What Is The Best Car Seat?

The best car seats for you and your baby are the ones that fit your lifestyle and budget

. All car seats sold in the US have passed crash tests for safety. How safe a car seat is for your child depends on a few factors, such as the size, height and weight of your child. Also there are difference between a rear facing seat and a forward facing seat. The rear facing seats are considered safer, but can only be used up to a maximum height/weight depending on manufacturing specifications. Finding the best car seats can be simple once you decide which category your child falls in.

First are the infant carriers or baby seats that are rear facing and can hold newborn babies from 5 pounds to 22 pounds, and heights up to 29". The best car seats have a 3 or 5-point harness system, which are considered safer than an overhead shield. To allow easy access, many infant car seats have bases. To provide proper head and neck support, the seat should be set at no more than 45 degree. For safety reason you should not place the best car seats in any seat containing airbags. Also the child must remain in a rear facing seat until he is over 20 pounds and over one yr old. You should place your child in a larger rear-facing seat, if he is over the weight limit before reaching 1 year of age.

Convertible car seat are often considered the best car seats because they can be the most economical. Some models can go higher, but most usually hold the child rear-facing up to 35 lbs. There typically is a large selection of convertible seats to suite your style preferences. Keep in mind, for safety the best car seats are required to be rear facing until the weight limit is outgrown or the child's head is with in one inch of the top of the car seat.

After outgrowing the rear facing seat, they move up to a booster seat. A booster seat is needed to boost your child to the appropriate height where the seat belt can be properly positioned, because seat belts were designed to safely restrain adults not children. Two typical types of boosters are, a high back and no back. Studies have shown the best car seat boosters are the ones with high backs because they offer better protection in side impacts. The factors to determining when a child is ready to ride without a booster is not weight or age specific but more when the seat belt fits properly. It all depends on the design of the vehicle and size of the child. We have on our website a 5-Step Test to see if a child is ready to ride without a booster (look in the resource box for link).

Did you know that even the best car seats expire? To find out when they expire, recommendations about buying used car seats, how to properly install your car seat, and where the safest seat to place your car seat and more important car seat information, please visit us online.

by: Raechel Ramsey

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