should travel in rear-facing car seats until they are two years old, scientists said yesterday.They found that children under two are 75 per cent less likely to die or be severely injured in a crash if they are in a rear-facing baby seat.Toddlers have relatively large heads and small ...
Car seats have recommended weights printed on them. If a 1-year-old outweighs the recommendation of an infant seat, parents should switch to a different rear-facing car seat that accommodates the heavier weight until they turn 2, the pediatricians group says. Luckily for parents, most car se...
Types of car seats by age The car seat your child needs depends on their age, size, and developmental needs. Infants and toddlers need to ride in a rear-facing car seat. This can be a rear-facing only infant car seat, a convertible car seat, or an all-in-one car seat. Note that...
The Governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Wolf, signed new legislature on Monday that requires children under the age of two to ride in rear-facing car seats, making them the fourth state to pass this kind of law (following California, New Jersey and Oklahoma). The new regulation is in line with...
In fact, studies show that forward-facing kids suffer many more leg injuries than rear-facing kids. The leg injuries to forward-facing children occur when the child’s legs fly up and hit the back of the front seat as the child and car seat are moving forward. This traps the child’s...
against a carseat manufacturer, it was found to have statistical errors and a re-examination of the data shows that there simply is not a large enough sample of injured children to show whether or not rear- or forward-facing is safer after age 2 in the United States. What does this ...
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This just in from yesterday--the AAP (American Academy of Pediatrics) now recommends that children should be rear-facing in their car seats until age 2. This puts a whole new spin for us Bunchers since it means our Bunch is now...
Mercedes vehicle with the Beltbag option, you will need to install your carseat with LATCH until the weight limits of LATCH are reached. Mercedes does offer Mercedes-branded carseats that can be installed with the Beltbags, but they have very low weight limits both rear- and forward-facing....
States with known rear-facing car seat laws in place were analyzed in a two-step approach in 2014. Simple fatality rates per 100 million vehicle miles were calculated with 95% Poisson CIs. A negative binomial count model for infant deaths was calculated, with state fixed effects, adjusted for...