Trying to buy a new car seat for large nearly 3-year-old as he is too heavy for his i-Size. He is almost 18kg so very few options for front facing harnessed seats. Rather more options for rear facing and extended rear facing.
The reason I'm not sure is that as an infant/young toddler DS screamed holy hell in the car when travelling backwards, both in his infant carrier and his current i-Size seat. I'm not talking cried himself to sleep, I'm talking hysterical SCREAMING non-stop until he was sick. I had to pull the car over multiple times each journey and never drove for more than half an hour in any direction as it was so stressful. I turned him round at 15 months and the screaming turned to a whine, a murmur, and nowadays he chats away happily in the car.
I now don't know whether to risk a very expensive but much safer rear facing seat with the possibility he'd hate it, or just stick with a forward facing one (at a third of the cost) knowing he'll be fine with it.
Has anyone successfully turned a forward facing child backwards? Or can you think of a way I could test out a rear facing option without having to pony up?
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Has anyone had a front-facing toddler and then turned them back round to be ERF?
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StoodOnALego · 02/01/2019 20:29
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