Is your 1 year old facing forwards or backwards?

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Car seat law has changed since my first born and I'm a bit confused, even with the help of Google!

DS 1 is 11 months and weighs 11.5kg. He is facing forwards as the seat I have is from 9kg. However, someone told me it is the law they should face to the rear now. Is this correct?

My 2.5 year old forward faces on local journeys but I face her backwards on motorways or if I know we’ll go on fast roads.. I have a 360 seat so she can spin around. She hates backwards facing but I can guarantee she’ll fall asleep on the motorway & not scream the entire journey!

There is no law, it’s just what’s safest. But equally, I find having a screaming toddler in the back extremely distracting & stressful & therefore on local journeys on 30mph roads, I have her forwards for my own driving safety!

I’ve always had my daughter behind the passenger seat for safety of getting her out should we break down on the motorway! But she’ll have to move for baby two. Our fiesta does not have a full middle seat..!

2.5yo is RF and will be until he outgrows the 25kg limits on axkid minikid or britax twe (one of each).
It's not negotiable for me. Passenger side rear seat, partly as the TWE has to brace on the seat in front and DH and I can't get the drivers' seat where we need it otherwise.

The only problem with knowing the safe seats is that you will feel forever guilty when allocating them.

Five almost six forward facing
Almost four just forward facing
Two year old rear facing

My twins are 3 and still rear facing. Would rather broken legs than broken necks. Most of my friends turned their kids ages ago though.

I rear faced mine until age 4.

When allocating sage seats you base it on age and their stage, so a rear facer is always put in a more risky position than a forward facer. If they are both rear facing then you go by age, so oldest goes in most risky position. So I was told anyway.

Thank you all for your replies. I will most definitely be ordering a rear facing seat tomorrow! I have an eight year old and the law was different back then.

When allocating sage seats you base it on age and their stage, so a rear facer is always put in a more risky position than a forward facer. If they are both rear facing then you go by age, so oldest goes in most risky position. So I was told anyway

Not helpful if you have twins or even triplets however. I alternate them each trip!

Mine are 4 and 2 and both rear facing with no intention to turn them any time soon. They’ll both stay rear facing until they outgrow their seats (25kg). The 4yo is only just 15kg now so she will probably outgrow hers by height before weight!

The law is related to i-size seats specifically.

But my older one rear faced to 4.5 and younger one will as well (he’s 22 months now).

It’s safer. It’s a no brainier. The seat was expensive but we used dd’s birthday money from her first birthday to buy it (what could be a better use for it than that?). But we’ll get almost 7 years of use from it by the time youngest goes to a booster seat.

16 month old. Rear facing.

20 month old. Rear facing.

My 4 year old is still rear facing. It’s safer so we do it.

My 14 month old is rear facing and I plan on doing it until he's four.