Anyone have a Maxi Cosi Mico infant car seat?

[CloudBee]

The Amazon reviews are outstanding. It's sold under two listings based on color choices. One listing has it rated at a solid 5 across the board by customers, and the other just shy of 5 stars.

Here's the link with the largest number of reviewers: www.amazon.com/Maxi-Cosi-Mico-Infant-Total-Black/dp/B004GJYU48/ref=br_it_dp_o_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2T5007IXDPAUB&coliid=I2SJHAP8464QN7

I researched it on the Consumer Reports website a few months ago and the ratings were great. It's also light, and trim, not bulky or very wide.

I hated infant carriers while nannying and when watching my sister's kids, so I wanted to get one that would be easy to carry if I choose to snap it out of the base if the baby is sleeping.

Does anyone have this seat? Can you give me your experiences?

Also - I think we should get 2 seats and 2 bases. I will be dropping the baby off at DC and my husband picking up. Even if the center will store the seat, I don't want one of us to forget to ever leave it, and have the other parent stuck. Is that smart, or over-kill?

I think we'll get one black and one turquoise.

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[MamaMaui24]

Two infant seats = overkill. We left the seat at DC until we switched to two convertible seats. We carried DS into DC in his seat so it was impossible to forget to leave the seat.

now:
1 seat
2 bases

then eventually:
2 convertibles

[water*drop]

Dec 5, 2012 12:19:48 GMT -5 CloudBee said:

Also - I think we should get 2 seats and 2 bases. I will be dropping the baby off at DC and my husband picking up. Even if the center will store the seat, I don't want one of us to forget to ever leave it, and have the other parent stuck. Is that smart, or over-kill?

I don't know anything about this seat, but getting 2 is overkill. DD's carseat stays with her, no matter what. If she's in the house, it's in the house. If she's at daycare, it's at daycare. We carry her into/out of daycare/the house in the carseat, so it'd be pretty hard to forget to leave it with her since we'd have to carry the empty carseat back out to the car.

I also leave the carseat at daycare on the days that I do both drop off and pickup. If somebody else needed to pick her up in an emergency or something, I want them to have a carseat available.

[catbus]

Yep, we have it and love it. Several moms in my parenting group have commented that they wish they had known about it when they were seat shopping. It's lighter and appears more comfortable for the baby than the Chicco and Graco seats everyone buys (the fabric is much more breathable), plus it's obviously better looking. It is a bit longer front-to-back than its competitors, so you may want to make sure it fits in your car correctly.
Edit: I know one complaint people have about this seat is the "low" weight limit (22 pounds). But from what I've heard, most babies are at least 8ish months when they hit that weight, and often have outgrown an infant seat's height limit by then, so this wasn't a concern for us.

[dcrunnergirl]

I've heard good things about it. Does it fit in whatever Snap-n-Go stroller you're getting (if you're getting one, which I highly recommend)?

[bronxgirl]

1 seat, 2 bases.

[mrssandro]

Dec 5, 2012 12:25:13 GMT -5 MamaMaui24 said:

Two infant seats = overkill. We left the seat at DC until we switched to two convertible seats. We carried DS into DC in his seat so it was impossible to forget to leave the seat.

now:
1 seat
2 bases

then eventually:
2 convertibles

Totally agree. You don't need two infant seats.

100% of the time you will not want to take baby out of the infant seat. Usually DD was sleeping or chilling in her seat during drop off.

[catbus]

We got the UppaBaby Vista stroller with a snap-on adapter for this seat, which has worked great for us. The Mico is directly compatible with Quinny strollers, no adapter needed.

[CloudBee]

Awesome, we will get 1 black then. I'm so happy I asked. Having one at DC is smart for emergency pickup. I hadn't thought about that.

[fryjack2]

I actually have 2 of them. Twins LOVE them. They are so light and easy to use.

[catbus]

Dec 5, 2012 13:10:57 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

I actually have 2 of them. Twins LOVE them. They are so light and easy to use.

You're not in Seattle, are you? I saw a mom with twins in Micos a couple months back.

[frlcb]

We have the black one, and used it for dd and loved it. It is light, small, and easy to use. We stopped using it before she hit 22 lbs so the low weight limit didn't bother me at all.

[Deleted]

1 seat, 2 bases and love it. We also have the quinny buzz stroller to go wirh it and love that too.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Lurker here.
We have it. Love it.
I do think maxi cosi just came out with a new infant seat too.

[bunnymendelbaum]

Yep, the prezi

www.maxi-cosi.com/us-en/products/car-seats/infant/prezi-infant-car-seat.aspx

[Mushe]

The one vs. two seat thing is already answered, but wanted to chime in that I miss the infant seat for dropoff and pickup because we have to take our shoes off to enter the room. Now that we're using convertibles, we have to put him on the bench used for shoe removal, and he just wants to crawl away.

[Deleted]

This is the seat i registered for. I have 2 sets of friends who have it and loved it. One gave us their quinny stroller so the maxi cosi car seat won for us.

[darnkatz]

I'm pretty sure we're getting one to use with a Quinny Zapp Xtra.

[carolinagirl831]

I was wondering about this too, I registered for the Chico keyfit but I am wondering if I should change it. The lighter weight is do appealing. I wonder if its easy to install?

[CloudBee]

The reviews say that it's easy to snap on/off the base.

I read all about the Prezi tonight, and think the Cosi Mico is my favorite of the two. I may try to see the Prezi in person to decide.

[CloudBee]

Which Quinny, Jenny? I see a lot of them on Amazon. I do want the ability to have my kiddo face me.

[CloudBee]

Which Quinny do you have, Jenny?

[CloudBee]

Awesome, thanks! Off to check it out online.

[Deleted]

We have the quinny zapp. As I said it was handed down from my friends who have 2 kids and loved it. I havent used it yet but its super lightweight.

[fryjack2]

Dec 5, 2012 13:20:31 GMT -5 catbus said:

Dec 5, 2012 13:10:57 GMT -5 fryjack2 said:

I actually have 2 of them. Twins LOVE them. They are so light and easy to use.

You're not in Seattle, are you? I saw a mom with twins in Micos a couple months back.

Nope. Boston

[chickens987]

I know I'm really late to this, but we have the Mico and just got the Mila stroller - we have a Quinny Moodd, but are traveling to europe this Christmas and need to take the carseat with us. The MC Mila is an umbrella stroller which I know we will likely want later anyways, but you can also remove the seat and canopy and use it as a snap and go (which I usually dislike, since they're ugly and so low - this one holds the carseat nice and high). It will also fit better in the back of the car when we have the dogs and luggage.