Car seats??

[PeytonsMummy]

Okay so i have each different person telling me something different about installing car seats.

The public hospital said i msut have a capsule not a car seat! And now i am going with a private hospital and my ob has said a car seat facing the rear is fine and as long as i am confident its in properly its fine.

Then i have other mums telling me that i have to get in installed by Kmart tyre and auto or someone like that?

I just need a straight answer?

What happens if i get it installed and then if i want to change it to another car a week later do i have to get it professionaly installed again?

Please tell what im suppose to do

[LimeSlice]

Capsule or Rearward facing car seat suitable for infants are both perfectly acceptable.

You may put it in yourself - follow the instructions it is NOT difficult nor unsafe to do it yourself.
You can choose to get it fitted, but it is completely UNnecessary


HTH

[Rivlas]

Have a look at your QLD roads site. They have all the info you need.
A capsule or rear facing seat are both acceptable.
If you need talk to your local mechanic or Maternal Health Nurse or even the local police.

[Snowy Love]

You can get the fitting checked for free by Qld Ambulance or they can fit it for you (not sure of the fee)- just need to ring up & book an appointment. But no, it doesn't need to be professionally installed & its fine to use a rear-facing convertible seat.

[monday]

I had mine professionally installed for my first child as I wasn't entirely confident that it would be in correctly. With my second child we installed it ourselves as we had taken the other one in & out lots of times & had the confidence we were doing it the right way. Did you know that most large chain baby companies will install them for you for a minimal fee?

As for the capsule, that's not true at all. Legally your child needs to be in a rearward facing seat, capsule or otherwise doesn't matter.

[Ozziehoffy]

You can get the fitting checked for free by Qld Ambulance or they can fit it for you (not sure of the fee)- just need to ring up & book an appointment. But no, it doesn't need to be professionally installed & its fine to use a rear-facing convertible seat.

This is a really greyish area to be honest... re: Qld Ambulance. You can't actually book for a fitting of your own seat/capsule. They only take bookings for installation of capsules you are hiring through them. I actually asked the guy when I was returning the capsule for Elijah if he could check my seat fitting as it didn't seem right to me (and it wasn't - DH hadn't done it correctly)... now he did do it, but not overly happy as they are back to back bookings for capsule installations as it is, however he wasn't going to let me leave with it not installed correctly either. He said they aren't allowed to charge to install or check owner provided seats/capsules because they aren't allowed to make a profit.... STUPID GOVT.. could use money from charging people to fix the roads or something... anyway, they are already flat out without the extra traffic it would create if they did do this.

There are places which do installations and yes a lot of them I believe are tyre install places. Hope this helps in some way. Oh and no you don't have to use a capsule either, rear facing Aust approved seat is fine.

[Smoke Jaguar]

If there's no anchor point, you need to get an approved person to install that (most cars have them already), otherwise, you can do it yourself. Just make sure the back of the carseat isn't touching the back of the front seat, and if it's a split-back back seat that you have the car seat next to a door, and not in the middle (as in the case of a hatch back that has two seats come down together IYKWIM).

[Visitor7]

This is a really greyish area to be honest... re: Qld Ambulance. You can't actually book for a fitting of your own seat/capsule. They only take bookings for installation of capsules you are hiring through them. I actually asked the guy when I was returning the capsule for Elijah if he could check my seat fitting as it didn't seem right to me (and it wasn't - DH hadn't done it correctly)... now he did do it, but not overly happy as they are back to back bookings for capsule installations as it is, however he wasn't going to let me leave with it not installed correctly either. He said they aren't allowed to charge to install or check owner provided seats/capsules because they aren't allowed to make a profit.... STUPID GOVT.. could use money from charging people to fix the roads or something... anyway, they are already flat out without the extra traffic it would create if they did do this.

There are places which do installations and yes a lot of them I believe are tyre install places. Hope this helps in some way. Oh and no you don't have to use a capsule either, rear facing Aust approved seat is fine.

Not entirely true. I have had the child seats for our girls fitted with the ambulance here, and they actually advertise that they will fit child seats for free, even if you're not hiring from them. Even the baby stores around here promote getting child seats fitted with QAS.
Here, there is a guy that does child seat fittings all day long out of the one of the sheds at the ambulance station. And they don't charge.