Installing Infant Car Seat Bases

Video Transcript

"Hi where Dan and Judy on behalf of Expert Village in this segment we are going to talk about installing a base infant seat and you can see that baby Kayla is seating in a very good angle right here. She is not trying to lift forward. We see often seats coming in like this where the baby is seating almost in a 90 degree angle and there heads are flopping forward like this and parents come in holding there heads back trying to figure out why they cant get the seat in right. Now the seat that you are using doesn't have a adjust foot or the foot is not enough again you must check the vehicle manufacture and the car seat manufacture instruction some of them would refer to using a tightly wound towel under the foot of the base here. You can use a towel like that or you can use a pool noodle like this and there are several varieties there is the thin noodle this is a noodle were the jacket make it little thicker. What you would do is you would put that under the foot in this case adjust it so you get your proper angle and then restraint it with the seatbelt. If you use a noodle though what happens over time this was a round noodle like the other as you can see now it has flatten out. What happens over time they compress and you have to check your base to make sure that it is remaining tight you might have to retighten it. We would go into that in another segment. "