I've just discovered that we need a new car seat - although Bailey (just) fits in ours, after yesterdays 'adjustment' he has been upset in the car and today I discovered why, as it is now too narrow it is pushing his calves in which is pinching his skin near the knee where the cuff is...

Wiggs - what car seat did you buy? I am not ready to turn Bailey around to front facing yet, he is too little imo - but I doubt I am going to find a rear facing seat wide enough. I'll go out tomrrow and see what I can find but any experiences/experience with wider car seats would be appreciated
MummyNaomi - we had to have a different car seat for our DS, although I can't give any advice about the type of rear facing seat to buy I can say that we actually never brought a car seat. The hospital (PMH) set up an appt with Kids Safe and they rented us one for the entire time... only cost about $50 or so dollars plus about the same for deposit. It was part of the hospitals duty of care to not let us leave the hospital without a secure an safe method of travel for DS. A much better solution for us than buying a car seat that would only be used for a short time.

I'm not sure what state you are in but it might be worth investigating