Rear-Facing Car Seat Safety - a video this time!

I know I said I was on holidays until mid-September but I couldn't help sharing this. I heard from a lot of parents after my post two weeks ago both in support of my opinions about keeping children rear-facing for as long as possible and against them. I want to remind all parents that your decisions and choices are yours alone and you are entitled to make them. It is my role, professionally speaking, to inform new, expectant and established parents of the various options available to them to make themselves and their babies as safe as possible.



It is babyREADY's position, and therefore my position as well, that we should keep our children rear-facing as long as it is safe to do so by the height and weight guidelines presented in the instruction manual of the car seat. If your child outgrows the rear-facing infant carrier (and most do in length by the time they are about 6 months old) then they need to move to a convertible infant/child seat and remain rear-facing.

What you do with the information I present here is entirely your choice. I would argue however, as this video does, that your child is better to be unhappy rear-facing but alive as opposed to happier and much less safe forward-facing. That is my opinion. That's all it is. Please understand that I won't condemn you for making different decisions then what I recommend here. You have to do what works for your family. Mine is not to make you feel guilty, it is simply to offer you food for thought.

Posted by Sam