether strap ... its used when rear facing so goes around the seat and anchors in the boot/hatch part of the car.

I imagine all carseats have these.

If you mean when you open the door .. the teether strap is between you and the baby.

We had Livvy in her capsule until about 4 months and then had to pass on the capsule to the next baby in the family and we got given my sisters Safe n Sound Royale convertible car seat. It has the straps going across the door as well and it is a bit annoying but quite managable. I would've thought most rear facing seats would need it though.

There was a car seat review on here a while back for one that didn't have straps in the way and it was a great review but the car seats were quite pricey from memory. I'll try and find the thread and bump it.

Edited by Freesia