My aunt puts her 2 week old baby forward facing in her car.?
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 at
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Their spine and neck simply cannot cope with the impact if there is even the slightest knock – one simple bump could kill the baby.
It is not only extremely irresponsible, it is illegal and frankly, I hope she gets caught for being so damned stupid.
If you hit the brakes you could snap your child neck if they are facing forward and have weak neck muscles.
HER HEAD CAN FLOP FORWARD AND CUT OFF HER AIR SUPPLY! Do NOT let her do that ever again! Unless she wants to find her baby dead!
1. It’s illegal for children under 12 months and 20lbs to be forward facing.
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKIeExpDLDA and http://www.cpsafety.com/articles/stayrearfacing.aspx
In most states its not legal to do that. It says right on the car seat that my son has to be 22 lbs AND 1 year old, not either or….
yeah – if she has a crash with her baby facing forward – the baby will be flung out of the windscreen, or if the airbags are on in her car with the infant carrier in like that, and she has a crash, the baby will suffocate.
if she has the carseat in the front seat with her the airbags should be turned off also…
Call the police on her, they will come and ticket her and explain to her its illegal and dangerous.
maybe after the police scare her she will do the right thing.
Because they don’t have the neck strength to hold their head up properly yet for one, and for two, if she gets into a crash, say goodbye to your nephew, because he will most likely be internally decapitated.
I hope you are joking and no one is that uneducated regarding child safety these days. It is illegal, and at that age, if she even stops quickly, the child might get whiplash because of the undeveloped muscles. Rear facing positioning, permits the seat, rather than the infant, to bear the brunt of the impact during an accident. The current suggestion is to keep your child rear facing to 35lbs or more, if possible.