subject: The Importance Of Booster Seats For Your Toddler [print this page] I'm going to center on booster car seats for a moment. These are designed to keep your child safe when they are too small for your car's safety belts but too big for a baby or convertible car seat. Take note, for small kids, there are child care seats, but we won't discuss that.
Combination car seats booster seats get bigger with your baby. There car seats come with a 5-point harness that consists of two shoulder bands, two hip straps and a crotch strap and they all clip together to hold your baby in place to better protect kids under 40 pounds.
After 40 pounds, they can work as belt-positioning boosters. Kids weighing greater than 40 pounds might not need a combination car seat. They can go into a standard booster only seat, that protects by setting the adult safety belt to fit the kid properly.
Belt positioning booster car seats (seats which properly situate the car's seat belt over the child's hip and shoulder bones, instead of his ore vulnerable neck and stomach) are also available in low back and high-back versions. Some even come with a back that could be removed.
High-back models provide expanded polystyrene or expanded polyproplen (a crash-protection foam for their head restraints and side-impact protection. Overall, advisors say children ought to stay in a booster car seat till they are at least 80 pounds. If you should crash, children only secured by the car's seat belt could slip under the belt, which is the reason experts recommend a booster car seats with a belt positioning system to lift the child in the proper height to safely utilize the automobile's lap/shoulder belts.
According to ConsumerReports.org, the only reviewer that performs independent crash testing, they provide a book known as 'Baby Bargains' which covers virtually every type of baby gear you would require.
