Nuna - PIPA RX

I ended up getting both, BUT convertible came later. Usually the infant seat lasts anywhere from 6 months to a little over the 1st year..every baby is different. Mine grew out of the seat within 6 months height wise. We considered buying an extra base for our 2nd car, but i found it unnecessary. The carseat can be easily held in place without a base using the European belt method (if your infant carseat supports, mine did). I got a Nuna Pipa RX btw. European method really made a 2nd base unnecessary in the 2nd car. How i afforded both was I budgeted $$$ during the pregnancy for baby items. Which included the infant seat. When baby was born, I again started saving money but specifically for the convertible carseat I wanted. Once I accumulated the money I needed, I held it separately on top of my savings in my savings account. When baby was starting to reach the height/weight limit (which i tracked after each doctors visit), id finally buy the convertible...reason I held off on buying right away was because I would periodically check the web for any potential mark downs on the carseat i wanted. Any discount, is still a discount..if a mark doen never came up, then id just bite the bullet and buy it at full price since I already saved that amount of money. However you can totally opt out of an infant seat all together if you want to, and just opt in for the convertible (as long as its newborn compatible).The infant seat is not technically a "need", while the convertible is definitely a need at some point for everyone. Cutting out cost for the infant seat lets you save that money for other things you may want, like a nice baby carrier for when you take baby out of that convertible seat. Baby wearing is pretty popular. I dont think i need to explain pros and cons of 1 vs the other, since its pretty obvious, unless of course you do want that information, ill gladly feed your brain...I think I made this comment long enough..if not way too long, sorry.

Uppababy Vista V2 for the win! We didn’t like the uppababy car seats so went with the Nuna Pipa RX and got the adapter. It’s super easy to snap on and both are working really well for us. I also was dead set on a bassinet attachment and am really glad I followed through because we love it and use it all the time. Baby is 1 month old and we use the bassinet attachment when we go out to dinner. She sleeps so well in it! We also use it daily for walks.

We absolutely love our Nuna Pipa RX. The base is so easy to install and takes me all of 15 seconds, which is super nice when we need to change vehicles. The bucket seat clicks right in. 15/10, would buy again. My LO is 14 months and just outgrew it due to her height and graduated to the Rava. Edit to say I bought it on sale during the Nordstrom anniversary sale. I want to say I got ~$150 off, but can't remember exactly.

We just purchased a Nuna Swiv and Nuna Pipa RX! If you have time, wait and see if the new triv LX comes back in stock. I recommend to go to a Nordstrom or somewhere to try them in person

I personally didn’t hate it but also didn’t love it. I had the Keyfit 35 cleartex zip. The elastics for the zip canopy always came off. It was extremely annoying, and it was HEAVY. I felt pretty uncomfortable hand carrying it, especially with its weight. And the straps on it were super annoying to get a decent fit. They’re super thick, and always looked like my babies weren’t tight in it but they were. I did like how it was safe, and the seat at the time went up to 35lbs. Plus the no-rethread harness is super nice. I’m due next week with my 3rd and had to get a new infant seat since the mice got into our Chicco Keyfit. We ended up getting the Nuna Pipa RX and I’m pretty pumped for the weight difference (I make large babies haha) and the shape of the handle. The squareness of the handle seems like it will be more comfortable on my elbow when I have to hand carry? Idk, I hope it’s helpful at least! Lol

I really like our nuna pipa rx infant car seat. It’s light, easy to carry, clicks into the base super easily, and the base itself feels really heavy duty/sturdy. I love the nuna winter footmuff you can buy as an accessory. This keeps baby nice and warm, and on extra cold days I tuck a blanket under it. It’s been really easy to use with our UPPAbaby stroller. It does require an adapter piece but that snaps on to the frame in 2 seconds and doesn’t really take up any extra space in the trunk. Also the nuna pipa looks really sleek too

You can’t order Lyfts and Ubers with car seats anymore. KidCar is an app that allows you to order a car with car seats but the app is not very user friendly and I believe you have to pre-order in advance. It’s also more expensive. We’re a year in and when we need a taxi, we use the Nuna Pipa RX because it’s very light and can be installed without a base using the European seat belt path and we purchased adaptors for the Uppababy Minu V3. I also purchased a very cheap Uppababy Vista V2 on Facebook marketplace - I use this when grocery shopping or when we’re out for the day. We also had a fall baby and we spent a lot of time walking to break up the monotony. Good luck!

This was me a month ago. I did all the research and reading online and was so overwhelmed. I didn’t think there was a baby boutique in our city so we went to Nordstrom. The sales girl there was only knowledgeable about Nuna strollers/seats so she showed us those and I was pretty overwhelmed by all the options. Then my husband found a baby boutique in a city 3 hours away so we took a day trip. That was amazing. They had a dedicated sales person go through all their products and demoed everything. Very thorough. They had a regular car seat there with a seatbelt to show you how to strap these infant car seats in without the base. And I also felt I was less overwhelmed this time bc I had already seen them once. Then they told me there was a baby boutique in my city lol. So third time I went to the store in my city. This time we pretty much know which one we wanted but wanted to check out swatches and compare some minor details and had some additional questions. So I highly recommend going to a store to check these out. Another pro is that they’ll usually let you take the floor model car seats out and test it in your car. You want to make sure it fits bc once opened, they can’t be returned. Con is they usually only have the most expensive brands and once you look at these, the cheaper brands will look like crap lol. My husband keeps going up to cheaper stroller and shaking them and say this is not a sturdy as UB lol. So we decided on the Nuna Pipa RX with the base. My husband wanted the anti rebound feature which is in the base. We’re just getting one bc we use my car 90% of the time. We were debating between this and UB Aria bc the Aria is so light. But the sales person told us the Aria is shorter so babies outgrow it faster. Although a new version is coming out soon. He said most babies will outgrow a car seat height wise before weight. For stroller we’ll probably go with the UB Vista. I wanted the Minu bc it’s so light and compact, can lay flat, and has a strap for carrying but my husband wants big wheels. Then I was considering the Cruz bc it’s slightly smaller and more easy to maneuver. But I don’t think I can wait for the Cruz V3 bc I’m due in September. And we also want to have 2 kids back to back if everything goes well. Sorry for such a long comment lol.

We have the pipa rx. It honestly doesn’t seem any safer than any other car seat, except maybe the stability leg. It looks and feels nice, but idk if that justifies the cost. Check out Wirecutter’s reviews on car seats. Graco and Chicco are perfectly safe!

We have the Nuna Pipa URBN and LOVE it!! This is our first baby though so we don’t have much experience with any other car seat. We initially bought the regular Pipa that uses a base and it made our passenger seats virtually unusable (2016 BMW X5 and 2019 Volvo XC-90). The URBN sits lower on the seat due to not using a base and fits much better. It is a breeze to get in and out of our cars, easy and stress free to use in others’ cars, and I love that when I don’t have his car seat in my car all the seats are usable (none taken up by a base). I will say we’ve put it in a couple cars where the seat latches are covered with fabric held in place by Velcro and it has to be undone to install, which is less convenient, but hasn’t been a huge deal for us and in those cases we just use the included latch guides. We also heard people say the base is easier to get in and out every day but for us it’s been super easy, but again we only have experience with the baseless! I’ve also heard critiques about the size/weight limit, but my son was 16 lbs (25th percentile) at 6 months and it’s already pretty heavy. I can’t imagine wanting to carry a baby in a bucket seat around past the 22lb URBN limit personally.