Carseat Facings and shoes... unrelated.

Mere7706 · January 2009

When do you/did you move your carseat forward facing? I think I want to leave it rear facing for as long as possible. Tyler doesn't reach the back of the seat with his feet yet, so he's not scrunched up. I don't remember the weight to go forward though. Also- when are you supposed to get the hard sole shoes for baby? He's always been in soft soled and daycare seems to not make him wear his shoes all day anyhow. Just wondering what I'm supposed to do. Thanks ladies. I may be on and off a lot today- not much going on at work!

renee143 · January 2009

We turned Marlee front facing sooner than I had planned. ?We went on a roadtrip when she was 13 months, and I wanted to be able to turn around and reach her. ?Well, once she got a taste of it, she pitched a fit when I tried to turn back to rear facing. ?The law is one year and 20 lbs.

There are differing opinions on shoes, but stride rite goes from soft soled to flexible hard soled at size 5.?

MrsBrownsFan · January 2009

I am a certified carseat safety technician, and I always recommend leaving LOs rear-facing for as long as your seat allows. The law is one-year AND 20 pounds (so an 18-pound 1 y/o has to stay rear-facing until 20 pounds, and a 22-pound 10 m/o has to stay rear-facing until 1 year), but it is safer to leave them rear-facing as long as possible.

In our class, we had to watch some crash test dummies videos that showed the difference between impact on a forward-facing and rear-facing seat, and it was SOBERING. If you saw these videos, you may still have your preschooler rear-facing...it's amazing the difference!

mrsmikey · January 2009

I plan on leaving DS rear facing for as long as possible. Legally I'll be able to turn him around next week (he's 21 lb), but I'm going to wait. His carseat is rated RF up to 35 lb. I probably won't wait that long, but I'm thinking at least 18 months, maybe even 2. He's really tall though, his legs already have to bend now. So we'll keep him RF until he's basically sitting with his legs crossed.

As far as the shoes, I plan on keeping him in soft soled shoes until he's old enough and walking well enough to play outside. He'll move up to the toddler class at daycare in a couple of months and they'll go outside everyday (weather permitting), so I'll get him some kind of hard soled shoes then, probably Stride Rites.

Teacher_2_b_in_3 · January 2009

We turned Abby at one year because she had approached the height maximum for rear facing in the car seat that is in my car. She is 22 inches and 23 lbs.

As for hard soled shoes, she is wearing them now that she can walk.

smurfetteinred · January 2009

I'm leaving him rf as long as possible because it's the safest option. DS is 97% for height so his feet do touch the back but he's not in any way scrunched and it doesn't bother him at all. He doesn't mind car rides at all. Our seat is 35 pnds rf so I plan to leave him that way until he hits that limit or until he starts pitching some sort of fit about it but I don't anticipate that happening. He's 27 pnds now so I figure he'll be that way until he's over 2 unless he starts putting on weight suddenly.

As for the shoes - I had him shoeless until he started trying to walk then I went soft soled. As soon as he could walk we switched to hard soled and he was about 9-10 months but he learned to walk in the summer and was outside a lot and he's a big kid with wide feet and we really couldn't find many soft soled options anyways.

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