Choosing The Right Car Seat For Baby

My baby doesn't like to be strapped in car seat. I guess besides it doesn't give her freedom to move around, she also dislikes the colour of her car seat. Due to my lack of experience, as this was the first time buying car seat for first baby, I bought Safety First car seat which was on sale for S$249. I checked around and compared to Maxi-Cosi which costs around $800, and some Japanese brand which has great padding but it costs over 1k. So both hubby and I chose Safety First car seat, which has great value.

This Safety First car seat, as pictured on the right, is the one we bought. The parts are made in China, but the assembly is in the States. It actually meets all the safety requirements we look for when choosing car seat.

•Rear-facing 5-35 lbs.
•Forward-facing 22-40 lbs.
•5-point harness with up-front adjustment
•4 harness heights & 3 buckle locations
•Side Impact Protection
•Removable cup holder can be used on either side
•Infant head support and soft harness covers
•Removable, washable pad
•and most importantly, meets Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (although it doesn't have ISO-fix)

So you can see for yourself, it is actually a very great car seat. Only that it is only available in black/gray colour, which is not a friendly colour for baby, well at least for my baby. She kept looking at the black colour, and moments later she cried and wanted to be carried away.

I guess I should shop around for car seat cover which has bright colours, so my baby won't get scared.

As for you all who are looking for car seats, please do consider the colour when purchasing car seat. Especially if you do not want to be bothered looking around for car seat cover.

High Chair for Baby

Now that Raelene can sit quite steadily, I put her on high chair during meal times. I've been using bouncer chair, but since the chair does not have shoulder straps, and she's getting more and more active everyday, it is no longer safe using the bouncer. She would just try to peek what's underneath the chair. Yeah, she's just that curious.

This high chair is especially bought from Indonesia and hand-carried all the way to Singapore. This particular brand, BabyDoes, is so much praised and used by my friends. Even my friend staying in Singapore would go to Indonesia and carry this high chair to Singapore too.

I asked my relative to buy it for me, and my hubby carried it to Singapore. I didn't check the chair by myself though, just fully trust on friends' recommendations. But, it turned out that this high chair is the new model from BabyDoes, meanwhile the one receiving all the praises is the old model. The tray table of this new model cannot be adjusted as the old model. What a pity. And what a waste of time and efforts of bringing this high chair all the way to Singapore. Oh well, lessons learnt.

But Raelene surely enjoys sitting on her high chair. I guess because it allows her to see more things around her from her high chair.

Quick mommy! Food please!

Well, at least the chair color looks good. Hohoho