To be considering a front facing car seat

[Wilf83]

I'm a ftm & only just heard that a rear facing car seat are the safest. All my friends with 3 year old+ have always had front facing seats after their baby car seats so to me front facing from 12 months is normal but now I'm thinking that it would be really reckless of me.

Mini, I have been rewarded with DD2 Sleeping 7 hours at 7 weeks! Not sure she's a real baby

Wow! Well you've earned it. I am due DD2 in April and shall hope for something similar (DD was and still often is an awful sleeper...)

We went with ff because ds1 got terribly car sick in rf. Yes internal decapitation is horrific but it is damn rare and throwing up each and every time you go anywhere in the car is damn miserable.

We brought rear facing after doing some internet research. We got to a stage where DS was too tall for his stage 0 seat but not heavy enough or old enough to move into a forward facing seat.
I'm so glad this happened because it made me look at other options! We brought the cybex sirona and I absolutely love it, DS now 8months looks very comfortable and I've had two different 3 year olds in it rear facing and they seem comfortable too, their legs don't seem cramped at all :) I was worried about the seats being really bulky but the cybex is as slimline as it can be :)

With DS we got a forward facing seat when he outgrew his carrier at 12 months. Up until then I hadn't heard much about ERF so I just got a britax trifix which was deemed very safe. He loves being forward facing.

With DC2 I'm planning to get an ERF which can be forward facing about 18kg, and then goes up to 25kg. This is a fairly new idea to me today as we have the infant carrier I planned to use, I will still use that for grandparent's car and then they'll be forward facing in their car once the carrier is too small. Ideally, we'd get another ERF seat for their car but at their current price tag I'm unable to afford it.

Don't worry too much, it all depends on how much you drive and what kinds of roads you drive on. It's proven to be safer to ERF but the ff seats are not death traps so try not to give yourself a hard time. Try some seats, do your research and make a decision from there knowing that there are so many of us in the same situation.