Research supporting extended RF?

cevamal

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Talking to our family doctor recently he said there's no research supporting extended rear facing. :eek: He still gives the AAP recommendation of two years, but just in talking about it (he's a friend) he said that there was no research supporting it.

Given all of the support here (and the new AAP recommendations) that has to be wrong, right?

Can someone point me towards something to pass along to him?
 
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bree

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Talking to our family doctor recently he said there's no research supporting extended rear facing. :eek: He still gives the AAP recommendation of two years, but just in talking about it (he's a friend) he said that there was no research supporting it.

Given all of the support here (and the new AAP recommendations) that has to be wrong, right?

Can someone point me towards something to pass along to him?

If you check out this blog post, it includes links to several sources of info about extended rf, including the research study showing that kids 1-2 years old are 5 times safer rf than ff: http://carseatblog.com/5168/why-rear-facing-is-better-your-rf-link-guide/
 

Phineasmama

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There was a research paper in 2000 or 2001 in which the AAP said that car seat manufacturers *should* look at making seats that can rear face a 45 lb 4 year old :)

Hopefully someone has the link for it because I think I bookmarked it on my old computer :(
 

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