Rear-Facing Down Under

Raising awareness in Australia of the important safety benefits of keeping babies and toddlers rear-facing in the car for as long as possible. Rear-facing is FIVE times safer than forward-facing for kids under the age of 4. Rear-facing protects kids from sustaining spinal injuries in a frontal collision. Keep babies and toddlers rear-facing to the maximum rear-facing weight/height limits of their car-seat. Spread the word!
Please join our Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rear-Facing-Down-Under/161037697252424?sk=info
Please sign our petition to make rear-facing toddler seats available in Australia:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/australia-needs-type-d-rear-facing-toddle...
This video has been blocked in some countries due to soundtrack copyright. Please click on this new link to view our video with the soundtrack edited:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8rDwYyPMDs

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[RearFacingDownUnder]

Website is "Go Petition".

Petition is "Australia Needs Type D Rear-Facing Toddler Car-Seats".

[buffanau]

can u post the link of the petition please



[RearFacingDownUnder]

@buffanau

The link is now in the video description.

Thanks for your support!

[TamarinCarrett]

this is FANTASTIC!! thank you for showing other mums that this CAN be done in Australia!!

[jaidanchaseashtoneli]

<3 love it! My gorgeous little superstar.

My 14 month old is only 10kg, so I think a LOT of kids can fit in their seats until almost 2 :) My friends little boy fit RF in my seat and he's almost 2.

[rach7985]

We have our 23 month old(13.5kg monster) RF she is not at all uncomfortable. We were recently traveling in Australia and had to turn her round because silly us thought that Australia would have seats to accommodate her. She HATED it. I think her legs dangling was bothering her. Everyone should at least have the choice as to what they want to do

[amandaandian2004]

My daughter was about 3.5 years before we turned her. She would still be rear facing if I could get a restraint to accommodate!

[jasminema]

great video hopefuly before too long Australia comes to the party and allows/manufacture carseaats with a higher RF weight limit

[gilfillans]

@TamarinCarrett oops yes it was 12 kilos! That's still the weight many 2 year olds are though (just not mine) :)

[LikeSheHas]

the music sure does suck, but the video itself is great. Thanks for uploading this!

[TamarinCarrett]

@gilfillans well done! but for future reference rear facing seats are only tested with a P1 dummy, which is 12kgs. For Forward facing they are tested with a P6 which is 22kgs.

[TamarinCarrett]

it won't let me post the link!!!