Angle of rear-facing baby seat

[melbel]

If you mean use the recline function on the seat then no you should not use these rearfacing. rearfacing has the one angle and it locks in that position....the seats are not crash tested in the other positions rearfacing so you would theoreticaly be using your child as a crash test dummy. It is set at that angle so that the baby is forced back into the seat and the seat takes the maximum amount of impact force in a crash, if you change that you affect the impact absorpton capability. Also it will affect the ability of the rebound bar to sit perfectly flat against the back of the seat, actually I am not sure if you can alter the recline without disabling the rebound bar even? hmmm......not sure on that one. BUt IMHO not worth the risk.....My LO was quite happy still at 18 months in the reclined rear facing position...he was just turned forward facing last week as he hit 12 kilos and he actually doen't like it as he can't work out how to go to sleep sitting up...go figure! LOL....have you tried a toy bar or a mirror so you can talk to her?

[feeb]

Great post melbel, I agree completely with you.

Both of my boys have struggled with going to sleep in forward facing and do often look a bit awkward and they are in slighly tilted back setting as per person who fitted.

I turned both at 17 months, DS1 because needed seat for DS2 and DS2 because he was 12 kg.

[willow5]

If you mean use the recline function on the seat then no you should not use these rearfacing. rearfacing has the one angle and it locks in that position....Also it will affect the ability of the rebound bar to sit perfectly flat against the back of the seat, actually I am not sure if you can alter the recline without disabling the rebound bar even? hmmm......not sure on that one. BUt IMHO not worth the risk.....

Our seat doesn't have a rebound bar, so there was no issue there for us, I didn't take that into account when I made my original post. I definitely wouldn't be trying to modify or remove parts of the seat at all!! Also would definitely not be using the recline for FF for RF. Definitely not worth the risk!! The mirrors are great

[melbel]

If you seat does not have a rebound bar it is not a legal australian rearfacing seat...ALL rearfacing seats in australia must have a rebound bar.

[willow5]

Yep melbel, I know we imported to rear face longer after a lot of research. I've been looking at non Aus seats so long I forgot about the rebound bar.

[melbel]

ah okays that makes sense then!