Best car seats for a 1 year old?

[yvonneb13]

Just that basically I'm a first time mum
Not sure what to get there seems so many and all different price ranges.

Look into Extended Rear Facing (ERF) and using an extended rear facing car seat for as long as possible. It is much safer - quoted often up to 5 x safer. Ideally a car seat that is Swedish Plus Tested (very high level of safety testing also including neck forces at a high speed, the minimum standards in UK I understand are shockingly low something like testing at 30/40mph not measuring any forces on neck). There are good websites, FB groups and videos etc on YouTube and you can get seats that rear face to up to about 6/7 years. Also look at myth busting info - their legs will be fine!!

A few example seats just to get a bit of an idea...

Axkid Minikid / Move
Avionaut Sky
Britax Max Pro
Joie Stages/spin
Maxi Cosi and Cybex do seats that ERF.

If you can go to a proper centre / fitting specialist such as In Car Safety Centre it could be really helpful to look at seats and get to grips with fitting them etc. properly.

Hope this helps somewhat!

Than you for your reply xx

I like the ones that spin as they are so much easier to get the child in and out of the car. You can also use them rear facing. I discovered on mumsnet that the Graco 'turn to me' is the exact same seat as the Joie 360 but much cheaper!!!!

Graco slimfit R129 is identical to a slightly more expensive Joie seat (since Joie took over graco) and is a good more budget option that some of the specialist seats mentioned by pp, doesn’t go to quite as high a weight limit rear facing but higher than many other cheaper options (22kg I believe).