Young mothers even at pregnancy have to think of safety of the kid in the car. After discharge from maternity hospital they should use car to get home. A children's car seat – a thing very necessary and irreplaceable. It can save life of your child at accident.
For transportation of children in the car the producers offer autocradles which will serve from the birth and about one year, and car seats which approach from the birth and up to 3-4 years. Let's look, than they differ and how to choose them.
The autocradle often is on sale together with a carriage. It is easy, has the cross over handle, it is possible without efforts to transfer the child in it. Often mothers use them as a rocking-chair or a stool for feeding. The autocradle is established against the movement of the car that at sharp braking the child did not injure cervical vertebras and the head.
The cradle has semi-lying or lying situation that is important for small children. The child is fixed in it by seat belts therefore on an extract prepare not a blanket, but overalls with "legs". But the autocradle will serve to you about 6-9 months until the child surely sits. It is necessary to buy a car seat later.
It Avtokreslokrepitsya in the car by regular seat belts, a back in the direction of travel. In a chair the child buckles up internal belts, rollers for support of the head sometimes are installed. For babies the chair bends on 45 °.
But for newborns with a small weight such universal car seats can be too deep therefore for them after all advise to get an autocradle. Car seats are very heavy, it is inconvenient to bring them home, it is necessary to leave in the car. It is also very inconvenient to take away the sleeping child from a chair.
How to choose?
car seat has to be breathing. It is very good if the cover can be removed from a chair for washing.
Always "try on" a chair on the child. For large children choose chairs deep and wide that even in the winter he was located there in clothes. For small or premature children choose chairs of the modest sizes.
Before purchase make sure that the car seat is compatible to your car. It is important that all fastenings ideally suited one another, and installation of a chair did not take a lot of time.