Graco SnugRide Click Connect 40.…… Car Seat Review #GracoSafety

Last week at this time I had the plea­sure of attend­ing a #Gra­coSafety blog­ger event for the new Graco Snu­gRide® Click Con­nect™ 40  car seat! It was nice to have a lit­tle time out with Baby Brother and a few other local blog­gers (A big thanks to Kelly from Every­day Child­hood for think­ing of me!). There was a lit­tle set-up on the patio of a cute, local cafe (Tryst for those of you who are Phoenix locals). We had food, social­ized, and learned about the cool fea­tures on the new Graco car seat!

What made this event extra spe­cial is that we all went home with our very own Graco car seat! Just look at all of those boxes lined up! So, for the past few days, Baby Brother has had a new ride to try out!

Graco Snu­gRide® Click Con­nect™ 40 Features:

The Snu­gRide® Click Con­nect™ 40 is the only infant car seat that pro­vides rear-facing pro­tec­tion for babies from birth to 2 years old, as rec­om­mended by the Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Pedi­atrics. The infant car seat grows with babies from four pounds up to 40 pounds, so par­ents can keep their chil­dren rear fac­ing longer, while mak­ing sure they stay com­fort­able as they grow.

• 8-position, adjustable base grows with your child pro­vid­ing the most leg room and a com­fort­able ride for up to two years.
• 5-point, front-adjust harness.
• Adjustable kick-plate to help pro­tect your uphol­stery from scuffs and marks and is adjustable to keep pace with your child’s growth.
• Remov­able new­born head sup­port offers soft cush­ion­ing and sup­ports baby’s head.
• Sim­plySafe Adjust Har­ness Sys­tem with a one-hand har­ness and head­rest adjustment.
• Easy-to-read level indi­ca­tor helps elim­i­nate guess­work from the instal­la­tion process so you can feel con­fi­dent its been done right for new­borns up to 2 years old.

This is really such an inno­v­a­tive car seat, solv­ing a cou­ple of issues that come up for par­ents in the first cou­ple of years. First off, any­one with a big­ger baby typ­i­cally doesn’t get the lux­ury of using an infant car­rier past 6–9 months (since most have around a 20 pound weight limit).  But, with the Graco Click Con­nect 40, you can carry your sleep­ing babe while still inside his/her car seat as long as you can phys­i­cally do it! Con­ceiv­ably, there is no need for another car seat in the first two years!

Also, many par­ents feel the need to switch their tod­dler to for­ward fac­ing as soon as they meet the weight limit, due in part to the fact that their child appears to be cramped for space. But, accord­ing to the Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Pedi­atrics, keep­ing your child rear-facing keeps them FIVE TIMES safer than for­ward fac­ing in the car seat! The new Graco Click Con­nect seat has 8 recline posi­tions to answer this issue, allow­ing tod­dlers to have max­i­mum leg room even while rear-facing.

Hav­ing now got­ten the chance to use the seat a bit, I’m lov­ing the reclin­ing posi­tions. There is no awk­ward, uncom­fort­able head flop­ping. He looks SO comfy in there. And, I wish we would have had the seat when he was his tiny 6 pound new­born self, as the new­born insert looks fab­u­lous! Before get­ting to try it out, I was a bit con­cerned that the seat would be way heav­ier & more awk­ward to carry than what I’ve been used to. But, I’m pleased to say that it isn’t much dif­fer­ent at all. The only other con­cern I had was how well it would fit in the car. It fits fine now, but the way we have the seats con­fig­ured, it can’t go through it’s full 8 posi­tions. For some, this prob­a­bly wouldn’t end up being an issue. But, we’ve got that seat up as far as it will go because Big Brother sits behind it. Then, Mr. Mom Endeav­ors is 6’4″ tall, so the driver’s seat needs to be able to go almost all the way back. So, once Baby Brother needs to go up in posi­tions, we may have to make some adjust­ments to the seat­ing arrange­ments in the car. Other than that issue though, I love every­thing about this seat! For more infor­ma­tion on Graco’s Snu­gRide Click Con­nect 40 & to see the seat in action, visit Graco Safety. Avail­able in two fab­ric choices (moon­struck shown above), the seat retails for $219.99 and is avail­able at Babies R Us.

What feature(s) sound best about the Graco Snu­gRide Click Con­nect 40 car seat to you?

Dis­clo­sure: The Graco Snu­gRide® Click Con­nect™ 40 – the first and only new­born to two-year infant car seat that actu­ally grows with your baby from four pounds all the way up to 40 pounds. The car seat is designed for a par­ent on the go. The infant car seat can be eas­ily removed from the base and used as a car­rier when the infant is small, pro­vid­ing porta­bil­ity and con­ve­nience so you can eas­ily move your infant in and out of the car with­out dis­turb­ing them.

The Amer­i­can Acad­emy of Pedi­atrics recently made the rec­om­men­da­tion to keep all chil­dren in rear-facing car seats until the age of 2. Graco set out to make this prod­uct so par­ents can keep infants rear fac­ing longer while still keep­ing them comfortable.

This is a spon­sored post writ­ten by me on behalf of Graco. The opin­ions and text are all mine.