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Graco: SnugRide Infant Car Seat - Metropolitan
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| Price: | $299.99 |
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Ships from and sold by Toys & Juvenile Furniture Inc.
Product Description
For safety and ease of use, SnugRide is a favorite infant car seat among parents. Equipped with a 5-point harness, an ergonomic carrying handle, a stay-in-car base, a canopy, and an infant head rest for added comfort and support, this SnugRide infant car seat will serve you and your baby well, from the time you bring your little one home till the day he or she reaches 20 pounds and is ready to move up to a Graco convertible car seat.
This model SnugRide infant car seat also has GracoPedic foam for luxurious comfort, an all-weather boot with blanket for added warmth, and a double infant head support with comfy harness covers. Plus, the harness straps adjust at the front, which makes getting your baby in and out of the car seat even easier. And, when your baby is snug in their SnugRide, you can keep an eye on your little one through the canopy's peek-a-boo window. Removable padding is machine washable.
The rear-facing SnugRide infant car seat is for babies up to 20 pounds and 26 inches long. LATCH equipped for easy installation.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #4733 in Baby Product
- Color: color
- Brand: Graco
- Dimensions: 26.50" h x 17.50" w x 15.00" l, 16.94 pounds
Features
- Top rated car seat by major consumer organizations!
- Padded with GracoPedic luxury foam, which is removable and washable!
- Unbeatable infant head support
- LATCH equipped for easy and secure installation
- Ergonomic, 4 position adjustable handle
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Product Description
From the moment you bring your new baby home from the hospital, you want to be sure that she'll be as safe as possible. Laws now require that babies from birth to age one be seated in a rear-facing car seat. The Graco SnugRide Infant Car Seat offers a cost-effective, versatile, and safe choice. This rear-facing infant car seat doubles as an infant carrier and is designed for babies from 5 to 22 pounds in weight, up to 29 inches in height.
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 With EPS energy-absorbing foam, the SnugRide provides extra protection for baby. View larger. |
The SnugRide comes with a stay-in-car base, allowing the car seat to be quickly, conveniently installed and removed to double as an easy-to-use infant carrier. The stay-in-car base can be easily, securely installed using the car's seat belt or, if you have a newer-model vehicle, the LATCH system.
An easy-to-read level indicator helps make sure that the seat is installed correctly. Once the base is installed, simply snap the car seat into the base, and remove it with the push of a button to use it as a carrier. A sturdy, ergonomic handle makes it easy and safe to carry the carrier on your arm, and it makes transporting your fragile newborn and sleeping older infants all the easier. The SnugRide is also compatible with many Graco strollers; simply snap the seat out of your vehicle, into your stroller, and go.
Designed for Safety
With the SnugRide, you can be sure that your baby is riding in safe, protected comfort. The five-point harness, equipped with soft harness covers for extra comfort, keeps her secure, as does the specially designed, removable infant head and neck support, which is built in compatibility with the seat's safety design. EPS energy-absorbing foam adds extra protection, and a 180-degree adjustable canopy shields baby from sun and glare. Parents will especially appreciate that the removable seat cushion is machine washable.
Customer Reviews
New design is horrible!
I registered for and received this car seat in the Chelsea pattern when my triplets were born. We had two hand-me-downs (both Graco SnugRide seats, one from a friend which was 6 months old and one our oldest daughter used as a baby which was 18 months old) and only needed one new seat. I liked the cute pink pattern of this seat and assumed that the mechanics and quality were as good as the one I was used to using with my oldest. Assuming is where I went wrong.
The quality of this seat went way down in the 18 months since I bought my original: the handle is now open in the back where it used to be solid; the grippy area on the handle is 1/3 the size it used to be; the handle up and down operation is rough, not fluid or easy. The mechanical ease of use took a complete 180 too: the shoulder belt straps move independently of each other and the mechanism used to secure the straps are a very difficult tooth type that you can't just tug to adjust - they need to be pulled loose on one side of the buckle and then tightened on the other side, similar to a bra strap; there is no longer a single strap in the front to pull the shoulder straps tight - it has to be done in the back of the seat where you have to mess around with that stupid metal buckle again... every time you take your baby out or put her back in and need to adjust the straps!
Bottom line: The overall feel of this seat is cheap. Things are hard enough with a newborn without having to do extra work to make them safe. This seat is a burden and I would never recommend it.
So good so far
I've only used the car seat for 2 1/2 weeks, but so far I like it! It is by far the cutest one I could find, and I love the easily accessible tightening strap.
The only things I don't love are: it seems like the seat base is able to move forward and back too much; the fabric is really stiff; and there is no elastic strap to keep the fabric cover in place like most other models have. It's not a problem yet but I'm sure it will be.
In short, I like the seat overall and even with the negatives, I would still probably have bought it.
CBD K's Mom
I registered for the graco quatro travel system and this car seat. It is durable and once you break out the directions and practice using it before you get to the hospital it makes like pretty easy. My daughter is now 4 months old and we love the car seat. She is just getting a little heavy to lug around at 13lb+the 8 plus pounds of car seat. It can be used with or without the base so I can leave her with my parents in it and they can use it in their car without the base and I can use it in mine with it. I'm not sure if all models have that feature, but mine does and that was important to me. I never really used it by attaching it to the stroller very often, I found strolling that way was annoying so I laid her in the stroller as a newborn-2+ months. She got great head control early so we were able to put up the recline on the stroller and she was happy to just see the world in her stroller. With the car seat attached to the stroller she could only look back at mom or dad and that got old quick! Good luck! This car seat does the job and is comfortable with good padding!
