x-no-archive:yes (Robyn Kozierok) wrote:

In article ,
Rosalie B. wrote:
x-no-archive:yes ospam (Splanche) wrote:

Most people seem to say that it gets better when they can face
forward. I know that the carseats are safer when they face backward,
but what would be the tradeoff of turning them around earlier to see
whether that was what it was?

Tradeoff might be a broken neck in a car accident.
Rear facing for infants protects them better since their heads are
disproportionately large to their bodies, and their necks are not strong, if
memory serves me.

I didn't mean to keep it that way, but to see if he would scream less
if he was facing front just as an experiment. Unless you get into a
car accident every time you go out of course.

I'm not sure what the point of such an experiment would be if you weren't
willing to keep it that way permanently. Knowing he would scream less "if
only" they could safely face him forward is not much comfort when they can't
safely face him forward.

The idea would be that they could think about ways to not take him out
until he was old enough to face forwards. I mean - someone stay home
with the kid and someone else go to the grocery store. Or walk. Or
have the groceries delivered. The only place you'd absolutely HAVE to
take him I would think would be the doctor.

And if that was NOT it, then maybe they should look carefully to see
what it might be. Otherwise there's maybe some totally safe way to
have him in the car seat and not having him scream, but no one has
taken the time to see what it is.

Some of my grandchildren have been in the car seat in the house.
Isn't that possible in this case? If he screams in the car seat when
it is not in the car, then it is the car seat itself, and not riding
backwards in the car. Riding frontwards won't help.

--Robyn

grandma Rosalie