Rear Facing until Age 2!!

It has been over a month since the American Academy of Pediatrics revised their guidelines on car seat safety and I just wanted to urge my friends and loved ones take a second look at carseat safety. 


http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/carseat2011.htm


"In a new policy published in the April 2011 issue of Pediatrics (published online March 21), the AAP advises parents to keep their toddlers in rear-facing car seats until age 2, or until they reach the maximum height and weight for their seat."


The bare minimum recommendation used to be 1 year and 20 pounds to turn your child forward facing.  Now the AAP is finally getting their guidelines up to date with the minimums that car seat technicians have been recommending for years.  These days, combination car seats can rear face somewhere between 33-45 pounds.  They also recommend that when rear-facing is outgrown,