November : Car seat - Spare or Splurge

The next in shopping list is infant car seat which is a requirement in order to take our baby home, we need to have the car seat installed and have it approved by a supervisor from hospital before we can drive our baby home. Since we already bought the bugaboo stroller, the car seat is limited to only 3 brand that can use the adapter to snap in to our bugaboo; Graco, Peg perego and maxi-cosi.

Graco : safeseat step 1
Peg perego : primo viaggo
Maxi-cosi : mico

I take trip to several of the baby store and finally found a good helper from Chandra, the right start store manager(http://www.rightstart.com/), she is very nice and give a lot of helpful hints for the first time mom like me.
As I and PP fall in love with design and performance of Maxi-cosi, I fell to consider about weight limit and height limit of each car seat. According to the www.app.org and info from Chandra, the Maxi-cosi is a compact one and our baby tend to have long torso-consider my height and PP, so Ai might have use of this car seat at most 5-6 month only :(

If the baby crown is at 1" from the top of the shell of the car seat, it is the time to upgrade the car seat to a bigger one. And each of the car seat will expired after 6 years from the manufactured date.

Finally, I go home with the Graco-safeseat step 1 in black and silver with red trim, which will give me extra weight and height limit for Ai up to 30lbs and 32". and also fit nicely into our black bugaboo :)