Joie - I-Spin 360

The car seat I got was the Joie iSpin 360. Used it since birth and she's been amazing in it. I've driven over 1000 miles with her and she rarely fusses. The best advice I got was to really think of you need to have the car seat for pram option. You might have thought it through which is why you are asking but just throwing it out there. My LO is 10 months now, and when I was pregnant I realised that the only use of the car is either to Tesco, hikes or long drives (200+ miles). At all destinations I would use the baby carrier or have the pram in the car. Honestly I rarely used the pram (I got a hand down from family), maybe one a week at most when she was a newborn and would be in the bassinet option. The seat is meant to last to 4, but I expect I'll hopefully have my second child before then who can use this seat and I'll upgrade to an older seat option.

Theres a couple Maxi cosi halo - being replaced with the raia (same seat different name). I have this one and love it, it’s extended rear facing, my roughly average 10 month old hasn’t hit the first marker yet so I’m quietly confident it will last rear facing for about 4 years. Joie 360 - not extended rear facing as per the manufacturer but the marker measurements are close to seats that are so there’s a lot of speculation it would last quite some time in rear facing mode. Nuna 360 (dunno the actual name) - nuna have pretty bad reviews for head flop caused by the positioning of the head rest, I’ve only looked at it and it looks a lot like their other seats so I would be cautious that it has the same issue. There’s a couple of fb groups dedicated to AUS car seats - some are a bit full on but I’ve found them overall helpful in terms of getting the harness fit right and install if that’s something you were curious about.

The Besafe Stretch is excellent for extended rear facing. The Joie ispin is great and very handy but only goes up to 18kg

Thanks it’s the joie 360 I-spin. You can’t take it out of the car but I think it should fit newborn. Yes the carrycot is a bassinet pram attachment (the joie ramble XL which attaches to the joie finiti). The pram already lies flat but baby would need to wear a harness. So bonus of carrycot is it could be carried into house and baby stay sleeping without a time limit (I think) - but we already have a Moses basket and a next to me crib which collapses for travel … I was trying not to overbuy stuff but seems we are possibly heading that way 😅

Okay thanks - I got the joie ispin 360 given the good which? review it got (5/5 stars rearward facing isize) There are different options for the bundles, but I think we would go for the joie I-level - though this is actually worse safety score than the ispin. I was originally thinking britax romer baby safe core as it is compatible, the belted set up scores highly but with the base its safety isn’t as high. Not sure how annoying it would be belting each time though so will look at some of the others you mention for compatibility with joie finiti

We use the Joie 360 for the car, never used the one for the pram as it just looked so uncomfortable. Plus the 360 has been great for my back. We used it til age 4 for oldest and now baby is using it.

We put the car seat in a travel bag, one with a cord tie at the end, left it at the front of the plane and picked it up at oversize baggage at the other end, other airports may require you to leave it at a certain point instead Fairly simple and standard affair, but it was a joie 360 model and was a ballache to move in the airport

If he’s on a spin base now, you’ll find you have a lot more space. We’ve got the MiniKid 2 and really like them (my son is 2.5 now). We have a Joie 360 in the grandparents car and you really need the spin to fit him in, but no issues with the mini kids!

I barely used our car seat in the pram. It's safest for baby to be flat so I decided that I didn't want to get into bad habits. I had the Joie360, but used the car seat that came with the pram for the early days. I found the spin really useful as I had a small 3 door and had experience of trying to get a car seat in the back, it wasn't that easy. But the spin meant I could have the seat facing me ready for baby then swivel her to rear face when she was strapped in.

Also, leave babies their seats with loose straps, which is worse as they slump down and their Airways get blocked. I had a Joie 360 to stop the temptation of doing this. My now 6yo hasn't outgrown it just yet. Although, we don't use it in my car anymore.

We decided not to use a car seat that attaches to the push chair and instead went for a joie i-spin 360 that stays attached in the car. We have a carry cot/bassinet attachment for the push chair instead.

We got Egg 3 pram/buggy and used the car seat attachment absolutely loads when baby was small. It was really handy if taking a quick trip in car to shop etc, just lift baby out and go. Our car seat also rotated out to face us so very handy. We got a BeSafe GoBeyond which fit the Egg adapters. It extended out to allow baby to be a bit flatter when in it. If you aren’t going to be in and out of the car much, then you won’t have much need for it. We’ve just upgraded to Joie 360spin car seat which is also great and goes up to 4y.