How to know which type of car seat will be compatible with a stroller?
Baby Strollers
TrueStory asked:
We just bought a stroller for our baby who is on the way in a few months, and now we’re looking for a car seat. Our stroller is not made for babies under 6 months, so we bought an adapter that will allow us to hook in a car seat to it.
We just bought a stroller for our baby who is on the way in a few months, and now we’re looking for a car seat. Our stroller is not made for babies under 6 months, so we bought an adapter that will allow us to hook in a car seat to it.
Our adapter says it is compatible with “nearly all infant car seats.” Now, though, how do you know which car seats will be compatible with our adapter, and which will not?
Thanks!
Carol
December 19th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Tonya
I think those adapters work with most car seats because it had a bar and the car seat fits like it does on the grocery cart. If your adapter is like that, then any seat should fit. Does the insert with the adapter have brands it works with? Good luck, sorry I wasn’t more help.
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:01 am
Doris
You can get whole travel systems, with the carseat and a stroller that the carseat fits into. When your child is old enough, then they can just start using the stroller without the carseat. You should see if you can return what you have and get one of those. It would probably end up being cheaper too.
December 25th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Dolores
My advice would be to take the stroller with you to the store when you are shopping for car seats. You can take the store sample off the shelf and see how it fits. I know Babies R Us is really good about letting you “play” with the samples.
December 27th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Sue
Personally I would take back that stroller you got and get a travel system like the other person said. the car seat transfers from the car to the stroller until they can just use the stroller alone.
you can also, like the other person said, bring the stroller to babies r us and tell them your problem. theyre usually extremely lenient with fiddling around with floor samples. i had my daughter in pretty much every swing on display that was stable and assembled on at least 4 or 5 different occasions before we decided to buy one. they’ll help you find one.