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*NEW ARTICLE Rear facing is best!! TRUE STORY
PLEASE, for your children’s sake, consider leaving them in REAR-FACING (RF) car seats as longs as you can. Although it is “suggested” by many people and organizations, that you can turn them forward facing at 1 yr / 20 lbs, and seats are made to accommodate that, it doesn’t mean they will not be subjected to cervical spine injuries in an accident. Sure, it’ll hold their body in place, as it did for my grandson. But their head is thrown violently forward!! Actually, if you do your homework, front facing children “75% more likely to be injured” in a crash ( http://www.carseatsite.com/rf.htm ). MORE…
1. Volvo Improves Safety For ChildrenFrom Motor Trend’s Truck Trend, June 13, 2006
For over 30 years, Volvo has developed child safety systems to help protect its littlest passengers. Throughout those years, Volvo held to the belief that safety protection should be for all occupants, regardless of size or age. While safety is paramount, Volvo also believes that keeping children comfortable is in the best interest of parents, as well as the children themselves. MORE…
2. THINK! New Child Car Seat Regulations,
The UK’s road safety web site
Why do children need child restraints in the car? When a vehicle is involved in a crash it comes to an abrupt halt. If they’re not restrained, the people inside the vehicle will crash into parts of the vehicle itself. Restraints are designed to stop this from happening and to distribute the forces of a crash over the strongest parts of the human body, with minimum damage to the soft tissues. When a vehicle is involved in a crash it comes to an abrupt halt. If they’re not restrained, the people inside the vehicle will crash into parts of the vehicle itself. Restraints are designed to stop this from happening and to distribute the forces of a crash over the strongest parts of the human body, with minimum damage to the soft tissues. MORE…
3. Diaper Pin: Is Your Baby Ready to Face Forward in the Car?by Karen Plomp
http://www.plomp.com
The first year of your baby is a time full of milestones. The first smile, the first teeth, the first solids and often the first words. Some people think that turning around their baby in the car, is a first year mile stone too. It seems like a neat thing to do, it is more fun to be able to see the baby and it just looks cute. But they are wrong! It is very dangerous to turn a baby around in her car seat before her first birthday. This article will help you decide when your baby really is ready to be turned around. Rule of thumb is ‘later is better’! MORE…
4. Why Rear-Facing is Safest:by CarSeatSafety.org
A common question asked by parents is, “How soon can I turn my child to face forward?” The universally accepted response is to keep your child rear facing to AT LEAST one year of age AND 20 pounds in weight. In fact, it is preferable to keep your child rear-facing as long as possible, and that may mean up to 30 or 35 pounds for most convertible car seats. MORE…
5. American Academy of Pediatrics GuidelinesDespite the existence of laws in all 50 states requiring the use of car safety seats or child restraint devices for young children, more children are still killed as passengers in car crashes than from any other type of injury. Pediatricians and other health care professionals need to provide up-to-date,appropriate information for parents regarding car safety seat choices and proper use. Although the American Academy of Pediatrics is not a testing or standard-setting organization, this policystatement discusses the Academy’s current recommendations based on the peer-reviewed literature available at the time of publication and sets forth some of the factors that parents should consider before selecting and using a car safety seat. MORE…
6. MSNBC: Toddlers Should Face the Rear Longer
By Victoria Clayton
MSNBC contributor
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Ask any parent about graduating their infant from a rear-facing car seat to a forward-facing one and you’ll likely hear this common refrain — at least 20 pounds and at least one year (although some estimates say a full 30 percent of parents go against this guideline and actually face their children forward earlier). MORE…
7. Rear-Facing Car Seats:What You Need to Know, by Kathleen Weber
There are many misunderstandings and misconceptions about the crash environment that lead even the best-intentioned parent or pediatrician to believe a child is “safe” facing forward when s/he is still very young. These come from obsolete ideas and advice that may still appear in older pamphlets and pediatric literature but that have been updated in recent years. MORE…
8. CPSafety: Rear-Facing, Unmatched SafetyRear-facing is the safest position the child can ride in. It is strongly recommended that all children stay rear-facing beyond the minimum requirements of 1 year and 20 lbs. Children should not be turned forward-facing until they reach the maximum rear-facing limits of a convertible seat (that allows rear-facing to at least 30 lbs). These limits are either the maximum rear-facing weight limit or when the top of their head is within one inch of the top of the seat shell, whichever comes first. While most parents are aware that they must keep their children rear-facing “until they are AT LEAST 1 year old AND 20 lbs”, very few are told that there are significant safety benefits when a child remains rear-facing as long as the seat allows. For most children, rear-facing can and should continue well into the second year of life. MORE…
9. National Highway TransportThrough education, training, enforcement, outreach and legislation, NHTSA seeks to ensure that all children ages 0-16 are properly restrained in the correct restraint system for their age and size every time they travel in a motor vehicle. While great progress has been achieved in recent years in preventing child occupant deaths and injuries, and increasing the correct use of child safety seats, booster seats and safety belts – thanks in no small measure to the tireless dedication of NHTSA and its many partners in the child passenger safety community – more work needs to be done to protect child occupants who remain at heightened risk. MORE…
10. The Carseat Lady
In an ideal world, everyone (except the driver) would ride rear-facing. Flight attendants do–and its no coincidence. MORE…
11. BCAA Traffic Safety FoundationEnsure your loved one is as safe as possible in your vehicle. A correctly installed and used child car seat can reduce the risk of injury and death. MORE…
12. Child Passenger Safety Technical EncyclopediaRear-facing vs. forward-facing Safety experts and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that children remain rear-facing as long as possible and never travel forward-facing before they are 1 year old and also weigh at least 20 pounds to reduce the risk of serious neck injury and lifelong disability. All new convertible seats available today allow a child to remain rear-facing until they weigh up to 30 or 35 lb, depending on the model.When the child is rear-facing, the head, neck, and thorax are restrained together by the back of the CR in a frontal crash. There is little or no relative motion between the head and torso that could load the neck. If the same child were facing forward, the harness would restrain the torso, but the head and neck would pull and rotate forward, leading to the potential for serious upper spinal injury. MORE…
13. Infant & Nursery Products Association of Australia Inc. Caring for Australia’s Babies1. Does a car restraint have to be fitted by a qualified person?
Generally most car seats can be fitted by most people if they carefully follow the manufacturer’s instructions, however some people do prefer to get a qualified fitter to perform the installation. We advise that you carefully read all the manufacturer’s instructions for installation. In the event of doubt about the method of installation, consult the manufacturer of the child restraint or a child restraint fitting station authorized by the Road and Traffic Authority in your state. MORE…
A rear facing car seat is a seat that is used for the child under the age of one and it faces the back of the vehicle. There are different types of seat that can be used for this purpose. An infant only carrier and a convertible seat. Also there is a law, in some places this is only a recommendation and it is best to check with your state/provincial laws to be sure that you are within the law. I will discuss the recommendations based on studies that have proven to be effective. MORE…
15. Rear-Facing Car Seat Rules – Why You Should Consider Extended Rear-FacingBabies should be in rear-facing car seats for at least one year and until they weigh at least 20 pounds, but that’s really a minimum standard. Extended rear-facing, beyond one year and 20 pounds, has big safety advantages that parents should consider. MORE…
