Dan’s Car

Posted on 12/10/2005 by



Dan’s Carseat

Originally uploaded by Sara_Cameron.

Dan’s car (Mitsu Diamante) has a built-in car seat in his car. We had never used it until this weekend. We decided to try it out and she LOVED IT. I think she liked facing the right direction, she wasn’t looking at the back of a chair and a mirror- like in my car. It was very exciting. The directions on the car seat says it is good for kids from 20 to 100 pounds! That seems a bit large but who knows!

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  • lnstryker

    not to be a poopy head, but technically babies are supposed to face backwards until they are 20lbs AND one year. Safer for their necks i guess. Im a big stress case abouy that kind of stuff (sorry)

  • Amy

    I was about to say the exact same thing as the previous comment. They are supposed to be both over 20lbs and 1 year old. I know it sucks because Junior would prefer to be forward facing since he’s a big guy but he’s still got a few more months to go.

  • Martha

    There is no LAW regarding the infant age/weight for car seats only recommendations. The laws only apply to the getting out of the car seat altogether. I feel that you as a parent must be the one to decide what is best for your kids. My sisters youngest would have been facing backward until he was well, way beyond “neck ready” becuase he was a small kid.

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    Plus, if your car has a cool built-in car seat, how are you supposed to resist using that?

  • Amy

    I wasn’t trying to offend anyone. I was told with my first that they HAD to be backward facing, but believe me I would much rather forward facing. My son is 8 months old and already almost 25 pounds and is too tall for his infant seat.

  • Martha

    No one was offended..just having conversation.

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    Ya, don’t forget blog commenting rule #1 – if something sounds offensive, it probably wasn’t meant to be.

  • Amy

    I am new to blogging thanks for the advice. :-)

  • Sara

    Avery is freakishly strong too!

  • Oi

    Tat beautiful baby is way too young and small for that “carseat”. Please, for her safety, put her in her rear facing car seat until she has outgrown it. Here’s a bunch of good links for help with carseat info, from recall pages, to when to safely turn baby forward facing:
    http://www.inventiveparent.com/state-laws.htm
    http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/childps/Contacts/index.cfm
    http://www.carseat.org/Recalls/recall.shtml
    http://www.parentsplace.com/babies/safety/articles/0,10335,240282_263876,00.html
    http://www.aap.org/family/carseatguide.htm

    Have a great holiday and again, that baby is beautiful, help keep her safe=)

  • Leah

    Your baby needs to be a year old *AND* 20 lbs to be in a forward-facing carseat. Please put that baby back in a rear-facing carseat to keep her safe!!! You’ll be able to use the built-in carseat soon enough!

  • Amie

    She needs to be rear facing. I know all about big babies, lol. My son was 20 pounds at six months, but he remained rear facing until 15 months old. The only reason I switched him then is because his legs were starting to get bunched up like a pretzel.

    Rear facing is MUCH safer in an accident.

  • Martha

    Not to argue…but these are all recommendations, not laws, just so you all know. I strongly dislike when people try to enforce their own personal feelings upon others children. Sara, you are a smart and safe girl. You can figure it out.

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    Not to offend anyone, but if the rear facing thing is based on the physics of how safe the child is during an accident, then I don’t see how it makes a difference how old they are; should just be physical size. Also, is this a law or a suggestion?

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    Hah, Martha and I just commented at the same time on the same post without knowing it; great minds think alike.

  • Sara

    Thank you for your support, I appreciate it. We only tried out the built-in car seat to see how it worked! Please do not call CPS, we do own and use a car seat, and yes-it is rear facing.

  • http://dancameron.org Dan Cameron

    Since I’m the driver, you better hope I don’t see any of you driving around because rear facing or not I might just T-bone you.

    Seriously, most of you guys saying it’s not right for our child to sit in the seat are the same people giving your infant soda,smoking in the same room or neglecting them some other way. So maybe if you were the Jesus of child care then you could say something after this comment that would try to persuade our own parenting skills.

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    I’m suspecting that last one wasn’t actually Sara…

  • http://freepressblog.org JaredB

    Excerpt from one of the links above:

    The NHTSA now recommends that children stay in appropriate car seats through 8 years, 80 pounds, or up to 4’9″.

    Just in case anyone was wondering why these things aren’t taken very seriously sometimes, there you go.