Safety 1st Jive

This seat is a great combination of long-lasting and affordable! It retails for $110, but you can often find the Jive (or its nearly-identical sister seat, the Cosco Mightyfit LX) for about $80. It’s a bit more expensive than the Cosco Scenera Next, but lasts several years longer — most kids can use this seat from around six months old until they’re five or six. That’s a worthwhile investment if you ask us!

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The Safety 1st Jive car seat is very lightweight, so if your child has outgrown their infant seat and you want something longer lasting than the Cosco Scenera Next, this may be a great option for you! You can easily attach it to a stroller handle with a bungee cord.

After your child has outgrown the infant seat, the Safety 1st Jive may be a great next step for you if you fly frequently. It’s lightweight at just 10 pounds, and it’s fairly narrow as well, so it works on any plane. It’s a fan favorite of our Wheels Up private Facebook group members and our team member Sandy’s favorite travel seat!

This seat is 18″ wide, so it wouldn’t be our first choice when trying to fit 3 car seats in one row of a vehicle. It may work if the other 2 seats in the 3 across configuration are more narrow than this one or if it’s a vehicle with a wide back seat.

The lowest harness slot on the Safety 1st Jive is 9″ tall. Most newborns have a torso height that is 7″ or less. This means that the harness will be 2+ inches above their shoulders, which will not be an acceptable fit since the harness needs to be coming from at or below the shoulder. We know this seat has a 5lb weight minimum on paper, so it’s really frustrating that the reality of the harness fit doesn’t match that. Unfortunately, it’s not super uncommon to see this problem with convertible car seats, but it’s extra dramatic in this case. The Jive is best for families who will use an infant car seat for their baby’s first several months before they upgrade to a convertible car seat.

The Safety 1st Jive doesn’t have any fancy features to make installation easier, but that’s okay if you know this installation technique! Whether you’re installing with lower anchors or the vehicle seatbelt, pull the car seat cover up off one of the sides and tighten from inside the belt path. With the inside-out trick, this car seat can be securely installed in no time!

The more reclined line is for kids who are under 22 lbs or cannot sit unassisted. This line must be level with the ground until the child is both 22lbs and is able to sit unassisted. Once both of those criteria are met, the car seat can be installed at a recline that is anywhere between the 2 recline lines. Once you have the seat in this more upright position, it’s very compact.