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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've always thought age limits were ridiculous - it should be based solely on weight and height.  Same with the whole rear-facing infant seats.  The recommendation is rear-facing until age 2, but our kids were always far too big to remain rear-facing after about a year.  They were just big babies and it made no sense to try and squeeze them in backwards, so we turned them around at that point.  Age means nothing - it's size that is important.[/quote]

Actually age is very relevant. For example, even one-year-olds who are the size of two-year-olds still have the loose ligaments of one-year-olds.

"[i]This best practice [of rear-facing until two] results from the need to support the young child's posterior torso, neck, head, and pelvis and to distribute crash forces over the entire body. Developmental considerations, including incomplete vertebral ossification, more horizontally oriented spinal facet joints, and excessive ligamentous laxity put young children at risk of head and spinal cord injury. Rear-facing CSSs address this risk by supporting the child's head and preventing the relatively large head from moving independently of the proportionately smaller neck[/i]."

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/4/e1050.full

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Sorry, if my 12-18 mo. old is too large to fit in a rear-facing seat (i.e. his legs are smashed up against the back of the seat), then it's not safe to force him into it simply because of an age requirement.  It's safer to put him in a seat that is adequate for [b]his size [/b]and strap him in accordingly.  [/quote]

I'd much rather my 12 month old have a broken leg than a broken neck. Your child's legs being folded don't mean he/she is too large to rear face.

FWIW, I turned my 97% for height child at just over 3 and she begged to be turned back as her legs were dangling facing forward and she hates it still over a year and a half later. [/quote]

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