Pixel PRO 2.0 C

I didn’t use it much when she was first born, however now she’s three months I clip the car seat into the stroller more. I have an incredibly curious and nosy baby and she gets frustrated with how little she can see when she’s in the carry cot. You don’t need to buy a “travel system” though. We have a silver cross pram/stroller and just clip our car seat (Avionaut pixel pro) into it using the universal adaptors. Car seats vary a lot in terms of quality and actual safety so I recommend you look at their ADAC scores before buying one.

I have the Avionaut pixel pro, the fit it gives newborns is second to none, it’s also one of the lightest car seats on the market which makes it so easy for daily use and it has fantastic ADAC scoring. It also fits maxi cosi adapters so can fit onto most prams. Some people will tell you all car seats are tested to the same standard. But in the uk this standard is barely the bare minimum. I recommend looking at Swedish plus tested car seats. Its much more rigorous

I had the Avionaut pixel pro 2.0 for the infant carrier and it was always 50/50.if she was in a good mood she went in the seat fine and would often fall asleep. Then moved up to the Avionaut Sky2 she loves it and often falls asleep or sits there playing with a signing toy.

The best infant car seats are the Avionaut Pixel Pro or Cosmo, or the BeSafe Go Beyond. All are reallly supportive and ergonomic from the smallest babies and are attached to almost all travel systems to. The Avionaut ones are really lightweight. The BeSafe Beyond second stage seat for the base has the highest weight limit for a rotating car seat on the market and should get all but the heaviest of children to a safe booster seat age, which is why we chose that and we loved the infant carrier. It’s one of the best baby purchases I’ve made and id recommend to anyone. Just a note on a lot of car seats which market themselves as newborn suitable (like theJoie Spin ones), newborns rarely get a good fit, so if you do want to go down the fixed seat route, you might want a cheaper infant carrier (like the Britax Baby Safe) to tide you until you get a good fit in the bigger seat.

For car seats, while basically all infant carrier are safe in crash tests because they all have the same basic concept, not all are supportive for newborns and especially tiny and premature babies. They can put babies in a chin to chest position which can restrict my their airways. And some seats have really bulky inserts which fit a newborn well but have an awkward transitional stage where they’ve outgrown the inserts but don’t fit properly in the seats. Some of the more supportive ones are Avionaut Pixel/Cosmo; BeSafe Go Beyond; Britax BabySafe; Maxi-Cosi Cabriofix; Cybex Cloud Z. You can sometimes get these seats in bundles.

A pram isn't a safety item. You want the bassinet to be certified for safe sleep as some babies sleep great in the pram. You want UV protection and for it to be easy to navigate on the terrain you're gonna push it on. Otherwise, it's a pram. Any will do. The car seat is a safety device. You need to invest more in safety items imo as it will save your baby's life should an accident occur, or as I tell my patients (midwife), you just need to brake a little too hard and baby could suffer serious injuries. The best of the best infant carrier is the Avionaut Pixel Pro. The Avionaut Cosmo is a great budget option. Isofix is not safer than belting in the seat but it is more convenient (I actually found it more hassle whereas my partner loved having the isofix base). I regret buying a whole travel system. So expensive and we bought a cheaper stroller which we now use all the time. If I could rewind time, I wouldn't have got sucked into buying a big bulky travel system.

Try and find an independent car seat shop that specialises in extended rear facing. They will know what is best and give you lots of options at different price points. The gold standard in infant carriers seems to be the avionaut pixel pro or cosmo. In terms of the buggy go to JL and try them out!’

I'd look at Avionaut, if you still want an infant carrier to lift out when bubs is little the Pixel Pro is incredibly light compared to others, I believe they now do a rotating base. Or if you don't need to regularly move the seat and are happy having a fixed seat the Stardust is an excellent seat, you can add on the infant insert and it is suitable from birth (some of these types of seats claim they are but often don't give a good fit until a few months in), and it's then suitable for rear facing until 125cm or 21kg and can then be used as HBB with the cars belt. Avionaut have really unique infant inserts and are very supportive, keeping bubs in a good position for their spine and airway. We've had both the seats above and many others and they have by far been my favourites.

Avionaut (for newborn) or Axkid belted seats have been my go-to in my 2015 110. We have been working with an ERF specialist and currently have two toddlers in Axkid minikid pros and those things are bombproof 👌