My eyes have finally started getting better. YAY! Thanks for all the tips ladies. Although, Elle, what on earth did you mean with the breast milk comment. Is one supposed to put that in one's eyes???
On the whole carseat issue, I did a little bit more reading and came to the conclusion that we would stick with the Britax for a bit longer.
#1 - According to the American Association of pediatrics, in 2000, there were 539 deaths of children under 5 in motor vehicle accidents. Half of those were not restrained at all. I think that's a pretty low number (approximately the same as the chance of being struck by lightning). In fact, according to the NHTSA stats, only 81 infants under 1 were killed in auto accidents while restrained.
#2 - If all those car seats truly are that bad in high speed crashes, why have I *never* heard about it?
#3 - the sites that folks mentioned that bring up some very valid points about the CR testing: they will not release their methodology so no-one else can duplicate their results. They don't make any comparison to the real world, so it's hard to say what their results truly mean. And, apparently they don't test the car seats in cars (I guess that would get expensive), but using a sled contraption. How does that mimic the crumple zones etc. that cars have?
And then, LOL, CR retracted the whole damn thing! Bastards!!!
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I heard about the retraction, too! Way to freak people out and cause a panic!
Glad to hear that you're feeling better.
I saw this on the news the other night. Glad you're feeling a bit better.
I can't belive that they did all that 'damage' then retracted the information. I wonder how many people when out and bought new seats immediately because of the information? Ugg.
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