A very common question for parents who begin to plan the acquisition of basic baby products is that if the stroller or trio they are going to buy comes with a chair included, why do they have to buy a stroller later. The answer may seem simple but there are many factors that must be taken into account. In this post we are going to explain the reasons for switching to the light chair.
As you know, the trio stroller takes up a large part of the budget for how many things a baby needs, and therefore the better the choice, the more you will pay for it, since the more use you will give it. It must be recognized that in most cases, leaving the stroller to transfer the baby to the lightweight chair tends to obey more practical criteria than criteria related to comfort or size.
The first reason for switching from a car seat to a light chair is the difference in weight: the chassis of a car is much heavier on average than the chassis of a light chair, as its name indicates. The chassis of a car is designed to support four different structures and therefore its design is more complex: it has to support the weight of a horizontal structure such as the carrycot, which also due to the technical characteristics (mattress, textiles, hood with extendable structure) is not usually very light; It must also be designed to support two diagonal structures, which are the two directions in which, in general, the hammock-chair of the car is placed; and a last structure that supports is the hemispherical structure of the cuckoo, egg or maxi-cosi. This versatility to support different types of structures means that the overall weight of car seats is greater than that of so-called light seats. A light chair is in short a chassis with a more or less padded textile of smaller dimensions and weight.
A second reason that leads parents to buy the lightweight chair to replace the car seat is the size when folded. It is important not to forget that the most important thing is the child's comfort, but unfortunately many parents must condition the choice of the chair to factors external to the child themselves, such as the fact that they have to climb stairs with the chair because the house lacks an elevator, or simply because another type of chair, like the one they had from the car, does not fit in the trunk of the car or if it does, the space left free is so small that the possibility of traveling must be forgotten. Thinking that the chair folds well, compactly and easily, many parents have no choice but to buy a lightweight chair to leave the car seat behind. Car seats, being made up of two pieces, chassis and hammock, in general, with exceptions such as those we show you about the Asalvo Genius trio chair, fold into two parts, separately, with the consequent decrease in free space in the trunk.
There are also parents who choose to buy a lightweight seat even though the child fits well in the car seat because they are thinking about expanding their family. In this way, less use is given to the chassis, which is left reserved and in better condition for when the little brother or sister has to use the carrycot in the more or less near future.
Nowadays, most car seats can be placed in both directions, facing forward, in the direction of travel, or facing in the opposite direction, that is, rear-facing. On the other hand, the vast majority of lightweight chairs look only forward. This can be a problem for some parents, because they still want the baby to face them. In any case, if the transition from the carrycot to the chair has not been done hastily, we would be at a point in the child's development when they already feel interest in what surrounds them, and looking ahead they are presented with a huge world yet to be discovered.
Prolonging the use of the car seat or switching to a lightweight seat is a decision that you must make taking into account all of the above: carefully analyze your personal circumstances (type of car, access characteristics to your home, type of terrain in which you usually move, if in addition to you, other family members use the seat...). This decision-making ultimately has more than one beneficiary: your baby and you.
