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- Alright, hi guys, welcome back to my channel.
Today I'm doing a review on our Doona Car Seat.
If you subscribe to my channel
then you will know that I never ever
do product reviews.
This is my first ever one
but it has been requested so many times
from people seeing it in my 'day in the life of'
videos or if you follow me on Instagram
you probably see it in my Instagram story all the time
but basically those of you have been saying,
what is that little buggy
or what is that car seat that you're using.
So I thought I would do a full review on it
because we are loving it.
Although we have three children
I only got this with our last child
which is, he's now five weeks old
so he's been using it for five weeks.
I wish I'd had it for all three of them
because we love it so much.
Basically what the Doona Car Seat is,
it is the first car seat to have
the wheels attached to it at all time
but the wheels are always on it,
they just click up
and then when you want them to come down
you just press a button and they come down.
And you can put it in the car
onto an Isofix base.
Yeah, so it's really, really simple
to just be using it as like a little buggy
and then clip the wheels up
and stick it onto the base
and then off you go.
In the past I've had a couple car seats
where you need to have separate wheels
so it can click onto your buggy wheels
but then you also need separate adapters for that
and sometimes I'd lose like one of the adapters
and it was really stressful
and I always had to open the boot or the trunk,
whereas with this, you never have to go into the boot
you can actually just get it out
and off you go.
So it's ideal for when I do the school run
or you know when you're just nipping
into the petrol station to pay the petrol
and you don't want to leave your baby,
you're like do I leave him, do I not,
what am I going to do.
It's ideal for stuff like that
or when you just nip to the shops
and you don't want to wake your baby
you can just, you know, get it out
and then run in.
I was also thinking that this car seat
would be so good for if you're in a busy city
and you use public transport a lot,
or if you want to get into a taxi
you just click the wheels up,
get in or onto the tube or onto a bus,
it would be really simple for travel.
Your baby can go into this from four pounds
to 35 pounds.
I think that our baby will probably be in this
until he's about 10 months old
or a year.
That's how long my other sons have lasted
in these kind of rear-facing car seats.
Another thing I really like about it
is its extendable handle.
It can be a lower position or at a higher position
and my five year old loves pushing it for me
and it's actually quite helpful.
Someone also asked me
if it gets our car seats muddy
if the wheels are always attached
but you can get the car seat protector with this
but I so far haven't had a problem
because they're kind of upwards.
Always someone asked me if it was lightweight
but I wouldn't say it's lightweight
but I wouldn't say
any of these types of car seats are.
I always find them really heavy
especially when there's a baby in the car seat.
But it doesn't really matter if this one
is lightweight or not
because as soon as you easily get it out of the car
you just put the wheels down
so you don't actually have to carry it.
I also really like when I was looking on-line
there are loads of different colors
that you can get.
I think there was like six or seven
and I was really torn between getting
like the bright blue because I was having a boy
or the green 'cause it was really funky.
In the end I went for a color called Dune
because it matches our car
and it's just like a stone color
so it's quite neutral.
Another feature I really liked about the car seat
are the bags that you can get with it.
I've got a bag that goes on the back
that's called like, The All Day Bag,
you can get quite a lot into.
And then I've also got the bag that goes
on the handles, but doesn't just like hang
on the handles, there are these really good clips
that makes it really sturdy
and it's not gonna go anywhere or fall anywhere
and I can fit everything in there
that I need for the day
because I am breast feeding
I just put nappies, wipes, change of clothes,
some snacks and things like that on there
so it's really, really cute
that it matches and I just think it's really,
it goes onto the handle so easily.
So overall we have loved this car seat
and I would completely, 100%, recommend it to you
especially if you are planning on having
more than one child because I wish I'd had it
for my first son and that it had gone through
all three of them because it is 248 pounds
is the cheapest place that I found it on-line.
You do have to then buy the base as well
but I would recommend that because it makes
life even quicker and easier.
You don't have to deal with any seat belts
or anything and then the accessories
are extra as well.
Like I got the rain cover and the bags
and stuff like that
but I think it's the kind of product
that would retain it's value as well,
not only if you bought it
and then it went through a few children,
then you'd really get your money worth,
but also if I want to resale this on eBay
or something like that
I'd think that that would be very easy to do
because it's such a good product.
Ask me any questions in the comments below
because I feel like I may have missed something.
I really hope you enjoyed this review
and if you want me to do any other product reviews
just let me know.
And thank you so much for watching
and I'll see you very soon, bye.