What age did you face your LO forward in a car seat?

[Mamabear04]

What age did you face your LO forward in a car seat?

Dc1 was 10m, dc2 was 3y, dc3 was 3y2m and dc4 was 4y.

Dc1 is 16 so extended rearfacing wasn’t really a thing then but all my others (now 13,9&6) rearfaced for as long as possible as it’s so much safer. Would never forward face before 3y.

18 months

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10 months but mainly because I was fed up of clearing up sick. She has never suffered travel sickness when travelling forwards but did horrendously (and still does on a train or bus) when backwards. The hv advised turning her and it was the best decision ever

Still RF at 4. No plans to FF anytime soon.

About 4

About 10 months or so - he hated RF and was travel sick. Once he was FF he seemed to love travelling in the car.

4.5yrs and still rear facing. Planned to switch when started school in Sept but may wait another year as not growing out of seat anytime soon

I would add, that in real life, I have not met anyone that has RF beyond 12 months.

Not yet. Planning to RF until at least 4.

1. Have axkid mini kids that go up to 25kg, they are great.

10 months with DS (pre law change) and 15 months with DD (post law change)

We're a tall family and couldn't fit the head rest high enough behind the front car seats

LO is only 16m but plan to RF until he outgrows his axkid minikid. several of my friends RF their toddlers too.

6.5 years so far and she hasn’t outgrown her rf seat yet

Eldest was 4.5 years - needed the minikid for little brother, who is still rear facing at 2.5 and will be until he’s at least 4.

And yes I know lots of people in real life who rear face their 3 and 4 year olds, none of my friends have their 2 year olds forward facing

4.5yrs for my eldest and my 3yo is still rear facing too and will be until she grows out of that car seat at around 4.5yrs.

I know one person who really wanted to RF to 4 but had to FF at 2. Firstly she was way too pregnant to get her son into the RF seat and secondly he puked ALL THE TIME until FF

Both just after turning 3.

4.5 with my eldest. No. 2 is about to turn 4 and still rear-facing.

About 15 months, was normal then

2.5 here and no plans to stop

We are still RF at almost 20 months. No plans to move until seat outgrown-probably at least 3, if not 4.

With my first DD 15 years ago I FF at 1 year old which I now cringe about 😑 Better educated this time around so DD 3 will rear face till she out grows her 25kg rear facing seat which given her charts shouldn't be till she's at least 5 😊

3y6m still RF in an extended rear facing seat (up to 25kg). However, she’s 22kg already so will not be able to RF as long as I’d like. She has a FF seat as a spare for DH’s car but it’s top of its class in terms of safety, has a crotch strap etc so although it’s there for emergencies I don’t intend to use it regularly until she outgrows the RF seat