Baby Trend Flex-Loc Infant Car Seat

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 26 x 16.5 x 25 inches ; 15.4 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 21 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• Shipping Advisory: This item must be shipped separately from other items in your order. Additional shipping charges will not apply.
• ASIN: B004MDL5UA
• UPC: 090014012731
• Item model number: CS31992
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: 27,957 in Baby (See Top 100 in Baby)
  

By : Ba Trend
List Price : $119.99
Price : $98.54
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Item Description

Color: Provence
From the Manufacturer
The Child Trend Flex-Loc Infant vehicle seat is the ultimate fashionable security necessity in the car secured with a base or on the go. This distinct style, Provence capabilities a mixture of turquoise and brown utilizing scrolls and prints to invoke a style for those with a additional refined taste. Safety characteristics consist of a 5-point safety harness an easy one particular hand harness, and the EPS energy-absorbing foam for superior side influence head protection. Security and adjustable comfort attributes are what make the Child Trend style the 1 rated infant automobile seat. Parents might use the four-position push button height adjustable base with a level indicator for right installation to let the infant automobile seat to develop with their kid. Also, the vehicle seat has a height adjustable seat back without having any harness rethreading and a boot that will shield your infant and produce extra warmth. The comfort extends to the parent with a smooth carrying manage that won't scratch your arms. This automobile seat can accommodate infants from five-30 pounds (2.2 and 13.6kg) and up to 30" (76.2cm), and the vehicle base is included.
Infant Trend Flex-Loc Infant Auto Seat - Provence
-1 rated infant car seat -For weights in between five and 30 pounds (2.2 and 13.6kg.) heights of 30 inches or less (76.2cm) -five-point safety harness very easy 1-hand harness adjustment push-button release -four-position push-button height adjustable base with level indicator for suitable installation -Height-adjustable seat back no harness rethreading -A single-hand uncomplicated-access seat release -EPS energy-absorbing foam for superior side impact head protection -Smooth carrying handle, won't scratch your arm -Boot supplying additional warmth and comfort -Flex-Loc refers to the base's flexible (not rigid) latch straps

 

Baby Trend Flex-Loc Infant Car Seat

 

Item Features

• For weights amongst five and 30 pounds (two.2 and 13.6kg.) heights of 30" or much less (76.2cm)
• 5-point safety harness hassle-free 1-hand harness adjustment push-button release
• four-position push-button height adjustable base with level indicator for proper installation
• Height-adjustable seat back no harness rethreading and one-hand simple-access seat release
• EPS power-absorbing foam for superior side influence head protection

Consumer Critiques

I by no means write critiques for merchandise, but I HATE this seat with such a passion, I have to do it.
There are two items I like about this seat. One: it's cute. Two: it snaps in and out of the base pretty easily.
That is it. Two factors that I am confident I can find on another auto seat.
It is so Hard to get my daughter in and out of this seat. I purchased it given that it says it goes up to 30 lbs. What a laugh! My daughter will turn three months in two days (granted she's large for her age) and she has already outgrown this seat. She can barely move when she's in there and every time I pull her out she is just drenched in sweat. I have the straps as loose as they will go and they nonetheless pinch her legs. The snaps are also truly troublesome to do. I feel like I'm hurting her when I put her in this seat! I have purposely not left the property until my husband is property to watch her simply since I did not want to deal with the chore of strapping her into this seat.
Struggling to place her in this right now, my husband remarked that whomever created this seat really should be beaten. At present is the final day we will ever use this seat.
UPDATE:
I gave this seat to a friend to use until her son is old adequate to use the toddler seat she has. Her son was a lot smaller when born than my daughter (he was much less than 6lbs, mine was 9 lbs) and it really is working properly for him. He's now 3 months old, the age my daughter was when I gave up on this seat. Either way, just preserve in mind this seat is Compact! I nevertheless wouldn't recommend it as it doesn't give a lot of expanding area.

We have a tiny automobile and I was afraid we would have to upgrade our car just before the birth of our third youngster. I measured the backseat of my car and got 49.5 inches, divided by 3 to get 16.5 inches, and then consulted the online to obtain out if carseats come that narrow. I found a couple that did, and was rather excited till I saw the prices on them. I did some even more research, identified carseat forums where moms discussed what carseats fit in the backseats of their narrow cars, and a few had been recommending the Chicco Keyfit, but once more, I did not like the value.
So I took my trusty tape measure to my neighborhood Target and identified this Infant Trend seat proper subsequent to that Chicco Keyfit. I measured them and identified that this one is truly narrower (only by half and inch, but that matters in a tiny backseat)! I took the seat down from the shelf and measured the base, too, and it was also very narrow. I fiddled with the adjustable back and am Fairly excited to not have to rethread the straps as my baby grows. I played with the LATCH straps to see if I'd like them. I put the carseat in and out of the base a couple of instances. I rocked the carseat on the floor, played with the sunshade, tested the front button for adjusting the straps, tested the fasteners.
Pros:
1. It really is 16.five inches across!
two. ADJUSTABLE BACK No significantly more strap rethreading as my infant grows!
three. The strap length is quickly adjustable from the front of the carseat. You can adjust the straps as you happen to be putting your baby in, or immediately after baby's currently in, without having to turn the seat all about and do it from the back.
4. As extended as you get the ideal model, it is rear-facing up to THIRTY POUNDS. My two 1/2 year old daughter just hit thirty pounds, and to feel of her nevertheless in an infant seat is laughable, but I do remember how sad I was when my first child outgrew his infant seat and we HAD to switch him to the convertible. Life did get even more tricky b/c I could no longer just carry in his seat when he fell asleep in the vehicle I had to unbuckle him and choose him up, and he typically woke up and I had a difficult time finding him back to sleep or dealing with him being grumpy for the rest of the day. I would a lot rather be able to switch to a convertible seat by selection instead of by necessity.
I did obtain that there were a couple of compact issues I didn't like:
1. The button to release the carseat from the base is in the front of the seat, not the back like I'm utilized to. When the carseat is installed in a automobile, it's a little difficult to get to that button. Whoever created that ought to have never in fact utilised a carseat...
2. The straps only fasten into the buckle when they're place together just ideal. In contrast to most carseats, you can not fasten a single side and then the other. Again, whoever developed this ought to have never ever been a parent! We've had a carseat like this ahead of and I SWORE I would Never ever get a different one, b/c if my son did not want to go into the carseat, it was darn close to impossible to get him buckled. The only reason I did go ahead and invest in this was given that as a significantly more skilled mom, I feel I will be in a position to manage the screaming-infant-does not-want-to-get-in-her-carseat far better this time. Also, I think that if I just loosen the straps a lot, it'll be a lot easier to get the infant buckled, then tighten them to a safe point, and this will need to be fairly rather simple with the hassle-free adjustability of this seat.
3. The cover is not machine-washable. Again, designers did not have young children! It is at least removable having to hand-wash a cover is not actually THAT large a deal when I'm already utilised to cloth diapers. (I machine-wash my kids' diapers, but I do have to scrape the poo out of them soon after they commence solids.)
I hate it when people leave evaluations for products they have not actually utilised but, but this is one I feel I can safely critique. I've applied 3 various infant carseats among my initially two babies so I really feel like I know what I am doing this time :D I also seriously wanted to let everybody know that there is a much less high-priced option to the Chicco Keyfit for narrow backseats!

 

Baby Trend Flex-Loc Infant Car Seat