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Which Car Seat Is Right for Your Child?
A valuable age-by-age guide to your child's car seat needs.
As your child grows, you'll need to change the direction that his car seat faces and how he sits in it -- and you may need to buy a new seat. Check out this age-by-age guide to keeping car travel safe for your little one.
Kids must remain rear-facing until they're 1 year old and 20 pounds, preferably longer. Your options are:
- Infant-only seat: This can be used until baby weighs 20 to 22 pounds or his head is within 1 inch of top of the seat.
- Rear-facing convertible: Most babies use this next, because they still need to ride rear-facing. (It may be used from birth, but infant-only seats fit small babies better.) Choose one certified to face rear until baby weighs at least 30 pounds.
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Having a baby facing forward, in a car-seat, sounds just about right when your LO starts sitting up. My LO has just turned 5 months old and starting to outgrow the rear-facing baby carrier. She's a tall baby.
8/22/2011 01:42:56 PM Report AbuseMy son was in the 95% ht percentile, so we moved him around 10 mo from an infant cs to a rear-facing convertible. He stayed rear-facing until around 14 mo and then we turned to forward-facing in the same convertible cs. We have the Evenflo Triumph and it goes up to 50 lbs. We haven't had any problems and really love the carseat. My son is now 2 1/2 and still rides well. We're getting ready to turn it again for my 9 mo old. The convertible cs has been worth every penny.
10/26/2010 12:59:43 PM Report AbuseMy child is 11 months.She is already taller and weighs more than babies her age.She is way to big for an infant car seat now and alot of people feel that it would be a waste of money to buy a convertible when she will be forward facing soon and feel that she is too long to be rear facing anymore because it bunches her legs.Alot of people say that we should invest in the Graco 3 in 1 that is foward facing, high back booster, and then regular booster. What should I do???
9/1/2010 03:00:27 PM Report Abusemy son is 8 months old and already weighs 25lbs and is almost to tall for the infant seat. i was told until he was a year old, but hes just getting too big for it, i think it is about time to graduate to a rear facing convertible,
8/19/2010 11:35:59 AM Report AbuseMy baby is long (or tall) I had a bunch of mothers tell me that she should already be graduating to a rear facing convertible by 5mnths! It didn't sound right to me. This helped a lot and I am keeping her in the infant-only seat. Thank you.
12/3/2009 01:00:48 PM Report Abuse