To be so bloody confused about car seats?

[Bugsymalonemumof2]

I have a DS he is 2.4 months and 17.5kg. He has recently learnt to physically unclip his car seat harness so I'm trying to come up with a solution.

I stop as soon as I can but do lots and lots of dual. Carriageway and motorway driving so it is often miles before I can stop.

I was looking at the bumper shield car seats but they seem to be 18kg limits for the shields?

I'm so confused :(

[kaytee87]

God even I struggle to unclip my sons car seat 😂

[tinysnickersaremyfavourite]

@bugsymalone I suggest that you join the Facebook group called "csftl - UK and Europe" and post your query there.
There are qualified car seat fitters and retailers in the group who can advise you of your options in this situation.

[Windingstreams]

@anym0use I’m not getting confused. Numerous research has shown that being overweight as a child increases height. I just googled it to double check and yep, it’s all there!

[Absofrigginlootly]

1) The website you mentioned is actively marketing seats as being suitable for up to age 4, or 105cm, when in reality, the seat is only suitable for up to 18kg in weight.

Age is irrelevant to car seat technology, they work on weight limits. The fact that you keep referring to age, not weight leads me to believe you are confused about the facts.

As I understood from the research I have done, age is not irrelevant because of the musculoskeletal development of children. Their height and weight doesn’t matter in terms of spinal development for example. So the advice to rear face until 4 years (ideally 6) isn’t just about which seats are suitable to rear face up until 25kg and that is generally the average weight of 4-6 year olds, it’s that it’s also safer because children under 4 have much bigger head to body ratios and immature vertebrae - meaning a serious spinal cord injury is much more likely in forward facing vs RF

[angelikacpickles]

OP, just to check, do you know that the harness on your current seat will most likely be outgrown at 18kg and that it is absolutely not safe to use a high back booster before age 4?

On what basis do you say this? Since when are seats rated by age?

[hennaoj]

Joie Bold is probably of no use anyway. My rather tall autistic 5 year old (out grew a regular group 1 car seat at age 2 aswell) has recently managed to undo his harnessedi seat belt on it by himself.
Have you considered a crelling harness?