yes, my child will ride RF for as long as possible.
36%
[ 7 ]
no, i turned/will turn my child once they hit 20 lbs & 1 year.
57%
[ 11 ]
no, i turned/will turn my child before 20 lbs and/or 1 year.
5%
[ 1 ]
Total Votes : 19
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Bridget
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car seat poll Posted: 02-23-08 20:16pm
studies show that the longer a child rides
rear-facing, the safer they are.
In the
US, motor vehicle crashes are the number
one cause of death for children. The
extra protection offered by rear-facing
seats is something that parents should
take advantage of as long as
possible.
Last edited by Bridget on 02-24-08 09:14am; edited 4 times in total
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Bridget
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Posted: 02-23-08 20:20pm
finn's car seat has a RF limit of 33lbs.
he's about 27lbs now at 16 months old and
still rear-facing quite comfortably.
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hopefulmjz
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Posted: 02-23-08 20:33pm
I'm in the second category. But after
reading more on it, baby #2 (when the time
comes) will be rear facing well past a
year and 20lbs.
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Idony
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Posted: 02-23-08 20:45pm
i WAS planning on turning val on her first
bday (considering she already 21 lbs at
not quite 9 months) but then my
friend/neighbor showed me something on it
and it compeltly changed my mind, i think
vals car seat has a 35 lb weight limit for
rf so im gonna keep her rf until them (my
guess is that will be sometime around
18-24 months)
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Mommy35
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Posted: 02-24-08 10:10am
Jaylon is rear facing and will be until it
is safe to turn him around. I think his
seat says to turn him around at 22 pounds,
which he is, or very close to. He's
comfortable in my car rear facing because
it has 4 doors and a good size back seat
(08 Honda Civic). In Mike's car (02 Chevy
Cavilier) his legs touch the back seat and
Mike is all freaked out by it.
Any words of advice to put him at ease?
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jessesgirl
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Posted: 02-24-08 13:35pm
I turned Ava at 1 year and 24 or so lbs.
I really don't have a good reason for
doing it, so I'm not explaining.
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OctoberBaby06
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Posted: 02-24-08 14:58pm
I turned Kaylee at 1 year & she was
20lbs I think. The car we had at the time
was very small inside so the bigger she
got the more uncomfortable it was (More
for me I think to see her like that.. Legs
bent up & all). If we had this Jeep
back then she would have been rear facing
longer since there's a lot more room in
it, our next baby will be that's for sure.
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Posted: 02-24-08 15:00pm
I HATE that my sil has turned my baby
niece around. She is only going to be 11
months on the 4th of March she is
justnbarely 20 pounds. I remember you
talking about this before a while ago
bridget, and I said something to her when
she first turned her around. All she had
to say was, No its ok, she is 20 pounds
now. When I watch her, I so despretely
want to turn her carseat around, but I
dont know how to, and if they see that i
do that, or if my older niece sees that I
do that I will feel like they will think I
am trying to tell them how to raise their
kids. I know that it is a convertable
one, but I just dont know how to work one
of those things, Im lucky if I can even
get it buckled into my car let alone turn
it around.
She is they type of person that you cant
tell them ANYTHING.
B - do you know where I can find any
videos that I can send her and just be
like oh man look what someone just sent
me..thats crazy... and maybe that will
get her thinking...
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OctoberBaby06
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Posted: 02-24-08 15:03pm
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wrote:
I HATE that my sil has
turned my baby niece around. She is only
going to be 11 months on the 4th of March
she is justnbarely 20 pounds. I remember
you talking about this before a while ago
bridget, and I said something to her when
she first turned her around. All she had
to say was, No its ok, she is 20 pounds
now. When I watch her, I so despretely
want to turn her carseat around, but I
dont know how to, and if they see that i
do that, or if my older niece sees that I
do that I will feel like they will think I
am trying to tell them how to raise their
kids. I know that it is a convertable
one, but I just dont know how to work one
of those things, Im lucky if I can even
get it buckled into my car let alone turn
it around.
She is they type of person that you cant
tell them ANYTHING.
B - do you know where I can find any
videos that I can send her and just be
like oh man look what someone just sent
me..thats crazy... and maybe that will
get her
thinking...
One of my cousins turned her little boy
around real soon too, & she didn't
just turn the seat around & leave him
in the infant car seat.. She went out
& got a toddler carseat that he had to
sit straight up in when he wasn't even big
enough yet (In my opinion). I was so mad,
my mom yells at me when I bring it up
though because she says I make my mistakes
too which is true but GOD!
