Extended Rear Facing

Now that Titus has received his new car seat in the mail, we are back to rear facing.  Why?  Because it is safer!  Technically, it is safer for EVERYONE to ride rear facing, but that just doesn't work.  Someone has to drive!  In a forward facing seat, a child's torso is held in place while their head whips forward potentially breaking the neck of a young child.  Rear facing, the head and neck are cradled by the seat and protected in a crash.  Titus outgrew the rear facing limits on his old seat, but the new seat (Sunshine Kids Radian 65) can be used rear facing up to 45 lbs!  He thinks it is cool to ride backwards.  The AAP recommends that children remain rear facing to the limits of the seat.  The law is 20 lbs and 1 yr old before they can turn around.  Moving up in car seats is not a milestone I look forward to.  Every time they outgrow a seat (turn forward, then move into a booster, etc) they are a little less protected in a crash and a lot more likely to be injured or killed.  If you want to know more about rear facing vrs forward facing, I would encourage you to go to you tube and search for "car seat crash tests."  Watch the rear facing one and the forward facing one...and then the booster seat one...now you know why Titus rides backwards (and Raquelle is still in a 5 pt harness.)



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