
Cosco Kids
Scenera Next DLX Convertible Car Seat
Super light, cheap, great for air travel, but outgrown fast.

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I used the litemax with my first and she was content in it. Later we got the Graco 4ever and she was okay with it but we got a third car seat the diono slim and she loves this one.
We have a travel car seat - the diono r3 - and you can buy straps for it that effectively make it into a backpack. We've used it domestically and internationally and it fits on coach seats (front facing) and then you can use it rear facing for the car once you get where you're going. Every time we travel with it, we have parents stopping us and asking about it. Super light weight and easy to use!
I have three boosters in my ‘24 and it is tight. Three full-size, double cupholder childseat Britax will not fit (have them and tried). To get the fit you have to buy special slim seats and I’ll second the mentioned Diono brand.
We have 98 and 99th percentile kids and Diono car seats have saved us so much. We had a Graco baby car seat with base even though the Diono has insert for infants. It was just easier to carry baby and we used it for both kids as the were close in age. They are giant 3 and 5yos now and with the long expiration date and weight limit of 120lbs, they’ll be in them until high school. Second hand baby Bjorn bouncer was amazing. Anything food or potty related get the least complicated smoothest surface area products for easy cleaning. Ikea high chair, little partners wooden booster seat, and one piece potty seat.
We loved our Britax Boulevard but it was not at all good for bigger kids rear facing longer! I think the weight limit was 35 on latch install which some of my kids hit before age 2. We had to change to Diono Radian and Graco Extend to fit to keep them rear facing.
I’d recommend 3x of the diono seats. Their whole marketing thing was that you can fit 3 across in most cars. I found them easy to take apart to clean as well, although maybe that was because we just had so many and we did it a lot of times it got easy. On our last trip which had like a 3 hour drive each way, my wife was like “we should clean the car first”… I was like it’s just gonna be covered in damn snacks as soon as we leave the driveway, why bother.

Cosco Kids
Scenera Next DLX Convertible Car Seat
Super light, cheap, great for air travel, but outgrown fast.

Cosco Kids
Scenera Next Convertible Car Seat
Portable, affordable, quickly outgrown, airplane buckle discomfort.

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