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Front facing car seat for baby?

36 replies

GingerNinjer · 23/03/2021 07:28

I have been gifted a front facing car seat for my granddaughter. She’s 10 months old. The manufacturer states the seat is suitable for babies aged from 9 months but I can’t shake the feeling that it’s unsafe? Despite the manufacture statement?

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dementedpixie · 23/03/2021 08:40

@PatricksRum

It's illegal.
No its not There are 2 sets of regulations that currently run side by side. The seat the OP has sounds like a weight based seat and although legal to forward face in it from 9 months /9kg it is not advised to do so
Mustardbay · 23/03/2021 08:44

Once I knew what internal decapitation was I decided to rear face until she's 18, or 4 anyway.

Marvelwife123 · 23/03/2021 08:49

Noooooooo! I didn’t realise it I looked into this they are much safer rear facing as as long as possible. That car seat will be useful in a few years but definitely look into a rear facing.

Good options are britax, axikid etc they all do extended rear facing

Marvelwife123 · 23/03/2021 08:49

@Mustardbay I said this about my kids being 18 and still rear facing 😂🤣

Trumplosttheelection · 23/03/2021 08:50

It's not unsafe but rear facing is probably safer. It's an important distinction.

Norwaydidnthappen · 23/03/2021 08:53

Rear facing until at least 3, preferably 4. My DS is 2.5 and still rear facing.

Hardbackwriter · 23/03/2021 09:53

The Nania car seats with white buckles are normally made by Team Tex and have been made incredibly cheaply and meet the minimum car seat safety requirements. I think PP was being slightly hyperbolic by saying no seat was better than one of those seats but they aren’t much better.

Again, I think anyone claiming this has no idea how many babies and toddlers are still transported by just being put on someone's lap or in the footwell, and so how dangerous it is to spread the message that if you're just going to buy the cheapest seat you might as well not bother. Meeting the minimum standards is a lot better than meeting no safety standards.

ClaraLane · 23/03/2021 11:47

@Hardbackwriter

The Nania car seats with white buckles are normally made by Team Tex and have been made incredibly cheaply and meet the minimum car seat safety requirements. I think PP was being slightly hyperbolic by saying no seat was better than one of those seats but they aren’t much better.

Again, I think anyone claiming this has no idea how many babies and toddlers are still transported by just being put on someone's lap or in the footwell, and so how dangerous it is to spread the message that if you're just going to buy the cheapest seat you might as well not bother. Meeting the minimum standards is a lot better than meeting no safety standards.

That’s rather a facetious argument though. It’s like saying “well there are starving children in other parts of the world so feeding your child chicken nuggets 24/7 is better than letting them starve”. Yes a shit seat is arguably better than no seat but a non-shit seat is better than a shit one!
EvilOnion · 23/03/2021 12:06

I think 99.9% of people would know that it's not a serious suggestion that you'd be as well not using a seat.

It's just a slant on how (notoriously) bad Team-tex seats are. But even then yes, they're still better than nothing.

The fact that someone has bought one in good faith shows that they are taking an interest in their child safety. Having no seat at all says otherwise.

StoneColdBitch · 23/03/2021 13:44

@Hardbackwriter

The Nania car seats with white buckles are normally made by Team Tex and have been made incredibly cheaply and meet the minimum car seat safety requirements. I think PP was being slightly hyperbolic by saying no seat was better than one of those seats but they aren’t much better.

Again, I think anyone claiming this has no idea how many babies and toddlers are still transported by just being put on someone's lap or in the footwell, and so how dangerous it is to spread the message that if you're just going to buy the cheapest seat you might as well not bother. Meeting the minimum standards is a lot better than meeting no safety standards.

I agree with this.

Last year, a relative tried to get me to agree to my 4-month-old being carried on their lap for a short car journey.

In 2020. With all the car seat safety messages that are out there.

This was an educated professional in their 30s.

A cheap seat is much safer than nothing.

Meatshake · 23/03/2021 18:12

I didn't actually mean to suggest not using a seat. Apologies to the hard of thinking, stop derailing the thread now, eh 🙄

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