Very tall 14 month old - UK

[Claire799]

Hello, my son is almost 15 months old and is very tall for his age, off the charts. He weighs 28 lbs. he is currently using a maxi Cosi Tobi and has only two more harness height settings before it will not go any taller and there is no way he will fit in a stage one seat until the age of 3.5. I am very concerned that he will be too tall for the seat before he is heavy enough to move to a high back booster. I am also not wanting to use a normal seat belt due to reduced levels of safety and the possibilyu of him undoing the seat belt, but the only seats available with a higher 5 point harness weight limit are rear facing only sold at a few retailers. I don't like anywhere near any of them and needing 3 seats (one for my car, one for dads car, one for nans car) this is not practical.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

 

[Adventuredad]

At 14 months old your child should sit rear facing, if possible, for at least another 2-3 years. A rear facing seat is 500%, or five times safer. Rear facing is especially important in the early years since head of a child is large and skeleton soft and poorly developed.

There are a number of rear facing seats which are compact and have a tall seat shell. Many of them have a 25 kg rear facing limit and can accommodate "normal" kids rear facing to around age 4-6 years.

Since your child is big and strong we can likely exclude Isofix installed seats since the maximum rear facing limit is 18 kg.

The RF seats vary a bit in size etc. so it would be helpful to know what cars you are using?