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Little One HATES the car seat!
Robyn Kozierok wrote in :
[snip] Does the handle need to be down on an infant seat? Yes. You should always put the handle of an infant seat in the down position while in the car. If there is not enough room to put the handle down in your vehicle, rotate the handle down further toward the floor. In a crash, the infant seat will rebound into the back seat. If the handle is up, it could break and seriously injure the infant or another passenger. The Britax Handle With Care is the only infant seat with a reinforced handle that can be upright in the car. This advice probably varies with country. With the baby car seat we had, you had to have the handle up, otherwise the seat belt would be in the baby's face. Admittedly that was nine years ago, but when I checked on UK websites just now, I could find no information about the correct position of the carrying handle. -- Penny Gaines UK mum to three |
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Little One HATES the car seat!
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. grandma Rosalie No, I plan my accidents in advance, of course, to make sure that they don't happen at an inopportune time. ;-) |
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Little One HATES the car seat!
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 |
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