Good in theory, but poor in practice (Jané Matrix Car Seat)

Member Name: Kathryn

Product:	Jané Matrix Car Seat
Date:	23/04/07 (1827 review reads)
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Advantages: Baby can lie flat, and can use as a pram

Disadvantages: Too heavy, not good quality, too difficult to connect to pram chassis and expensive

My husband and I bought a Carerra travel system with the Matrix car seat for our first baby and we really regretted it. The Matrix sounded like a good idea in practice, like many of the other reviewers we liked the idea that it lay flat, which is healthier for newborns, but in reality it was not as practical as a normal car seat. Firstly, it was far too heavy and as our son gained weight it became too difficult to lift the combined weight of him and the Matrix, so I stopped using it when he was 5 months old. Also, the quality was poor, and the catches for securing it in the car in lie-flat mode broke twice! Also, one of the connectors for securing it to the Carerra base also broke, and even before that it was too fiddly to connect to the chassis - one click it is not!

Summary: Buy a normal car seat and get a pushchair with a pram mode