New law - Baby to be rear facing in car capsule until 12 months? Is this True??

[Nelle]

I've not heard that, but surely not - my first child was long and skinny, too tall for rear facing at 12 months...I had every intention of keeping him rear facing for as long as possible, but just wouldn't have worked, at least not safely.

[feeb]

DS is in a safe and sound meridian rear facing still at 12 and 1/2 months. He is 9.5kg

I do know it has a wg limit off 12kg rear facing for our model

[ladybird11]

I haven't heard anything about this - other than a lot of reports floating around saying why keeping the baby rearward facing until 12 mths is best...

I'm still waiting for the laws about seatbelts and children etc that were supposed to come out mid this year (where all children should be in a car seat until the age of 7, unless they're too tall etc)...

[*Belle*]

We have an SNS Compaq and have just turned it around now as Tara will be 12 months next week. She still fits in it rear facing and is 8kgs. The reason why we are turning it around as she always tries to lean forward.

ETA forgot to mention the straps are set in 3 positions, newborn, 3-6 months and 9-12 months so they are made that way for rear facing for a year. The seatbelt fitting specialist showed me this when I got it changed over from rear to front facing.

[rufalina]

We have the Sns Compaq too, and I had to turn DS at 11m as he was too long for rear facing. I kept him there as long as possible though for safety reasons... I will be using the compaq for my new baby too...

[Indadhanu]

Well I haven't heard of it and I know of the benefits of leaving them rear facing for as long as possbile but Jazz is 13kg now, so they'd have to make all rear facing seats go past 12-13kg...

Our seat went to 11kg, so we turned her a little wihle ago...

[Erin_25]

I would say we would have heard something if it were true, as they are not cheap to buy & it would need to be much bigger for some kids to do so. Therefore many would need a new seat...doesn't seem right to me. Yes it's safe & you do it as long as possible...but that's all you can do. Interesting to see if it ends up being true or not.
I would think the shops would say something.