Carseat
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Topic: Carseat
Posted By: Guests
Subject: Carseat
Date Posted: 03 November 2006 at 3:13pm
| Purely out of interest. How old are babies when they are in forward facing car seats? Just comparing to american friends thats all. |
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Posted By: tarn4
Date Posted: 03 November 2006 at 3:18pm
The new news is that they should be 1 now instead of 6mths.
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 03 November 2006 at 3:19pm
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Yep should be at least 1 ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 03 November 2006 at 5:43pm
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We had Andrew in the forward facing carseat at 9 months. The main reason was he was too big for the insert when the seat was to be rear facing and he was 9kgs at that stage (which was the weight on the instructions to be forward facing) and had very good control of his head. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 03 November 2006 at 6:55pm
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Reccommended 1 or after. But its whatever the guidelines are on your car seat as to when its safe to turn baby around. ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: Peace
Date Posted: 03 November 2006 at 8:13pm
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According to my Plunket nurse children should not be forward facing for the first year of their lives. Unfortunately (her words) it is not law though and generally it is around the 9kg mark that they can face forward.
Plunket are currently lobbying to get a law change as we are behind the rest of the world with this... In saying all of that I am in no hurry to face Olivia forward but if she is ready before 1 year old to face forward then I have no problems at all doing it. ------------- DD1 May 2006 DD2 March 2011 DD3 August 2012 |
Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 8:44am
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its 9 or 12 Kg depending on your car seat (safe n sounds are 12kg) or 12 month's which ever come's first. that is waht we were told Alan was 11 Month's when we turned him forward facing. ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 10:48am
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I turned Kiya around at 8 months, at that time as long as they were over 9kg and had good control of their heads my plunket nurse said it was fine.
We turned Josiah around at 11 months, he was just under 9kg but really bored facing backwards. As soon as we turned him around, he started loving going on car trips again. ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 2:12pm
Oh yep they seem to be all 1 year and older over there. I dont want to turn Ella around anytime soon means she will be growing up to fast 
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 2:21pm
| The older the better I think imagine if you did have big crash and your bub broke their neck. |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 04 November 2006 at 8:42pm
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Yep the older the better but I think you'll know when she's ready -------------  |