Evenflo - Revolve360 Slim

My skinny kids get bruised from some seats. Ive also had a cheap seat that was so difficult to tighten i threw it out. If i couldnt guarntee i could fasten the kids safely, it wasnt a safe seat. I will never touch the Evoflo brand again. 

Have two of these - one slim and one extend, and I second all of this! Absolute game changer. I don’t think I could ever go back to non-revolving.

I am a CPST here in the US, so I have an extensive collection of car seats. I do a baseless install with a Nuna pipa, but I just installed the revolve slim today for my 1 year old (he is small) my 4 year old uses a Graco tranzitions and my 6 year old uses a bubble bum inflatable booster. My 4 year old has also used a ride safer travel vest. I’ve seen people manage 3 across with the graco slimfit. I’m not sure what seats you have access to. It’s doable though. My kids haven’t complained about being cramped when we do 3 across. We don’t drive more than 2 hours usually in one direction. If we are doing a longer trip, we drive my large suv.

Honestly, the problem with this is that every person and every baby are different. I’m a disabled parent, so having the mini fridge in the babies room to have some bottles ready to go is super helpful, especially because my baby does not need to have bottles warmed. We also have a lot of duplicate things (like all of my pump parts) so that I don’t have to do the stairs constantly. The angel care tub I found to be really helpful, but I wish I had gotten the little whale tub because it seems like it lasts longer. I found the brezza bottle washer to be incredibly useful. Same for the canopy humidifier. I also bought a rotating car seat for my car. I will say having an Amazon prime and Target 360 membership was really helpful. Because sometimes we really needed to pick things up last minute or have them delivered overnight. Or while I was on maternity leave have things delivered because I was by myself.

I have the evenflo 360 slim (mine was not recalled), but make sure you measure your car for the dimensions both in forward and rear facing

We have a 360 slim car seat and it is life changing! It rotates! It’s thin enough to fit in the back seat of our tiny golf with a doona in the middle! I can sit in the back seat with 2 car seats now! 2 way zip pjs SwaddleMe sacks for tiny babies. We took a week to transition out of them, but the time our newborns were in it was well worth it Cloth diapers! We have about 30 of them and they’re on their second kid. First born was poop trained at 14mos and pee trained at 2.5. We still use them for overnights cause I don’t want to fuss with a wet soggy pee soaked bed EVER Portable potty seat - we have 3; one for our home toilet, one for when we go to see family/friends, and one that is portable enough/ folds down for our toddler to pee comfortably at the park when she needs to go and there isn’t a bathroom around. OH! I have a lot of baby carriers. A ergobaby that is my daily work horse, a ring sling, an emergency solly wrap for the car, a carrier for papa, and an extra boba carrier that the older toddler can still sit in. We use carriers EVERY DAY! Everyone else has great recommendations too! Good luck!

My Evenflo 360 slim is FAA approved. I’d rather cut my ear off and eat it than lug that seat through airports, however.

[this Graco](https://www.target.com/p/graco-triride-3-in-1-convertible-car-seat-kipling/-/A-80179068) seat would be my suggestion for the “cheap” seat. And FWIW the Evenflo 360 slim is a great seat and worth it. That’s what we have for the twins once they leave the infant seat.

I had an infant car seat then switched to rotating convertible at 4m and wish I went with convertible from the start. We never used the infant car seat as a method of transportation if you want to call it that, it always stayed in the car and we just took baby out into stroller or carried her home or baby wore. Our main stroller is the UB vista and our infant car seat was the Chicco key fit and our convertible was evenflo 360.

If you have multiple vehicles either buy one for each car or commit to one being the family car and the other just for one person to commute if that works for you. If you have someone who frequently helps out with transporting your kid ie a grandparent that does daycare pickup 2 days a week you have two options- either buy a cheap convertible seat that they keep in thier car, or get one that is easy/quick to install/uninstall (I like the evenflow revolves for this) As for Ubers, avoid if you can because it is a pain (consider public transit) or again spring for one that is easy and quick to install/uninstall

We also have the Evenflow 360 with various different models. Agreed, get measurements. When our rear facing seat is installed on the passenger side, the front seat passenger doesn’t have a ton of leg room or ability to recline in our 2010 double cab Tacoma. Our 2024 RAV4 has more space and is more comfortable. Other vehicles we’ve tried them in: 2021 Subaru Outback - decent spacing, comparable to the RAV4. 2023 Cadillac CT5V - plenty of space compared to above. 2021 Jeep Gladiator - very little space. My knees were basically in the dashboard and I had to sit completely upright. This is all from front passenger seat perspective. And if it helps, I’m 5’7” with long legs and Fiancé is 6’1”.