This Chicco KeyFit 30 Infant Car Seat review blog post is in sponsored by Chicco Canada. All opinions are 100% my own.
Car seats aren’t made how they used to be – people say that all the time when they see my baby (Adeline) in her Chicco KeyFit 30 Infant Car Seat! Car seats used to be the bare minimum in safety, thankfully that has completed changed!
You can see the Chicco car seat is made to protect her. The thickly-padded newborn insert gives her extra head support and neck support, because little infant necks are not the strongest! The car seat shell is lined with energy absorbing foam, and one-pull harness makes tightening and loosening quick and easy.
Trust me, you want to find a car seat with easy straps and buckles because it is the most frustrating thing when you’re wrestling car seat straps!
She is snug as a bug when strapped in!
Why do I love the Chicco KeyFit 30 infant car seat?
Overall it’s a superb infant car seat! The Chicco KeyFit 30 car seat has since grown with my newborn to her being 12 months old, and has lots of room to continue to be rear-facing.
The car seat shell and car seat straps are easy to clean, so if your baby spits up a lot you can conveniently clean your car seat!
Many new parents and grandparents do not know how to properly instal a baby into a car seat, which makes perfect sense if you’ve never needed to do it or if you haven’t done it in along time!
When your baby is installed in their car seat, ask yourself:
- is the chest clip properly closed and is it at arm pit/nipple height?
- is the harness tight on your baby?
- are the harness straps just at or below your baby’s shoulders?
The number one concern for babies in car seats is that the harness is not tight enough – often you hear someone say that looks too tight on them, but a tight harness will save your baby’s life.
To check the tightness attempt to pinch the webbing of the harness with the thumb and forefinger. If you are unable to pinch the harness, then it is sufficiently tight.
Some of the reasons we chose the Chicco KeyFit 30 Car Seat:
- accommodates babies 4 lbs to 30 lbs to sit rear-facing (Woah! I don’t think Abigail, my 2 year old, weighs 30 lbs yet…).
- easily installed into your car – the first car seat we ever owned has us inspecting the installation process of every future potential car seat. If it’s not easy to instal and uninstall it’s not for us, we like to keep our cool when installing car seats.
- neutral colour choice – it’s chic, easy to clean, and gender neutral.
You can find the Chicco KeyFit 30 Car Seat at Toys R Us.
