Graco - 4Ever DLX 4-in-1 Car Seat (2215505)

We have four of [these seats](https://www.gracobaby.com/shop/car-seats/toddler-car-seats/all-in-one-car-seats/4ever-dlx-4-in-1-car-seat/SAP_2215505.html) and love them. We bought them Black Friday for 20% off. Was in a car accident with them and the kids were totally fine. They’re 4 now and find the seats comfy for long trips—my kids are tall. We also bought [this model](https://www.gracobaby.com/shop/car-seats/toddler-car-seats/all-in-one-car-seats/triride-3-in-1-car-seat/SAP_2216353.html) for my parents as my mom does a lot of childcare for us. Graco makes solid, reliable, safe and affordable seats. Not the most stylish, but they worked for our budget and most importantly keep them safe.

I have a graco snug ride 30 lite with the outpace LX stroller travel system. Car seat clicks right into stroller and then when she’s old enough she can use the stroller as normal. It’s super light and the stroller is heavy duty for all terrain, super easy to push. With that stroller, any graco infant seat will fit in it so you can buy the stroller and car seat separate if there’s one you like better. I have a graco 4ever dlx 4 in 1 for when she grows out of her infant seat.

We have the graco dlx 4 in 1. It’s one that grows with them and has some cup holders for them ☺️

Agreed on your comment about “think about your lifestyle.” For us, we like to travel, live in the city and didn’t want to carry around a bulky stroller so we opted for the Zen yoyo. Just came back from our first trip and it was a great stroller (we spotted the same stroller a lot among other parents). For car seats, we got something like a Graco 4in1 where you can still use it to toddler age. For diaper bag, could’ve gone without one and used any type of bag but we got the LLB and that worked well as a carry on/diaper bag.

I have the Graco forever and it's honestly not that bad if you need to take it out and move it around. It's in my SUV for 90% of the time and when my sons dad takes him, it gets moved to his car.

We bought the Chicco KeyFit 35 infant car seat and the Graco 4Evr Dlx convertible car seat. I panicked when someone said their hospital would only release them with an infant car seat, so we bought the KeyFit later. We bought the Mockingbird Single Stroller with the bassinet.

We used the Graco4Ever from the start with both kids. The hospitals were fine with us leaving with baby stroller with bassinet (Yoyo). In retrospect, it would have been more pleasant to have the infant seat for transitions in cold winter weather but we all lived.