{"id":1138,"date":"2007-12-31T09:05:45","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T14:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/31\/car-seats-and-winter-coats\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T09:05:45","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T14:05:45","slug":"car-seats-and-winter-coats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/31\/car-seats-and-winter-coats\/","title":{"rendered":"Car seats and winter coats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glen from the Ottawa Start blog <\/a>raised an issue earlier this month that has always bugged me.<\/p>\n

Did you know that car seats are not safe when your child is wearing a bulky winter coat? Seriously. <\/p>\n

I had just started poking around to find out if there has been any improvement in the safety ratings of those “cuddle bags” for the infant carriers (I used one for Simon and loved it) when Glen posted <\/a>his experience. He e-mailed Dorel, the manufacturer of his daughter’s Safety First car seat, asking what they recommend and they suggested that the coat be removed before his daugter is strapped into her car seat. <\/p>\n

Yah, right. I’m going to spend an hour getting my kids INTO their coats and whatnot, step out into the minus 20 degree wind, walk a dozen steps, and then strip the coat back off again so I can strap them into their car seats. And they will sit placidly with their coats covering them like blankets so they don’t freeze to death while the car warms up. And then we’ll do it all again in reverse when we get wherever it is we are going. Seriously?<\/p>\n

CBC picked up on the story as well, and ran this article <\/a>where Transport Canada confirms that bulky winter gear interferes with the safety specifications of the restraint belts.<\/p>\n

I remember reading about this and agonizing over it when Tristan was a toddler, and I simply can’t believe there hasn’t been some sort of improvement to the design of the restraint system since then. It’s bad enough trying to adjust the harness belts during those transitional months when you switch from winter coat to rain gear and back again, but to actually have your car seat deemed unsafe for almost half the year? <\/p>\n

Add this to the list of things that will be fixed when I’m elected Queen of the Universe. How do you deal with car seats and winter gear? (And for those of you who don’t have freezing temperatures, you don’t need to speak up today. With another 15 cm of snow in the forecast in an already record-breaking year, I don’t want to hear about places where you don’t need to wear a bulky winter coat!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glen from the Ottawa Start blog raised an issue earlier this month that has always bugged me. Did you know that car seats are not safe when your child is wearing a bulky winter coat? Seriously. I had just started poking around to find out if there has been any improvement in the safety ratings … Continue reading “Car seats and winter coats”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mothering-without-a-licence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}