Is this really made for newborns?
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MAY
9
2008
First impressions were that this car seat had nice fabric and looked comfortable. Installing the car seat base was easy. The base has a system with a ball that needs to end up in the green zone instead of the red zone when you have it tightened down. I didn't have to adjust it up or down for my car, so I don't know how difficult turning that knob was.
Our problems with this arose when we first put our daughter in it. Our daughter was 7 lbs 12.5 ounces on Monday (6 days old), we got this car seat on Wednesday (8 days old), and these pictures were taken Thursday. When she was born, she had a larger than normal head at 34 cm. As you can see from the attached picture, there is a huge amount of space between her head and the sides of the seat's head protection. For comparison sake, I also included a picture of her in her Chicco Keyfit. Her head does not seem as well supported and in the stroller she moves back and forth.
As if the side to side head support wasn't bad enough, this car seat has our little girl's head also leaning forward due to the natural incline of the seat. I tried to get a picture of a side by side comparison of the incline in these car seats. But, the incline in the Peg Perego is significantly more, causing our daughter head to slump forward more often than we would like or are used to with our Chicco Keyfit.
The Peg Perego seems like it may be better for older infants. Those sisde head supports are impressive in look and feel. But, right now our daughter has a good distance til she would hit one side in a sip impact crach. Since the Peg Perego only goes to 22 pounds, I am sure that it should have gotten the average size infant. Our Chicco only goes to 22 pounds also and has removable head and body inserts (included and safety tested) to work better for newborns and older infants.
We bought this car seat primarily for use in our stroller and it works good for that. We had planned to secondarily use it for the second car, but we probably will not do that until our girl grows into it.
Finally, I should mention that the Peg Perego reviewed was the 2007 model. In general, you can find Peg Peregos last year products online at a significant discount over the current year's models.
Peg Perego Primo Viaggio SIP is not recommended by ejbst25
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