Quote Originally Posted by Cookiebaker View Post
Wow, I seriously never heard of this kind of thing being a 'controversy'....but then again, I don't know much.
Me neither! I have never heard anything bad about it. It was truly a lifesaver so many times!

I should have said in my first post that I didn't like convertible car seats for little babies. We do have one, and Ty started in it when he was around 10 months.

I am totally with the other moms who loved the infant car seat. I can't imagine life w/o one! Carrying the baby around or using a sling is nice and all, but you will still be put in the position of waking a sleepy baby. And they do NOT like to be disturbed if they are sleeping soundly! I learned that one the hard way

Seriously though, before I had a baby I thought that it was easy peasy to get the baby to sleep, because that's what babies do, right? Wrong, especially after the first few weeks! And when they finally fall asleep, you do NOT want them to wake up and start howling again!! Like Missy said, I found the infant carseat to be worth its weight in gold and was sad when we had to switch to carseat that we couldn't pop out of its base. (Now, we resort to sitting in the car until naptime is over sometimes because she still will wake up if I try to transfer her to her bed).
That was me! I read all the books before having Ty and thought I knew what I was doing. There are tons of methods for getting babies to sleep, right? It would be easy, right? Well, no...Ty was a cluster feeder and didn't sleep for more than an hour or two at a time. Several times we drove him around in the car until he fell asleep, carried him in in the car seat, and let him sleep in the car seat. It's amazing what you will do for sleep when you don't get any!