Selecting the comfortable car seat for your baby (link)

Many parents are concerned about the safety of their babies, as we know; the baby is easy to be harmed in the accident. How to guarantee the baby safety in the car? The car seats would be the crucial element. Selecting car seat scores highly in the many test reports available is all very well but selecting car seat that fits your car properly is probably the more important feature for your child's safety.

Group 0+ Infant Carriers

This group of car seat can be used in the front or rear of the car but cannot be used in the front passenger seat if there is a passenger airbag. It is safer to put them in the rear. Rearward-facing them provide greater protection for the baby's head, neck and spine than forward-facing them. The passenger airbag would play an important role in the emergencies.

Babies should be in a rearward facing car seat and should not be placed in a forward-facing seat until they weigh at least 9 kgs and can sit up unaided. Babies should be kept in a rearward-facing it for as long as possible. Once your child is above the maximum weight for a rearward-facing seat or the top of their head is above the top of the seat they should be moved into a forward-facing it. It is not important if their knees are bent in the seat, provided they are still within the seat's weight range.

Group 0+ and 1 Car Seats

Suitable for Babies up to 18kg, Birth to 4 years approximately.
Ideal car seats if you do not have to constantly remove them from car to car, they are a much larger seat designed to protect your baby from newborn to 4 years approximately. The car seat is used rearward facing when using for a baby up to 9kgs. It can be used forward facing once the baby has reached 9 to 13kg weight. Baby does not have to be forward facing until they are 13 kgs. It is important to check that this style of child car seat is compatible with your vehicle when fitted forward AND rearward facing. You must never leave baby asleep unattended in any car.

Forward-facing child seat

Once a child has outgrown a rearwards facing seat, the best option is to use a Group 1 it with an integral harness, the large area of the harness helps to reduce the risk of injury if there is a crash. The bottom attachment between the legs will also prevent the child from sliding under, and out of the harness. They can be used in the front or rear of the car but it is safer to put them in the rear especially if there is a passenger airbag in the front. Once again it is safest to keep children in this type of car seat until they have outgrown it.

Only move your child to a booster seat once they have exceeded the maximum weight for the child seat or the top of their head is higher than the top of it. If you intend to use this car seat between two cars please ensure that the model of car seat purchased is suitable for both cars. It may be simpler to purchase two seats each one fitting the car perfectly rather than buying one seat which may not fit either car perfectly as great care is needed to follow the seat belt routings and tighten well. They can also be car specific for correct fitting and not every child seat fits every car.

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