Aria

Also recommend the aria! It’s super lightweight, easy to clean and install.

I have the Aria V1, we got ours before the V2 was released. We have had no issues with the V1 and use it with the uppababy minu travel stroller (love this stroller too). I believe the new V2 features allow the car seat to be used a little longer than the V1 (worth confirming I’m not mistaken), but I’ve been seeing the V1 on sale recently for a great price! Both are great choices, having a lightweight newborn car seat is amazing for pp recovery and when the baby gets heavier over time haha

We started with a convertible to avoid having to buy an infant seat. Our daughter was born winter, and after a month or two we decided to bite the bullet and get an infant seat and an extra base. The ability to carry her into appointments in the seat, as well as to snap her into the stroller for quick stops was really helpful. Also, much easier to deal with a little baby in the infant seat when it is raining or snowing, and the seat is warm when you put them in because it stays in the house. Now that she is older and in a convertible seat again, we find it often leads to us having to be much more careful about planning. We like to time our longer drives around naptime, but that means once she is asleep we can’t really make any additional stops, unless we are both in the car and one person stays with her. Getting an infant car seat with good longevity is recommended. We had an Aria v1 and she grew out of it really fast due to design flaws(she’s not a small baby but not huge). She is still nowhere near the limits on paper but was really uncomfortable. Hopefully the V2 is much better, but based on my experience I probably will go with a different infant seat for our second baby, thinking maybe Clek Liing. I would really like to keep the second baby in the infant seat to 12 months at least, hopefully longer.

I have the mesa and my baby is now 9 months. My biggest regret is not getting the aria! This seat is so damn heavy!! The aria v1 is on sale everywhere because the v2 comes out soon.

We use the aria at first because it came with the travel system that my mother-in-law gave us. But she was very uncomfortable with that, would cry all the time and while I’d like that it had the stroller attachment, which made it convenient, we rarely used that. We use the bassinet instead. We wound up getting when she turned about four months to the Chicco fit 360, it’s a bigger seat, but she is so comfortable and so happy.

I have the UB Aria and love it. It’s so light. I also love the sunshade in it. My baby is 4 months and currently 80th percentile in weight (almost 16lbs) and 95th in height (25 in), and was 9lbs at birth. I think we have probably 2 more months we can use it! And honestly, I can’t imagine using it longer than that outside of a car setting. She prefers either being held or the rumble seat to the car seat anyway. We also have a Doona that was gifted to use. It is useful in certain situations, but is SO heavy. I almost can’t use it without my husband to lift it into the car. We have the Cruz 2 stroller and love it as well. The connection points are really easy to use. We are looking at the Minu for something slimmer as she gets older.

We have the UB Aria and loved it! I appreciated how light it was, even with baby in it. We also have the Vista V3, so the transition from car to stroller was seamless. We transitioned to the Clek Foonf just before 6 months. Baby was still within the height and weight limit (still would be now at 6.5 months), but she looked uncomfortable width wise around her shoulders and was getting too heavy to carry in the seat (18lbs + 6lbs car seat). I imagine I would have switched her sooner if we didn't have a lightweight car seat.

Hey, congratulations on impending dad status. My daughter is a little over one and I've had no issues fitting her, my wife and a stroller in the back (but not much else) We started with an uppa baby aria (smaller and lighter) and recently I got a Evenflo Revolve 360 slim to move behind the passenger seat since she's grown out of the last one. My wife is 5'5 or so and with the car seat behind her it is a little tight, so we don't like to take long trips in the WRX.  So just being honest here about expectations, it's not going to be a everything vehicle. You won't be packing everyone in for a trip to Costco anytime soon with a stroller and diaper bag and everything else, we take the wife's SUV for that and long road trips, but that can be somewhat fixed if you get a roof rack with storage to expand capacity.