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Summary: Make your car safe for infants; learn about the various types of child restraints and which are best for your child in this free video on child safety seats.
Dan Furgang & Judy Slattery have been Car Seat Technicians for the past two years. They initially started out with the intent to help educate the community. Their passion fueled them...read more
"Hi we are Dan and Judy on behalf of Expert Village we are going to talk a brief introduction to the different types of child restraints that are out there. Judy is going to start with you. The first one I want to talk about is your base infant seat. This seat is design for babies this specific one is for weights for 4 pounds to 22 pounds which is the most common weight. There is a couple of seats infant seats with bases that goes to 30 pounds. But most of them only go to 22 pounds and they are use for rear facing only rear facing. And the seat would actually come out of the base to go in the stroller in the house, wherever you are going to go restraints and such and the base stays in the vehicle. This type is for convenience. If you have more then one vehicle a second base makes it really convenience you can install a base in each vehicle and just trade the seat from base to base. This seat this is another base for another seat and ti is the difference between this base it has its own lock off. So it doesn't matter if your vehicle actually has a lock in system or not. The belt would come through here, you would tighten it and close this and lock it like that and that would be really good for a vehicles that are1996 and older because they don't have locken magnesiums in there belts and we would talk about that in a later segment. The second seat that I want to talk about is the seat that you graduate from your infant seat which goes to 22 pounds to your convertible seat and when you graduate the seat first it would be shown in a rear facing mode and it will be this way. Again the driver would be out this way and the seat would be in rear facing. This would go into approximately 30-35 pounds rear facing and then the convertible hints the name convertible changes and it goes to a forward facing like this and the driver would be in front and that would be forward facing. This seat right here goes to 40 pounds, some of them go to 65 pounds, some goes to 80 pounds in a 5. hardness. "
eHow Article: Car Seats for Infants