KeyFit Max ClearTex Infant Car Seat

We had the Chicco cleartex infant seat and now have the Chicco cleartex rotating seat and love it! If you decide to go with a jogging stroller, we are obsessed with our Guava stroller! Have used it twice a day for over a year and it is still good as new!

Chicco is an outstanding brand! I love their seats and would buy them again.

I like my Chico!! I had a maxi cosi before and this is way better

Commenting that i have the same set up and find it no big deal at all either! the adapter sits by our door in the car seat and goes into the trunk with my cruz base. We only use the car 1-2 times per week anyways. I found the Chicco really easy to install and was an excellent price point, and do not all regret or resent not having the "matching" car seat. Would make the same choice again.

No great advice here (also a soon to be FTM) but don't most carseats have the ability to be used baseless? I'm planning to get the Chicco Keyfit Max Cleartex, which has a base but installs baseless the same way as the Nuna for like $300 less. It's a good 3 lbs heavier though. Cleartex line is flame retardant free and greenguard gold certified (but still just polyester).

So I used the Chicco Corso travel system and liked it - except that full sized strollers are really big. I ended up baby wearing mostly and in the end, barely used our stroller. I think it is definitely personal preference but if I were to do it again, I think a convertible car seat and a small stroller (like the Bombi or Zoey) would have been best for me. I will say though, it is nice being able to easily take a sleeping infant out of the car with the bucket seat, and get them buckled inside during New England winters.

If you're set on a Chicco Keyfit, but don't want to use an adapter for the car seat, I'd seriously consider the Chicco Corso Travel System. It has basically all the features as an Uppababy Cruz (which is basically a Vista without the option to extend to a double stroller) but from Chicco. Can click in the car seat right into the frame which I love. Then the stroller seat can be forward or parent facing which is super important and something I didn't consider enough with our first stroller because we thought baby would have been in the bucket seat longer. Lol jokes on us, he hated it and we swapped him to an Evenflo Revolv car seat at like 5 months? So we had to switch to the main stroller seat but we had a Bravo which cannot parent face. So that didn't work as well for us as we hoped. Our friends loved it though. If you feel like you need the bassinet I'd look at Uppababy or Nuna though because I believe both have one and Chicco doesn't. If that isn't a want for you guys, I'd definitely consider looking at the Corso and comparing it to the Uppababy Vista/Cruz and some of the Nuna stuff. You could also totally get the Chicco stroller frame initially which is just for the car seat and then get a stroller with a baby/toddler seat once you have a better idea of what you want and how you'll use it. I wouldn't look at a specific travel stroller until they're older (well over 6 months). But our favorite is the Munchkin Sparrow Ultra if you want something compact and that's basically a fancy umbrella stroller. Not a lot of storage but if you just need it for airports, hotels, and similar situations, it's fantastic. Best of luck hun. ETA sorry I missed the bassinet thing. Either get the adapter for the car seat for Uppababy or Nuna unless there's a stroller you like more for the bassinet. If you don't think you'll have a second kid very close in age, I'd consider the Cruz over the Vista for the weight. That way you're not paying for the expand to double feature if you're not gonna use it