We've always heard to turn our kids around from rear-facing to forward-facing when they are 20 pounds and at least one year old. Well, here is an excerpt from the AAP's release:
There a great post here by El, who is a child passenger safety technician. She has several helpful links off of her post.New research indicates that toddlers are more than five times safer riding rear-facing in a car safety seat up to their second birthday....
Toddlers should remain rear-facing in a convertible car seat until they have reached the maximum height and weight recommended for the model, or at least the age of 2.
We had just turned Isaac around last week (at 14 months) and were thinking we were conservative to wait so long. I will be telling Scott that he's going to have to turn that thing back around now!
