Nuna - PIPA Series

I would say that it depends on the case. In general, it is better for newborn babies to lie flat, so if you are planning on using your stroller for longer walks, it is better not to use the car seat for that. But if you will be using it primarily to go from your car to the store, that should be fine. But it is also worth checking if the convertible seat is really fully secure for newborns. Yes, they are rated for such and have inserts, but how tightly does it fit newborns and what angle is the baby positioned at? At least here in Germany, the typical advice is that infant carriers are safer than convertible seats for newborns. (But seats vary a lot by region, so this may not apply outside of Europe). As for me, I am in a different position this time (it's my fourth pregnancy), as we now live in a major city and don't own a car. I ended up getting the Nuna Pipa Next infant seat as it is very lightweight and therefore easy to move into a taxi, car-sharing car, or rental car on the rare occasions that we use them. We don't intend to use it with a stroller except perhaps on vacation. I did consider just starting with a convertible seat to save money, but decided against it.

Yeah, I live in a big city and also don't own a car, so I will likely barely use the seat. I bought a Nuna Pipa on sale from Babywalz for €135. I chose it because it has a relatively high weight range and my older kids were big when they were born. It is also doesn't weigh much so it is easy to use for car sharing. It was a model that was already discounted due to the color, I had a €10 gift card, and they were having a 15% off Nuna sale for one weekend only. According to their website, the exact same seat costs €220 at Zwergperten, but the German-speaking parenting internet would still view the decision to purchase the exact seat (**in advance, not after renting a seat first!**) for €85 cheaper as being terribly irresponsible. I mean, clearly the seats become magically less safe when purchased from an unapproved vendor. The proof that this happens is that the Fachhändler say so! And the Fachhändler couldn't possible be motivated by the profit that they make from convincing worried parents that they should buy their seats at inflated prices. They are purely performing a public service! And if it would actually common for infant seats not to fit full-term, normal-sized newborns, no seat on the market would be suitable, as a baby that is shorter/taller/slimmer/chubbier at birth could easily not be so after a couple of months, and then they could need a different seat a month later.

The pipa urbn /Nuna Trvl Lx combo is amazing. I have to walk down a flight of stairs and it works well. I like the Trvl LX because can be used from birth with a near flat recline, super early one hand fold, pretty light, and the wheels and frame are very strong handling not the best streets and sidewalks quite well. While I have a car, there have been times when I needed to take an uber and the urbn was perfect. It just plugs right into the latches. It was so much easier than doing a seat belt install each time. And while it is heavier than our pipa rx, it really wasn’t noticeable like I thought it would be. It felt the same with a 23lb baby in it as the RX. And when he was really little it was great.

We had the Pipa urbn and looooooved it. So easy and light. Twas a sad day when our daughter outgrew it.

She outgrew it around 11 mos.

The Noona is probably the best car seat that turns into a stroller - it’s an all-in-one. So you don’t have to worry about bringing along a separate stroller. It is great for the first year or so. And the Noona is stroller is small so you can easily bring it to wherever you’re going without it being a hassle. The ones like Uppababy Vista are good too, but it requires you to bring a separate stroller that you can click the car seat into. But once the kid outgrows the infant car seat, the stroller is just a large stroller and doesn’t really have any major benefits over any other stroller. I’ll say this - we used the Uppababy system for our first two kids then did the Noona for our third - and I really wish we had gone for the Noona in the first place.

Urbn, Graco GoMax, and Joie Mint latch are all baseless latch infant seats. All of the nuna seats can be installed baseless if you use a seatbelt btw. They’re all safe. People feel like they’re not safe because they’re new or because they don’t know how car seats work, but ask any CPST or look online for video demos - they can explain how it’s just as safe as other car seats on the market. People have this idea that the base that it clicks into, is safer, but when you have the baseless latch connection…it’s doing the same thing as the base is (connecting via latch lol) 😂 Idk the weight limits for the the Graco and Joie car seats but the nuna urbn, nuna pipa RX, and Aire RX all have the same weight and height limits now. They’re 4-30lbs and 16-30 inches. The older models varied more, but now they’re the same across the 3.

Secondhand car seats are not recommended because you don’t know if it’s been properly cared for. I highly recommend the Nuna pipa urbn for an infant seat. It has an integrated latch/isofix and was made with this sort of lifestyle in mind. It’s so easy to move between cars (and thus taxis and rental cars) because it doesn’t rely on the use of a base or seatbelt (if the car has a isofix bars, you can do seatbelt if a car doesn’t have it). It was the first of its kind but I do think other companies have since come out with a similar seat. I would look into something like that.

I have a Nuna Rava forward facing behind the driver seat, and a Nuna Pipa rear facing behind the passenger. Both front seats need to move forward from where we'd normally have them to accommodate the car seats behind. I'm 6'2" and when I drive, I do need to move the seat forward a good amount from my normally position because my 4 year old would other wise have only a couple inches for her feet. There is not room to comfortably fit a third person in the middle seat of the second row I'd say. And no easy way to get to the third row with two car seats installed.

I had a Nuna (Pipa Lite RX) with my first and the Joie Mint this time and prefer the Mint! My baby always kicked off the sky drape on the Nuna and the Joie Mint honestly feels like similar quality to me (I have the maple that comes with the nutmeg). Strollers and convertible car seats are worth spending extra money on in my opinion, infant seats are outgrown too quickly to justify it to me. They all go through the same safety testing.

We have the Nuna pipa baseless with rigid latch and love it. We don’t take a lot of Ubers but didn’t want to buy multiple bases and I 100% recommend. It’s so easy to click in and out and is compatible with every single car.

Joolz aer 2 and Nuna pipa URBN are what I’m doing for my nyc baby. This combo is most versatile for travel etc.

This is true. But Nuna just came out with Pipa Urbn flex set that attempts to solve this in the US. The stroller mom mentioned it in her stories today. I think it’s to force spending more on their travel systems. I got an unused URBN on the second hand market for $170.