Radian or Safe n Sound Meridian?

In terms of age, you should be okay, as I believe most car seats have a life span of ten years (providing they have not been in any accidents). There will be an expiry date on the seat, which you should look for. If it's going to expire in the next couple of years, I'd get a new car seat (simply because you want to get a few good years of use out of it!). If not, and you know it definitely hasn't been in any accidents, it's good to use.

I would personally go with the Radian (I saved up for ages to get one because I was a woman obsessed, so feel free to ignore me ) as it has a higher rear-facing limit. If you're looking at extended rear facing (which I am an advocate of) and you have a large child, the Meridian's 12kg rear facing limit might be reached too quickly.

Also, make sure whichever you choose actually fits in your car! The Radian fits rear-facing in my car but takes up quite a bit of room, so if you have a smaller car you might not be able to fit passengers in the front seat!

I've heard that the Meridian is a good seat too though! I just happen to love my pretty Radian.

Hmm that does sound like quite a difference... And I do love the radian

But dh is keen on the ss meridian.... Dilemma

Check and see what fits your car too before deciding. Some carseats are hard to fit into cars and the radian isn't exactly small.

Radian does fit our car Stacey but he is thinking we can have Bubs in ss till he outgrows it ie next year some time and then buy the radian. X man is pretty tiny only 6.3kgs at nearly 6 months so rf up to 12 kGs should see him well into next year I'm thinking. I still get my radian and we still get a free carseat in the meantime;)

Heck yeah emmi!!! ;) hey off topic but how is the big move to the us progressing?

finally! lol but then hey you'll have to change your waiting to ttc ticker? or will you be flying back and forth till you move over?

yeah im ready for number 2 any time but DH needs more convincing i think, plus my cycle is all up the wazoo...three weekly periods..WTF?

lostAmber wrote: We went with the radian but it is big in that rear facing position. I have put ours in the middle of the back seat and that works well, it's especially good on rainy days as I can get in the car while getting Liv out and not have to bend over getting wet. Also got it in a pretty colour hehe.

I love that about the middle position too - it rains a LOT here!

I'd go with using the free one for a while and then see how you feel when bub approaches the RF limit. I upgraded to a radian when DD was 6 months, but she'd actually still be able to rearface in her SnS now without any issues.

Who knows... by the time you need to upgrade, you might have another baby to put in the Sns

Dh was all set to get sns and yip we were being given it for free but then we went to baby on the move on sat just to take another look at the radian and before I knew what was happening dh was putting a deposit down for the radian and asking me which colour I wanted!!!! So I'm going for the radian.... I know my dh and know that in a years time he ll ask me if we "reAlly " need the radian so I'm secretly pleased we re getting it now!! ;)