Jane Matrix

[johannes]

Anyone got any experience of this.

Does it have to lay flat in the car - or can it be used like a normal newborn seat?

so i couldn't use it as a rear facing car seat from birth?

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I've got one. You can use it as a lie flat or a 'normal' rear seat from birth. Also, it lasts longer than traditional newborn carseats and lasts until 18 months (ish) depending on weight.

My dd is nearly 16 months but I have moved her out - not because she is too long (and she is tall for her age) but because her sister is due next Sunday!

I've also got the Jane Powertrack which the matrix slots onto - I think it has been updated to be the Pro-slalom now?

I personally think the matrix is fab - never needed a moses basket etc.

Its very upright as a rear-facing seat - normal infant carseats are more reclined, and more padded around the baby. I couldn't have put my tiny newborns in it rear-facing - they'd have just flopped over in it.

i want it to fit like a normal car seat rather than laying down so is that rear facing or front facing?

Just reading the other posts I missed due to my slow typing! I moved to a rearseat position because I found it a bit of a faff fixing the lie flat position - I think this is more to do with the fact that my car was small.

I now have a Picasso - which has loads of legroom etc - dd2 will probably stay in the lieflat position longer especially as I won't be slotting it onto the Powertrack chassis as I have had to buy a double pushchair because of the ages of my dd's (Phil and Ted E3 Explorer if you are interested) so the matrix will be staying in the car.

as a normal car seat it fits rear facing.

does not fit front facing at all

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You can't make it forward facing - rearfacing or lieing flat are the only options.

I like the idea that whe nout and about baby can be flat and when in the car it can be reclined as i have read really really bad reports on lie flat car seats

i don't have room in the car for a carrycot and a pushchair - this way the carrycot is turned into the carseat and the pushchair can fit in the boot and i get all the options i want

The Jane matrix was tested in the conventional seat position NOT the lie flat

My aunt and Uncle use the matrix lie flat car seat and in very car theyve used it in i think it is VERY dangerouse

it can tip up 45degrees easily and ber in mind baby is only held in by a bit of velcro round their tummy!

You couldnt pay me to drive a child around in that car seat, and nor will i EVER let my own use it. (I know i'll be offered it but will tactfulyl say no thank you!)

I won't be using it in the lie flat position only the reclined position

Johannes - its not easy to switch from lie-flat to upright positions. In the upright position you're using a 3-point harness. When it is flat there is a thin mattress-pad that goes under the baby, and a waist strap. You wouldn't want to get the baby out and switch it around every time you took the seat in and out of the car.

Oh, and Jane use the same tests as Which/the AA to test their seats. Before they had their own test centre, they used an independent one in Germany that also did the Euro/Ncap tests. So it has been tested in the lie-flat position.

But if you don't want to then I agree with Irishbird - get a normal seat and a pram with a carrycot.

Personally I'm trying to work out whether its worth buying a bigger car for baby number 3, just so I can use the Matrix seat again.

can it not layfit with harness on?

The instructions say not. I guess it doesn't support them in the right way.