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New AAP guidelines for car seats

shawnsweetieshawnsweetie
in Cincinnati Babies

The AAP has finally changed the guidelines for car seats.

 The new recommendation for rear-facing is  to 2 years old or until the seat it outgrown by weight (usually between 35-40 pounds) or height (head within an inch of the top of the shell).

 Also, the new booster seat recommendation is 4'9 (usually between age 8 and 12).

 Just wanted to pass that along :)

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Re: New AAP guidelines for car seats

  • MissbollingerMissbollinger
    This is posted in our DR's office.  DH has wanted to turn DS2 around for a while now but I have insisted and put my foot down about the issue.  It is also recommended by AAA.
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  • angelina477angelina477 member
    Wow this is great. I have friends who look at me like I have two heads when they see Carm RF.
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  • ML*ML*
    Are these requirements or recommendations?  There is no way DD would have fit rear facing until she was two unless her legs were all scrunched up.
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  • Jessica&BrettJessica&Brett

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    Are these requirements or recommendations?  There is no way DD would have fit rear facing until she was two unless her legs were all scrunched up.

    It's ok for their legs to be all scrunched up. In an accident, it would be better to have a leg injury than a spinal cord injury!

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  • KristenBtobeKristenBtobe member
    imageJessica&Brett:

    imageML*:
    Are these requirements or recommendations?  There is no way DD would have fit rear facing until she was two unless her legs were all scrunched up.

    It's ok for their legs to be all scrunched up. In an accident, it would be better to have a leg injury than a spinal cord injury!

    Ditto.

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  • adamsbabbleadamsbabble member
    imageJessica&Brett:

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    Are these requirements or recommendations?  There is no way DD would have fit rear facing until she was two unless her legs were all scrunched up.

    It's ok for their legs to be all scrunched up. In an accident, it would be better to have a leg injury than a spinal cord injury!

    We just recently turned Charlotte in one of our cars (just b/c in that car, our seats don't fit properly with her turned RF) and she scrunched her legs up.  She didn't seem to mind at all, in fact, in the car that she's forward facing she still scrunches her legs up even though she doesn't have too--force of habit.

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  • Christine.LouieChristine.Louie
    Thanks for the info I passed along to some of my family and friends.

    Btw, I feel like with a 4'9" booster seat reco I would have been in one forever...like...until I was 13 or 14 lol!  I also have a cousin that is just 4'10" as an adult.  Yeah I come from a family of shorties...my poor unborn children will be in car seats forever!
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  • ML*ML*
    I'm not talking a little scrunched up, I'm talking completely folded legs for the 1 hour ride to and from grandma's every day.  She was way off the charts for height and weight and while I agree that you should do what is most safe, there is no way we could have swung rear facing until 2. 
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