Using an overseas baby car seat to prolong rear facing for my DD in the car

[Big Green Frog]

Unfortunately I don't have speakers at the moment but when I get them I will be watching the link. A youtube video is what made me ditch the normal boosters for ones with tether straps and a H harness.

Mel you can watch the link without speakers you will just miss out on the nice background music It is all witten on the clip not spoken

[Pandamum]

Sorry to be a little OT but this has been puzzling me all day

Originally Posted by bilbylove

I thought that rear facing seats fits into attachment parenting, so that's why i thought lots of Nappycino mums would know about this area.

Is there some way that rear-facing seats allow parents to be more physically or emotionally attached to their children than in forward facing seats

[missymoo84]

Originally Posted by Pandamum

Sorry to be a little OT but this has been puzzling me all day



Is there some way that rear-facing seats allow parents to be more physically or emotionally attached to their children than in forward facing seats

Sorry couldn't help but laugh!

Thanks Wems, Just watched it. Did anyone else notice that the FF seats weren't tether strapped at all? Is this because it is American? (noticed a little note in there about a statement from some USA company) Also the shoulder straps were way too loose. Noone would have straps that loose. Interesting watch though.

[Big Green Frog]

Originally Posted by Pandamum

Sorry to be a little OT but this has been puzzling me all day



Is there some way that rear-facing seats allow parents to be more physically or emotionally attached to their children than in forward facing seats

I think i could take a pretty good guess of what B means

hanks Wems, Just watched it. Did anyone else notice that the FF seats weren't tether strapped at all? Is this because it is American? (noticed a little note in there about a statement from some USA company) Also the shoulder straps were way too loose. Noone would have straps that loose. Interesting watch though.

Yeah it is American so hence the no tether straps so NOT a true show of what would happen here in Australia there are probably australian ones I might have a search

And I ahve seen a lot of people with the car seat straps that loose you could fit another baby in there

[zoekisses]

[quote=missymoo84;603577] Sorry couldn't help but laugh!

Thanks Wems, Just watched it. Did anyone else notice that the FF seats weren't tether strapped at all? Is this because it is American? (noticed a little note in there about a statement from some USA company) Also the shoulder straps were way too loose. Noone would have straps that loose. Interesting watch though.[/quot

Neathere were the rear ward facing ones, I get it. However I have just turned my daughter however long trips were horrendus with her rear facing she was sick alot and this has rectified it self on forward facing position.

[missymoo84]

Zoe I can see why cos when I sit on a bus backwards I get horribly sick

I know there are some people that have loose straps, I have seen parents THROW their kids in the car and do the 5 point up with their arms out (this was even in front of a cop... long story). I always check their straps each time I buckle them in cos different clothes can make the straps sit different. I think it's just called responsible parenting Unfortunately not all kids are as lucky as ours Wems.

I believe that RF would be safer with the right car seat (one that is designed for higher weight limits RF).

How would one go about trying to push Australia into bringing them in? Or is this something that is already being looked into?

[bilbylove]

Originally Posted by Pandamum

Sorry to be a little OT but this has been puzzling me all day



Is there some way that rear-facing seats allow parents to be more physically or emotionally attached to their children than in forward facing seats

What i meant Pandamum, lots of other things we do (Nappycino mums), are a bit left of centre (slings, co-sleeping, MCN, breastfeeding, baby led weaning, EC-ing) - so prolonged rear facing child seats seems another left of centre "marginal" idea too, progressive and most people would have never heard of it, let alone be doing it.

That's what i meant by it fitting into "attachment parenting" to me. Looking for new ways of being child focused.

Since being exposed to attachment parenting, i question and analyse anything to do with my child alot differently than if i was going with the mainstream.

hope that explains what i meant.

[Lucy]

this might be interesting reading for you?
http://www.racv.com.au/wps/wcm/resou...ber%202007.pdf

Road Safety Tips

[bilbylove]

thanks for those links Lucy

i actually picked up that leaflet to take home, from the hospital i had bilby at. (the Safety Shop)

[Tracey]

I have just read through a 10 page article listed in the Road Safety Tips link. And it states that:

No cases of serious neck injury to a child in a
forward facing child seat with top tether and six
point harness have ever come to the attention of
Australian researchers, provided the CRS and
harness are correctly used and there is no
intrusion into the child's survival space.
Australian researchers have found many cases of
children, some as young as 8 months old,
surviving very severe crashes without injury.