Willow - the medical insurance would be my biggest concern. TBH I couldn't care less about losing some points or even copping a fine if a policeman by some miracle knew that my kids' carseats weren't approved, but it would worry me enormously that God forbid we were in a horrible accident and my girls were injured that we wouldn't have their medical costs taken care of. You would hope that the right thing is done, but we all know how insurance companies love those loopholes.

Just another one of those decisions for all us parents to try and balance what is safe enough while doing the very best we can IYKWIM. I don't think any of us are happy with going with a "yeah, it'll do" kind of approach. We have spent weeks discussing car seats for our growing family and its been really tough to come to a decision. Doesn't help when you get people making comments like "Why do you worry so much about it. When you were a baby we just put you in the bassinet on the back seat. You were lucky if we did the seat belt up around it"