Winter Car Seat Safety - What You Need to Know

By:  Trudy Slaght

Have you ever done something that you knew wasn’t the safest, but you felt you had no choice?

When my daughter was a baby, I used a thick cuddle bag in her infant seat. I knew that it wasn’t recommended, but living in Alberta, I felt there was no other possible way to keep her warm in the winter. I had done my research on car seats. I had read my car seat manual. I was careful to keep the harness properly tight on her, and I knew that it was safest to keep her rear-facing as long as she fit the seat she was using – but I felt there was simply no way to avoid using a cuddle bag and still keep her warm.  ....read more