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Idony
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Posted: 02-24-08 15:11pm
actualy the ONLY way you can have a baby
forward facing is straight up, you can NOT
put an infant seat forward facing, those
are strictly rear facing, that would
actualy be more dangerous if she had done
that because the seat is not ment to do
that its ment to be backwards, the toddler
ones are ment to be forwards (sorry if
that was incoherent, i get really upset
about this subject, and i get really mad
when i see a baby in a rear facing seat
facing forwards)
i completely understand what you mean
though, if the baby didnt have adaquate
head control (which is what im assuming
you mean by to little) its not only
dangerous in an accident but its dangerous
for a baby to sleep like that, their
airway could become compromised
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OctoberBaby06
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Posted: 02-24-08 15:18pm
Idony
wrote:
actualy the ONLY way you can
have a baby forward facing is straight up,
you can NOT put an infant seat forward
facing, those are strictly rear facing,
that would actualy be more dangerous if
she had done that because the seat is not
ment to do that its ment to be backwards,
the toddler ones are ment to be forwards
(sorry if that was incoherent, i get
really upset about this subject, and i get
really mad when i see a baby in a rear
facing seat facing forwards)
i completely understand what you mean
though, if the baby didnt have adaquate
head control (which is what im assuming
you mean by to little) its not only
dangerous in an accident but its dangerous
for a baby to sleep like that, their
airway could become
compromised
I didn't know you couldn't put those
infant seats forward facing lol, learn a new
thing everyday I guess! He wasn't so
little he couldn't hold his head up or
anything, he was 8 or 9 months old. Wayyyy
too young to be foward facing if you ask
me! She blamed it on the fact that he
looked uncomfy, & she has a little 2
door camaro so it was just easier for her
to get him in & out of the car if he
was foward facing.
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rosejackson
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Posted: 02-24-08 15:30pm
I gave William a new carseat when he was
20lbs. He was well over a year by then as
he's such a small child anyway and didn't
want him in it until he was gone 20lbs.
I think with this baby, it will stay in
the first carseat for as long as possible
because of what i've learnt since then
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Jolie_3110
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Posted: 02-24-08 15:41pm
I always turned mine when they grew to big
for the rear facing car seat. Will have to
read your link now though.
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jessesgirl
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Posted: 02-24-08 16:45pm
My sil moved her baby when she hit 20 lbs
instead of a year. She was only 8 months.
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vanessalouanne
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Posted: 02-24-08 16:56pm
I feel like I posted pictures of my
daughter in a front facing seat and this
thread was started right afterwards (which
I knew that someone would say something
about it..amazing)
my daughter is 30 inches long and over 20
lbs. i cant afford to go out and buy a
new carseat. I had her infant one, which
she is too big for, and the one she is in
now (the very expensive britax one which
wont fit when i put it backwards)
THerefore, until I have another almost 300
dollars to buy a new one, she'll be in her
front facing carseat at 8 months old, but
over the weight requirement.
PS i kept her bumpers on her crib too.. i
must be an awful parents.
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Ingi
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Posted: 02-24-08 18:04pm
vanessalouanne
wrote:
I feel like I posted
pictures of my daughter in a front facing
seat and this thread was started right
afterwards (which I knew that someone
would say something about it..amazing)
my daughter is 30 inches long and over 20
lbs. i cant afford to go out and buy a
new carseat. I had her infant one, which
she is too big for, and the one she is in
now (the very expensive britax one which
wont fit when i put it backwards)
THerefore, until I have another almost 300
dollars to buy a new one, she'll be in her
front facing carseat at 8 months old, but
over the weight requirement.
PS i kept her bumpers on her crib too.. i
must be an awful
parents.
I'm sorry you feel that way. Please don't
take this thread as a personal attack on
you. This thread does not appear to have
been directed at you whatsoever. In fact,
if you read what the other mothers said, a
lot of people do forward facing.
I also used crib bumpers and had my
daughter in her bassinette for 6 months.
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Bridget
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Posted: 02-24-08 18:23pm
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B - do you know where I can
find any videos that I can send her and
just be like oh man look what someone just
sent me..thats crazy... and maybe that
will get her
thinking...
just do a search on youtube for "extended
rearfacing" and there are a bunch of
videos.
vanessa, i don't know how you got the
impression that this was a personal attack
on you. another forum i frequent has posts
on this subject all the time and nobody
ever takes it personally. i just like to
mention it here every once in awhile
because it's something i feel very
strongly about and i know a lot of people
aren't even aware of extended rear-facing.
so if you see me wanting to educate others
as an attack on you, so be it.
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jessesgirl
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Posted: 02-24-08 21:11pm
vanessalouanne
wrote:
I feel like I posted
pictures of my daughter in a front facing
seat and this thread was started right
afterwards (which I knew that someone
would say something about it..amazing)
my daughter is 30 inches long and over 20
lbs. i cant afford to go out and buy a
new carseat. I had her infant one, which
she is too big for, and the one she is in
now (the very expensive britax one which
wont fit when i put it backwards)
THerefore, until I have another almost 300
dollars to buy a new one, she'll be in her
front facing carseat at 8 months old, but
over the weight requirement.
PS i kept her bumpers on her crib too.. i
must be an awful
parents.
You can buy a Cosco Scenera at Walmart or
Target for $40.
Which Britax do you have? We have the
Boulevard and it fit great rear facing.
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oh_mommy
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Posted: 02-25-08 00:01am
Reese was rear facing till 2 months ago so
he was 13 and half ish months, when we got
our new car the rear facing didnt really
work because the carseat was so big.. i
think his carseat goes up to 30lbs for
rear so i thought it was fine he was
already 25lbs anyways
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Altari
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Posted: 02-25-08 01:07am
I turned my girls around when they could
keep themselves stable and the rear facing
seat made them angry. I think all three
were somewhere between 11 and 14 months,
and over 20 pounds.
lol, learn a new
thing everyday I guess! He wasn't so
little he couldn't hold his head up or
anything, he was 8 or 9 months old. Wayyyy
too young to be foward facing if you ask
me! She blamed it on the fact that he
looked uncomfy, & she has a little 2
door camaro so it was just easier for her
to get him in & out of the car if he
was foward facing.
