Baby car seat for use in cabs/Uber

[Mcmcmcmc]

Our (first) baby is due in 4 months. We don’t own a car but we will need a car seat for journeys from hospital to home, and later to and from medical appointments, airport etc, which we generally do by calling an Uber.
Is Isofix worth it/necessary/feasible in this situation? Apparently you need to buy a seat and buy the Isofix base separately, and I imagine it will be a faff carrying all that plus the usual baby bag etc.
Is it best to buy a non-Isofix one, learn how to secure it properly and ask the driver to wait a couple of minutes while we install it...?
If anyone has experience of being in this situation, I’d be grateful for any advice!

All car seats are isofix compatible but you can also just secure them with a seatbelt too

I don’t have a car and just out my car seat in with seatbelts

My dad has the isofix base in his car and we can just click it in when we go in his car

Don't buy an isofix. Get one that straps in using the seat belt (we had a maxi cosi pebble). Takes about a minute secure once you've done it a few times. Easy to lift in and out and can fit on most buggies.

We've never owned a car and it was a doddle to use.

Only takes a minute to put in with seatbelt and usually the drivers know how to do it if you need help (we had no idea when we got the Uber home from hospital with our newborn haha) luckily the driver knew how to put her in haha 😂

We’re in your situation and we’ve never had isofix. Once you’ve done it a few times it’s pretty quick and easy securing the seat using the seatbelt. I kind of thought the isofix base was a semi permanent fixture and not suitable for single journey use anyway, but I might be wrong about that.

I don't think all car seats are isofox compatible. For example we currently have a Joie one for our toddler which has an isofix version and a non isofix version of the same carseat. We have the non-isofix one as we didn't have a car when we bought it.

I wouldn't bother buying one that is isofix compatible as you can't be lugging around an isofix base + car seat + whatever else when you get taxis etc. My recommendation would be to buy a travel system so you can use the carseat on the pram base on trips out where you use a taxi (assuming they are fairly short trips as obviously babies shouldn't be in car seats for long lengths of time). We had a Cosatto travel system so did this. Our DD was tall as a baby though and outgrew the carseat before she was 1. We then moved her into a big Joie one think it might be called the every stage but we hardly ever got taxis from then on because it's huge so you can't carry it about at all. We would tend to use black cabs if we had to get a taxi so we could take DD in it strapped into her buggy instead.

That’s really helpful, thanks everyone!

We only used the car seat once (from the hospital). All other taxi journeys were baby on my lap/on the normal seat. I know it's not recommended but we use the taxi so rarely a car seat is really not needed. Also we are in a city, not driving on motorways or long journeys (if and when).

Doona pram may be handy for you.