Instagram: The Weight of Infant Car Seats

Today, we provided a test of infant car seats and their true weight. Here are six popular car seats.

The Bugaboo Turtle by Nuna car seat enables you to transition smoothly and seamlessly from car to stroller without waking anyone up. Designed in collaboration with premium car seat brand Nuna, combined with the Bugaboo Turtle by Nuna car seat base, it offers you a complete travel system stroller, making your life easier from day one. Featuring a lightweight shell and matching adapters with an easy click-in system, the Bugaboo Turtle by Nuna car seat is designed for seamless integration with your Bugaboo Fox or Lynx. It also features a lightweight outer shell and carry handle perfect for keeping your baby safe and secure and offer you top comfort while carrying it. With adjustable head support, a signature Bugaboo canopy with mesh peekaboo and a UPF 50+, the Bugaboo Turtle by Nuna car seat stroller system will keep your child comfortable whether you’re on the road or out for a stroll. The washable merino wool insert provides incredible climate control. The Bugaboo Turtle by Nuna car seat base is very easy to place in your car—it only takes a few seconds to install it. The stability load leg was designed to minimize any impact force transferred to your baby and will ensure a secure ride all the way. Weighing in at a total 11.4 pounds, this car seat makes moving around with baby an easy task.

Doona allows you to move from car seat to stroller in seconds. The sleek and stylish design allows you to maneuver with ease, all without disturbing your sleeping child. Whether you are hopping in a car, traveling by bus or walking up the stairs, the Doona promises a smooth ride and easy maneuvering from stroller to car seat at all times.The latest collection makes a bold and on-trend statement with six vivid colors, an updated all-black inner seat cover and a sleek charcoal aluminum frame. The Doona includes one simple motion operation that promises you go from Car Seat to Stroller in seconds. The Doona also includes a five-point harness, an adjustable handlebar that also acts as an anti-rebound bar inside the car. The Doona offers new stretch material canopy in fashion colors and removable and washable textiles. The materials are new and improved and baby-safe. The breathable textiles and inner foams provide support and comfort for baby at all times and offer the highest safety and quality standards. The Doona is TUV and FAA aircraft approved for travel, and suitable for infants from 4 lbs to 35 lbs. The Doona is rear-facing only, and weighs 17.6 pounds in total.

The Cybex Cloud Q with SensorSafe infant car seat integrates important safety technology into the chest clip of the harness to alert when unsafe situations arise. The alerts are provided through a vehicle receiver and the parent or guardian’s smartphone to ensure safety for children in a range of unsafe situations. Additionally, the Cybex Cloud Q with SensorSafe offers a full recline position outside of the car, load leg base and patented Side-impact Protection. This innovative travel system is complemented by a telescopic linear side-impact protection and an XXL sun protection with UVP50+. The 11-position height-adjustable headrest of the infant car seat simultaneously changes the harness length and sitting angle. As a result, the infant car seat adapts to the child. The CYBEX Cloud Q includes ergonomic full-recline position outside the car, a removable newborn inlay for premature and newborn babies, an 11-position height-adjustable headrest with integrated harness guides, a Telescopic Linear Side-impact Protection (L.S.P. System). The CYBEX Cloud Q includes integrated XXL foldaway sun canopy and is travel system compatible with strollers from CYBEX, gb and other selected brands. It includes an European belt routing for safe installation without a base. The CYBEX Cloud Q weighs in at 14.2 pounds, and is compatible with children from 4lbs+ up to 35 lbs and from newborn up to 18 months.

The Clek Liing is designed with best-in-class safety features. With an industry leading expiration of 9-years and 1+2 year warranty, you can expect an easy installation, in every position, year after year, after year. Clek Liing includes innovative, best-in-class safety features like a metal load leg, which prevents rotation and absorbs energy in a collision, reducing crash forces by up to 40%. That's why Liing offers up to 7 recline positions and a trusty bubble indicator to let you know EXACTLY where your baby needs to be to ensure that proper angle. You don’t have to worry about accounting for the roadway or the vehicle seat as they are typically tilted in some way. Best of all, the recline is adjustable while the base is installed, which makes it easy to find the perfect angle. Combined with the  newborn body support system, you and your baby can ride right, worry-free. Weighing in at 10.8, the Liing provides great support for the baby.

The UPPAbaby Mesa is so intuitive that it maximizes every ease and works hard to minimize error, which allows parents to move forward with confidence and security. The Mesa is the only infant car seat that utilizes a tightness indicator and self-retracting latch connectors. This provides fast, accurate, and easy installation that takes the worrying and guesswork out of moving baby safely from point A to point B. An indicator window changes from red to green for visual confirmation the base has been installed correctly every time. This is one contributing factor for Mesa’s 5-star rating. The UPPAbaby Mesa car seat comes with The Auto-retracting LATCH, unlike traditional latch connectors, the Mesa's system tightens easily, ensuring that it minimizes any installation errors. It also included a streamlined, low-profile base with a finished bottom to prevent damage to vehicle seats. The level indicators on both sides of the base and multiple foot positions allow for easy and effective leveling. The Mesa’s headrest is reinforced with EPP foam providing added protection for baby. The integrated design keeps an infant’s head stationary during a side impact collision. Mesa’s unique no-rethread, five-point harness adjusts with the headrest, eliminating the need to take the harness system apart as baby grows and providing reassurance the harness is installed correctly each time. The Mesa also provides an integrated and extendable canopy that provides baby with extra protection outside and conveniently tucks away when not in use. Through its use of Merino wool, the Henry and Jordan Mesa fashions are the first car seats to pass federal safety standards without the use of fire retardant chemicals. Included with added safety, the Merino wool keeps baby cool on hot days and warm on cool days. The included infant insert and adjustable harness and crotch strap settings create a safer riding position for preemies and small newborns. Perfect for babies 4 pounds and up! The Mesa paired with the UPPAbaby Vista stroller delivers a Performance Travel System that is the ultimate in portability and safety. A quick press of the button on the top of the carrier handle releases it from the stroller. The Mesa can be positioned to face you while strolling or pull up to a table without the handlebar in the way. Weighing in at 10.4 pounds, the UPPAbaby Mesa promises to keep the baby secure.

The Nuna Pipa Lite is tough, yet lightweight while consistently promising to be protective and portable. The new PIPA lite weighs in less than every infant car seat available - at 5.3 pounds (does not include canopy or insert). The PIPA lite includes Aeroflex™ foam and True lock™ base installation, all while exceeding American safety standards. From the fabric to the foam and beyond, each element is smartly sourced to be both flame resistant and contain no added fire retardant chemicals.The Pipa Lite includes the True lock base installation that tightly and securely locks into any car. It also includes integrated harness holders with a luxe leatherette carry handle. The canopy is removable, provides full coverage with its UPF 50+ canopy, and includes an easy flip out eyeshade. From fabric to foam and beyond, each element is smartly sourced to be both flame resistant and contain no added fire retardant chemicals that could be touching the baby. The PIPA lite promises to be both incredibly portable and seriously protective. This support and protection starts with the materials. The Aeroflex foam is lightweight, resilient, and minimizes force transferred to baby by absorbing and diffusing energy. The Nuna PIPA lite is carefully created with high performance materials including aerospace aluminum and featherweight fabrics. Its steel reinforced True lock base installation makes the setup simple and incredibly safe. The “crumple zone” within the stability leg absorbs impact and minimizes force to baby. Weighing in at a total of 6.6 pounds, the PIPA Lite promises to be durable and lightweight.

Available at all our Bambi Baby stores. See you soon!