There was a thread a while back about young babies hating the car. I definitely have one of them. You only have to turn him around with the door open and he screams.

He is also very very long...the size of a not so short 12monther. Consequently the head hugger in his seat is really really squooshy. It's on the highest level and is really hard to get his noggin in there. Often he gets so distraught he ends up pulling his head out of it and has it balancing on top.

So I took them out of both of our prams - and all of a sudden he is happy as larry to sit in them.
He has very good head control, but is way way too much of a light weight to even think about front facing.

There is nothing I can see that says it has to be in there (the head hugger I mean)....
what do you think?