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    Default How long should my child ride rear facing? What about ages for other seats?

    Here's an even newer blog with all the AAP recommendations from 2011... http://carseatblog.com/9416/confused...ns-start-here/

    http://carseatblog.com/?p=5168

    This is a great article in carseatblog with all kinds of links showing why it's safer to rear face long beyond the bare minimum of age 1 and at least 20 pounds.


    Here's a chart for how long a child should ride in a seat of each type (.pdf) http://www.carseat.org/Resources/651_Basic.pdf

    How long in a booster? http://carseatblog.com/?p=3966 Discusses the oft-mentioned Five Step Test for seatbelt readiness.

    What if my car doesn't have head restraints? Do I still need a booster for whiplash protection? Yep, Britax Frontier/85 is by far the tallest out there, check this out, even though the car does have headrests... http://carseatblog.com/?p=5671
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    Yay! Thank you for posting this.

    BTW, I was the one who posted that DH wasn't convinced. Well, when I mentioned that we could tether the RA and MA, he said, "I've already given in on that. We don't need to discuss it anymore." So I guess score one for me (and for DD). Then on Monday DD's ped said to keep her RF.

    So there.
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    Cool. Just put it on my facebook.
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    I saw this on car-seat.org this morning and put it on my FB status right away.

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    Thanks, just posted to my FB too!
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    Awesome, thanks! Just posted on Facebook too!
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    I hardly ever post on FB, but this prompted me to!
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    AWESOME.

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    Awesome! Thank you, Heather (murphydog77), for writing the article, and Julie, for posting the link here.
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