Car Seats Reviews

Infant, convertible, and all-in-one car seats — picked for safety features, ease of install, and how long they grow with your child.

• Car Seats

  Doona Car Seat & Stroller

  The Doona solves the problem every new parent discovers in week one: the transfer. It's a rear-facing infant seat (4–30 lbs) whose wheels fold down at the click of a button, turning the car seat into a stroller without unbuckling — or waking — your baby. It's tested and certified as a car seat, a stroller, and an infant carrier all at once, and the box includes the LATCH base, infant insert, and a vehicle seat protector.

• Car Seats

  Graco Extend2Fit Convertible Car Seat

  The Extend2Fit's party trick is its 4-position extension panel, which adds up to 5 inches of legroom so your child can ride rear-facing — the safer orientation — all the way to 50 lbs. Add the no-rethread Simply Safe Adjust harness and one-second InRight LATCH install, and it's the seat I point friends to when they want maximum rear-facing time without a premium outlay.

• Car Seats

  Chicco KeyFit 35 ClearTex Infant Car Seat

  There's no wrong door to enter through. Plenty of families start with an infant seat for the click-out convenience and switch to a convertible later; plenty of others go straight to a convertible or all-in-one from day one and never look back. The one rule I'd treat as non-negotiable: keep your child rear-facing as long as their seat's limits allow — it's the best-protected orientation, and it's exactly why seats like the Extend2Fit and EXEC next are engineered to stretch that phase.