Car seat question - WWYD?

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

I think not matter what your DS needs the harness anyway, what are the age/weight limits on those new rules, i can't remember.
I'm sure a normal booster with H harness would be suitable for now.

[Arimeh]

I thought you could only use the H harness with the lap belt? Where his car seat is positioned (and can't be negotiated cos of the way our car is and age of children) he will be in a lap sash belt - and I thought H Harnesses couldn't be used with those?

DS is about 106cm tall - so not overly tall, his sister is our "Basketballer to be"

[kawazuki]

id go booster seat for ds google the H harness things. im sure they can be used with lap sash belt.

can he be moved to the side seat?

[nickle730]

Yep, you just use the little metal thing-a-me-bob on the belt to turn a lap/sash belt into a lap belt. I'd definitely get a hard plastic moulded booster for DS though, not just a bum-seat or a styro number. Safe 'n sound do one (blahh... I have one but can't remember the name!!) and so do InfaSecure. Much safer than the other according to the latest ICEP testing.

ETA Hi Liner, that's what it's called!!!!

[Arimeh]

Yeah I was going to go an infa secure one - vario max or something like that? Can't quite recall off the top of my preggo brain...

[Pretty Butterfly]

The H harness should come with a metal funny shaped clip, the lap and sash go in to it, and come like a sash to thread through your H harness.....

[Arimeh]

For some reason I thought the H Harnesses were only tested to 18kg - is that not true?

[LimeSlice]

You can use the H harness wherever I think, ours you can anyhow (although we don't use it, Charlotte uses the normal seatbelt) and given most cars these day have lap/sash seatbelts across the entire backseat, it would seem silly if nobody made an H harness for boosters you could use.

I would move him up, and follow your initial plan.