Can You Put Baby Car Seat in 3rd Row?
Car Seats Serial #3 : Location
You lot are getting set up for your first babe, YAY! You selected your motorcar seat and know which direction it should face in the motorcar. Now you need to know where to put your car seat in the car.
The safest identify to put your car seat in the car (or for anyone to sit in the car) is the centre of the back seat.
Done.
(Wow, that was a short postal service. OK, I'll give you more…)
Where is the safest place to put a automobile seat?
A written report published in Pediatrics, showed for children newborn to iii years old and all installs being equal, sitting in the center rear seat is 43% safer than sitting on the side in the back. The rear eye position volition exist the furthest from any touch in any type of crash.
The researchers institute the most mutual location in the vehicle for a automobile seat was the rear passenger side (41% of parents put the kid'south car seat hither). We're not sure why and so many parents put your car seat there. Mayhap this is for ease of access and keeping an centre on the baby.
Nosotros often told new parents at the hospital, the heart is the safest. But
- if they couldn't get the auto seat to install properly in the center, or
- they really wanted to use LATCH to install but couldn't in the center, or
- in that location is a hump or too narrow of a center position to install a seat, or
- mom just had a cesarean and didn't experience she could lean over to put infant in the heart seat,
then to put baby on the passenger side. We recommend the passenger side in case you ever have to park on the street, you volition exist on the sidewalk side of the car putting baby in the machine seat.
Never install a rear-facing seat in the front seat in front of an agile airbag. Always continue children in car seats in the back seat unless absolutely necessary to accept it in front end, similar in a two-seater automobile.
When is the center NOT the safest location?
Assuming you tin go a good install in all seating positions, the eye is the safest.
If you cannot get a practiced, safety installation in the centre seating position, it is no longer the safest position. We actually want to reiterate this bespeak then let me say it another manner. It is more important to have a expert car seat installation than to be in the middle seating position.
If the eye seat is being challenging for y'all but you can become a skillful install in a side seat, install the seat in the passenger side seating position.
Note on LATCH
Oftentimes cars have LATCH for the ii side seating positions in the back seat. Many times yous cannot use ane lower ballast from each side to install a car seat using LATCH in the heart. (Every car is different and yous need to read the owner's manual for the vehicle.)
If this is the instance in your car, you can use the seat belt to install the auto seat in the center position even if information technology is a lap-but seat belt.
No, LATCH does not equal safer.
The purpose of LATCH was in hopes to make installing a car seat easier for parents. Personally, I think in many ways it backfired as it added more than options to misfile matters.
My offset kid fabricated it condom and sound in the eye only now I accept child number 2 on the way
There are two schools of thought here:
- Put the newborn in the center rear seating position as the infant is the most vulnerable in a crash.
- Put an older frontward-facing kid — assuming the older child is frontwards facing — in the center seat since rear-facing children are inherently safer in their rear-facing seat.
We are on the school of thought of number 1; put the most vulnerable, ie. youngest kid, in the center. A short lesson on crash dynamics which touch on this determination:
- The majority of crashes are frontal impact crashes.
- Being in the eye rear seat is well-nigh beneficial of the more rare just more dangerous side touch on crashes.
- Being in a rear-facing car seat is safer if the crash is forepart impact as the child's caput, cervix and back are all being supported during the crash. It would stand up to reason, the benefits of being in a rear-facing seat are less significant in a side impact crash.
There are often other variables involved then if there is any question, we recommend request a Child Passenger Safety Technician, preferably in person with your automobile.
Wait. I tin can't fit my baby car seat and my forward-facing convertible seat right adjacent to each other.
If you lot can't fit 2 seats right adjacent to each other, y'all will have to use the two outside seats. There isn't actually a preferred side for the infant as far equally crash safety is concerned. There is virtually no difference between commuter'due south side and rider side in crash statistics.
Ane thing you lot may think well-nigh is, once more, if you e'er street park. If you lot practice, yous may want to put the child who takes the longest to get buckled in on the rider side and so you lot are in the street with the door open for as fiddling time as possible. For instance, a toddler has to be put (or climb into — for those contained ones) the seat and become buckled, whereas a child in an infant carrier merely gets popped into the base already installed in the car. Patently the infant carrier is a quick open up the door, pop information technology in, close the door and you're out of the way of traffic.
Of course that's assuming the baby carrier fits backside the driver's seat in your car. Ugh, and so many variables!
YAY! Both my children have been condom in the back seat but HELP number 3 is on the way
Much the same answer as going from 1 car seat to two in your vehicle. The challenge hither often becomes whether or not 3 automobile seats will fit across the rear seat in your auto. There are many narrow car seats on the market and the RideSafer vests to help in this situation. (Click here to get more than information virtually the RideSafer Travel Vest. Psst, they are slap-up for travel or carpools too!)
Sometimes this becomes a puzzle to notice out which slice, ahem motorcar seat, fits next to which other piece, err machine seat and you lot tin still fit your hand in between to buckle the seat chugalug. My communication, don't attempt this game on a hot summertime day.
What if I take a third row?
Eye middle seat would even so be uttermost from whatever type of crash impact. In some vehicles the third row seat is over the rear axle, which theoretically could be provide some impact protection in a side impact crash.
Otherwise, same rules apply. Almost importantly, get a proper install. Ane thing to consider when putting kids in the tertiary row seat is how easily can y'all get back there to buckle them up. You can accept older, more contained kids can sit back there and put younger kids in the middle row.
What about my older kids who are not in a car seat anymore?
The back seat is the safer place to ride in the car for anyone. Period.
And so all children should remain in the dorsum seat of the automobile until they are driving. No really. They should. As best practice, CPS technicians recommend keeping kids in the dorsum seat until they are a minimum of thirteen years onetime. Yup, sorry tweens.
Next up: Car Seats Serial #four: Installation
By Amie Durocher, Creative Director at Safe Ride 4 Kids and certified CPS Tech since 2004
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