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Perfect fit with the simplicity

Rated as one of the safest baby seats on the market. It's easy to install but I find the adjustment of the straps to be fiddly. We loosen the straps right off before placing baby in the seat then slowly tighten. It's a staggeringly expensive piece of kit which can only be used until baby is 15 months old. But what price can you put on a babies safety?

Bought this car seat after looking for ages for a safe infant seat.This product has the highest safety test scores out of all the infant seats on the market!Slightly heavy but it shows it’s good quality!Cannot wait for baby to arrive and use this seat

Of all the major baby brands, I’ve found Silver Cross are one of the best for considering real-world parental use. While this is pricey, it makes a difference to just have fitted in the car, because the time saving is immeasurable.You will need an ISOfix car. Which is fine as I believe most cars within the last 15 years were fitted with the system. It’s basically a metal grid underneath your car seats that was designed for the safety of attaching baby and child seats to.This car seat base is easy to set up, simply lock to your isofix, secure with the arm down to the floor, then push the base in as far as it will go to the back of your seat. Then the dream carrier just pops in and locks with a colour based system, which is very handy indeed.I also have a Britax car seat - my god it’s safe and secure, but its also a real faff to use. And it’s something you don’t notice for the first few weeks of having a baby, but you will, when you use a product 3 years on, every. Single. Day.So nowadays I welcome design that is convenient design, and this base fulfills that. It means I can put it in grandads car, and know that he can take the little one on a whim, and that I don’t have to switch over a whole car seat at 6am before work, or that he doesn’t have to deal with having both a car seat and a massive buggy switch if he just wants to take her to the park. Being able to put the dream seat straight in to the car, as it was taken straight off the buggy, or not used at all and carried - the efficiency, I truly love.It’s not so much a con, but something worth thinking about - with all major baby hardware, you have to invest in a system to make it financially worthwhile. Which means having the dream car seat, possibly two bases, and sticking with Silver Cross at least until you’re done with all the big bulky seats and buggies and whatnot. This isn’t just a Silver Cross thing, but something across the board with kids seats and prams. Welcome to parenthood! Sadly the biggest thing I learnt is that I can’t pay for the all the bits with Monopoly money. Sometimes it feels like you need it.Overall, this is a great base. I feel secure about it, it feels secure and incredibly well made as a product, and it’s put safety first with convenience and ease being a close second.

Bought for my newborn son. I have had a range of different car seats as he is my fifth child and this one was by far the most expensive. I expected a really comfortable seat for the cost but have to say I was disappointed. There is very little padding on the actual seat itself, most of it being in the extra inserts but even then its not the softest. It also weighs a ton compared to most seats which just after giving birth is really not helpful. My son is a small baby at just over 5lb and it is not designed for his size in my opinion. The straps are very thick and because he is so small he tends to bunch up in the bottom of the seat. Over all I expected a lot more from the brand and the price.

We have a car seat that is ISOFIX compatible, but most of the time we use it in a campervan that doesn't have the fixings. However, my parents-in-law's car does have the fixings. So I am writing this review as a comparison between using an ISOFIX base and a more traditional seat belt fixing for a car seat. The big caveat is that (thankfully) I haven't tested the seat or base in an actual crash!Overall: we find that the base is unnecessary, and makes for a less flexible arrangement than securing the seat through a seat belt. However, if you do want to use ISOFIX, this base is very easy to use (as I'm sure they all are).***Safety: ISOFIX vs seatbelts***I must admit I approach quite a bit of baby gear with a healthy dose of skepticism. We (new parents) are a sleep-deprived lot, doing our level best to navigate an incredibly new experience of having a mini-human entirely dependent on us, and utterly determined to protect that mini-human from harm. This is a heady cocktail into which the message 'this technology improves safety for your baby' is fairly irresistible.But how much safer? What are the risks of non-ISOFIX seats? Does ISOFIX reduce those risks? By how much? The short answers, as far as I can tell: A little bit; minimal; yes; from minimal to slightly-lower-minimal.Add into this mix that we are being sold products by an ever-more consumerist society, and it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the trend towards ISOFIX is driven by the desire to sell a (fairly superfluous) £180 (at the time of review) base to increase Silver Cross's profit margins, rather than a genuine concern for safety. (Another caveat: I have what I think is a healthy attitude to risk. But if having read the last paragraph you think I am a madman that is willing to risk their baby's life for the paltry sum of £180, this review probably isn't for you).***Ease of use: ISOFIX vs seatbelts***This will depend a lot on your usage. Both are easy, but both are annoying when you are carrying baby, a pram, baby changing bag etc. For us, seatbelts wins, mainly because we don't have a choice in our van, but also partly because we sometimes want to remove the whole child seat, base and all, and it is easier to do this without the base.The ISOFIX base is very idiot-proof, and the colour coding works well to show you when it is secure. If you are convinced of the value of ISOFIX, you'll find it reasonably easy to connect and remove the baby seat each time.

Regardless of how this seat performs in a crash test, the positioning for baby in an infant carrier is far more important. This seat promotes chin to chest, is far too upright and is therefore not safe for babies - especially smaller babies. Also super heavy to carry