Give me all you have on switching bucket to convertible

Unregistered · Jan 19, 2009

So Im noticing more and more moms thinking their babies need stay in an infant bucket seat until theyre ready for a forward facing seat.

I know this isnt correct, its about the weight and height of the infant. My son outgrew his infant seat by 6.5 months because his torso was so long. Im also trying to let me friends know the benefits on extended rear facing carseats. My son over 2 before he reached our carseats 30lbs limit and we had to switch him (2nd sons car seat is for 35lbs! yeah!).

Anyone have some good info I can give people so theyre not leaving their poor babies in infant bucket seats too long?! Anyone know any good websites or something

spokesgirl · Jan 19, 2009

I don;t have any links to information about infant versus convertible, but I have come across exactly what you have come across. There was a woman in my mom's group who turned her kids around at 8 and 9 months old respectively because they had outgrown the bucket and she had no idea she rear face the convertible carseat.

I helped her out with that one and directed her here and then posted in our mom's forum about the benefits of extended rear facing.

In fact, some of the info on extended rear facing would be good to pass along because there are often pictures of kids rear facing in convertible seats.

http://www.car-safety.org/rearface.html

sparkyd · Jan 19, 2009

There are lots of resources out there, but the place people have to look to decide when their infant seat is outgrown is in their user manual. All seats are not the same. Some go up to 30 lbs while others are as low as 20 lbs. An infant seat (or any seat) should absolutely not be used past the limits of the seat. Weight should be determined with the child fully clothed (boots and all) and a rear-facing seat is outgrown by height when there is less than one inch of hard shell above the child's head. Like this:
http://www.car-seat.org/showthread.php?t=30201

As for ERF, again their are lots of resources, but these two are currently my favourites:
http://kyledavidmiller.org/pages/4209/Car_Seat_Safety:_Rear-facing_is_safest.htm
http://www.joelsjourney.org/

I was going to link to Transport Canada's site for overall info, but it seems they've changed their website and the new car seat info isn't nearly as good. Actually, it's kind of bad.

ETA: And of course, this site is #1 for anyone who is interested in learning TONS about car seats. And, naturally, for asking questions.

mommycat · Jan 20, 2009

TC info on carseat stages:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/safedrivers/childsafety/car/index.htm

The link at the bottom of the page gives you a printable brochure:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/safedrivers/childsafety/car/cartime/pdf/tp14337e_2006.pdf

Also:

Information Notice on Carseat expiry with chart of individual manufacturers' seat life spans:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/safedrivers/childsafety/notices/2007c10/menu.htm

Crossborder shopping is not the best deal:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/safedrivers/childsafety/notices/2007c09/menu.htm

Third party after-market products:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/safedrivers/childsafety/notices/d200401/menu.htm

sparkyd · Jan 20, 2009

mommycat said:
TC info on carseat stages:
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/safedrivers/childsafety/car/index.htm

OK, that is really weird. That was the link I was looking for last night at home, but what I found was a different version and it was pretty lousy. This was what I found using the "A-Z index":
http://www.tc.gc.ca/roadsafety/tp/tp13511/menu.htm

I think this latter version is newer and I fear that the older but better version above will soon disappear. The new one (if I'm right about that) is really quite bad.

I think I might post about this in another thread because I don't want to hijack this one...

mommycat · Jan 20, 2009

It does look like your link has a newer date.

I find my links by going to the main TC website and then following links for:
road transportation
road and motor vehicle safety
safe drivers and passengers
child safety

The A-Z index also has a link to this page. Under C, follow "Child safety in the car" as opposed to "Car Time 1-2-3-4".

mommycat · Jan 20, 2009

Both the 1-2-3-4 Brochure pdf and the "car time stage 1" brochure have a date of March 2006. I am not sure that the 1-2-3-4 is supposed to replace the other info? Maybe it's just a shorter, brighter version for those who are put off by all the (very useful) text on the car time pages? Does anyone know what the deal is with all this??

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