Extended rear facing car seats

[Greentoytractor]

Anyone rear faced beyond aged 4? I'm tempted to buy an extended rear facing seat for my little one, but feel like I'm very much in the minority! Even if I can get another year or so of her rear facing, I think I'd be happy to suck up the cost of the car seat.

Any thoughts on the be safe stretch or axkid seats very welcome!

Axkid minikid is amazing. I can’t remember which number we were on but both mine RF until 5yo

6yo in an axkid one 2, he loves it. We bought another for grandparents car but his sister is in that now so he ff in their car. If you asked him he'd say he preferred ff but he's not really bothered. My dd has a besafe twist in our car. And our smaller ds in a cybex. Everyone will probably move up this summer and big ds will ff in our car too.

Car seat manufacturers have lists of what cars they fit in. You can find them online- they're very detailed down to year a d model of car. The axkid one 2 fits in a mini.

My almost 5 year old and 2.5 year old both rf. We have axkid mini 2s and a britax maxway plus. I get annoyed with the britax as the clips that hold the seatbelt slip so have to faff about tightening it quite a bit whereas the axkids dont move at all.

I will probably get a hbb for 1 car from Sept for eldest for local journeys as no-one else in her class is in a hbb. She had a party for her 3rd birthday and I was suprised that even then all her friends were ff.

Yep! Both of mine rear face (5 and 3) and both sets of grandparents have erf car seats for their cars at my request. Because of this, my niece and nephew also erf. Totally fine rear facing, my oldest has asked why he does and I've explained it's safer but adults have to face forward as they won't fit in the car otherwise, but if I could drive the car facing backwards I would! Mine are large but I'm still hoping to get to at least six before they face forwards.

The Besafe takes up a lot more room than the Axkid seats. Axkid or Avionaut are the most compact. I think Britax is in the middle? Besafe notoriously enormous, though.

If you put in your postcode on the Axkid website stockist finder, you might have a local ERF specialist who can try different seats in the car. The problem with doing this on other brand seats is that there are a lot of normal car seat retailers who don't stock ERF seats, but all Axkid stockists do, and most of them have other brands to compare, not just Axkid.

We have the be safe stretch. My dd is 4 but shes 91 on percentile so I'll be lucky if she hasn't out grown by the age of 6 but we'll definitely be rear facing as long as we can.

its a really comfy car seat, it can recline and you can extend the leg but my dd isn't fussed about that. She also likes seeing out the back window when we're driving long distances x