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I was sent a scan of a slide of me in my car seat from when I was a baby. Dad had bought a nice safe new 1979 245GL Volvo to protect his family.Quote:
Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus
I was in a cane basket on the back seat :D
I assume I got the same treatment in the G60 Patrol we had.
Actually, it was easier out in the bush when LS was a baby. Now he can run around & get into strife whereas before, where you put him is where he stayed :D.
In a previous car my older brother got the front seat as a baby. Dad removed the front passenger seat and built a frame to take the basket. Then put a flyscreen sort of mesh over it to hold him in if they crashed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus
Must not have wanted to do that to the new Volvo.
once the baby has some head control its all good.
when we started taking alex out it was in a rewards facing seat with a light shoulder harness to help stop him rocketing out in the event of a front on and a strap over his blankets to stop him from coming out in any other event.
he loves it and Im gravely dissapointed that I couldnt take him and connie to the cape in big red.
We had our middle child out on day trips at only a few months old. Current bub has been to ill for any trips other than Hospital.
Our car seat is one of those convertables. just get extra head support like scouse said and they will happily sleep or wake and enjoy it.
My parents went off to a parachute maker and got them to sew up a mesh guard 1" super stiff webbing strips sewn about two inches apart. This went over the basket and attached to another strap or two, that ran down the back of the seat and bolted at each end to the seat belt mount.Quote:
Originally Posted by Utemad
I had a harness, over both shoulders and around waist in the same stiff webbing, it attached to another vertical strap, and could slide up and down the strap.
Dunno where I got the obsession with car seats from.:angel:
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Originally Posted by Bushie
Absolutely. We have been out 6 or more times with our baby Zoe. She is now 7 months old and has already done calcup dunes twice, the powerlines track in perth, plus other outings.
My wife is an occupational therapist and has some inkling of whats happening inside her head. Violent shaking of the head is not advised, but with appropriate padding you can prevent this. Ironically its probably the touring side of things that tends to be worst, with the repetetive corrugations hammering away at the car. The real fast stuff up over dunes has to be managed, ie don't go balls to the wall.
The likes of the extreme stuff like powerlines on a wet a muddy saturday in July, is not so bad cause we just crawl it, ie everything just happens in slow motion which is ok, with again, appropriate padding and support around her head.:)
On the up side she is probably the easiest to mamage of the three kids, (the others are 5 and 8) as she just smiles, eats, (necessary feeding stops), and sleeps.
Have edited this post say, that good brand, fully reclined rear facing baby seat, in the middle of the back seat will protect and minimize the movement of the car for her.
cheers
Nick
Oh yeah, upper end of the Safe and Sound range - Royale and something beginning with P - have significantly better padding than the other models.
Ours is a SafenSound Meridian. Has some sort of fancy head protection thing but I think it is for when it is a forward facing seat. This must have come about in the last few years as my sister has the same seat but 5 years old and it doesn't have this feature.Quote:
Originally Posted by abaddonxi
It has so much padding though that it is a PITA to put the straps on a 7lb baby.
Just googled it. Meridian AHR and Platinum AHR in the convertible seat range. The same seat except Platinum has speakers, a special colour and and a better seat protector. They both have the Active Head Restraint since I think 2006.
I love the ingenuity of our parents trying to make their babies safe. So much easier to go and buy the seat though.