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Orbit Baby Travel System

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Baby Trend Travel System – Mesa

We have been using this system for 4 months now. After using the stroller for 2 months, the wheel completely broke off! The “single hand fold” is a horrible design and doesn’t work! We thought the product was defective, but it is the design that stinks. The carseat is a huge pain. The handle is super difficult to fold down and the way you buckle the straps in is again a bad design. Don’t waste your money or time on this system. We have already had to replace it. Even though the carseat is rated to 22 lbs, my son who is 18 lbs does not fit in the straps any more and there is no room to make it bigger. Overall, it looks nice, but poor designs all around.

We bought this travel system at Target and we are very disappointed with the product. The stroller is the biggest problem we have. The latch where you pull in to fold the stroller down (to put into the car) well it’s very hard to squeeze in and it will sometimes not even budge. It’s even hard for my husband who actually does have muscle. We’ve exchanged 2 times with this product thinking it was a defect, but come to find out it’s the product/brand itself. As the other review stated she gave this a star only because there was no option not to give it a star. Same with mine, there is no option to not give it at least one star. Our son was born 2/4/09 and we have been using the car seat portion almost daily since. The stroller we use only about weekly. It is rather large even when it folds up, but that would be the only con I can think of at this point. Granted, we’ve only used it for 9 weeks now.

The car seat itself is awesome. It uses the “Latch” system which all newer vehicles (starting in 2001 or 2002) have. This allows the base to just snap into hooks in your back seat, then the infant carrier clicks into the base. The infant carrier has a triangle shaped handle which makes it easier to carry it at many different angles. Our son was pretty little (5lbs 13oz) when we came home from the hospital so we did buy an infant head rest, but now that he’s bigger it is probably time to take it out and just adjust the built-in adjustable headrest.

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