Some people saysing the new law is that a child can be foward facing.?

Question

My daughter is now getting too long for her carry car seat and dont know what to do shes 5 months and 15lbs. Please can someone help

Answer 1

Try these sites..............

http://www.childseatcenter.com/article10...

http://www.aap.org/family/carseatguide.h...

Answer 2

I'm sure you are more concerned with safety than what the law is.  It is safest for the baby to be rear facing until they are at 20-22 lbs. We just purchased a convertible carseat (forward or rear facing) for the same reason. We are using it rear facing until our daughter is big enough to turn it around. Good Luck!

Answer 3

my son was the same way. get a forward facing set that also does rear facing. that what i did

Answer 4

Where I live (British Columbia, Canada) there are new laws coming into effect on July 1/08 for child restraints.

They don't recommend any child under 100 lb to be seated in the front seat.

Also, from birth to one year of age, the child must be in a rear facing infant seat.

You can get that information from either your Public Health Nurse, or from the DMV or the local Police Department and these people will refer you to the proper authorities.

You certainly want optimum safety for your child and so you want to find out the proper way to keep him/her safe.

Answer 5

Infant seats are outgrown when a child reaches the weight limit, or more commonly when the child has less than one inch of plastic shell above his head.

Infants then move to a rearfacing (RF) convertible seats and MUST remain RF until at least 1 year AND 20lbs, but should remain RF until the limits of the seat (30-35lbs in the US).

The recommendation from safety experts and the American Academy of Pediatrics is to rearface (RF) to the limits of the seat which is 30-35lbs on all seats sold in the US. My 3 year old daughter still rides RF and prefers it over FF.  

I have included several links with great pictures and videos of what happens to children’s necks when they are FF in a crash.

Most people are concerned about their child's legs being scrunched or broken in a crash. There is absolutely no evidence that shows a child's legs are in danger and I would much rather deal with a broken leg, than a broken neck.