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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the whole coat-in-car-seat hysteria is entirely overblown.

In just a few short years, even when your kids are riding in booster seats, they will be relying on the car's seat belts which are a lot less tight, and will, by design (so that you can move around in the seat), yield several inches in a collision before locking in place.

This coat worry is yet another Mommy nonsense fear.

--mechanical engineer[/quote]

Their bones will be stronger once they're in booster seats. [b]Please go watch youtube videos of how much safer no coats vs coats truly are[/b]. [/quote]

NP.  That's not scientific, those videos are all absurd.  I agree with PP that if you put a coat on a child and put the child in a car seat, the child will be fine in a crash.

I can attest that my kids, in coats, were fine in our recent car crash.  The car was totaled but the passengers were all fine, all wearing coats.  [/quote]

I remove my daughter's coat in the car seat but I agree, those videos are completely bogus.  [/quote]

+1. The insanity of this stuff is really reaching fever pitch.

(PS- sorry about your accident PP).[/quote]
A regular seat belt will “lock” in an accident; the straps in a car seat will not and are only as tight as you make them. And, if a kid is moving all around in a regular seat belt, then they are not mature enough to use that instead of a 5-Point harness. The alternative is pulling the seat belt all the way out to engage the lock on the autoretractor so that it’s tight when they’re clicked in.  
If you’re going to use a puffy coat in a car seat, first strap your kid in without the coat, tighten the straps, then put the coat on and click them in without loosening the harness. [/quote]

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