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.

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.

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)

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?

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

I always turned mine when they grew to big for the rear facing car seat. Will have to read your link now though.

My sil moved her baby when she hit 20 lbs instead of a year. She was only 8 months.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.