Hope nobody minds me posting some information aobut extended rear facing carseats.
As you will know by law all children under 9 months and 20lb must travel rearfacing in cars. From January 2013 the law will be changing so that all children under 15 months old, irrespective of weight, must travel rearfacing. The reason:
Rearfacing is 5 times safer in a frontal collision.
Some information can be found here:
http://www.rearfacing.co.uk/
Although extended rear facing group 1 and group 2 seats are not widely available in the UK they are becoming more widely available.
The in car safety centre sells a wide selection of these seats which start from under £200 and some of the seats go form 9-25kg (group 1 seats only go to 18kg) so they will last until your child is 5 or 6 years old. There are lots of other retailers too but I have put a link to this one as they probably sell more seats than any of the others and give fantastic advice over the telephone too.
http://www.incarsafetycentre.co.uk/cata ... aecerq4le3
Christopher's rear faces in a Besafe Izi Combi seat and Emily will move into his seat shortly (she is currently still in her Maxi Cosi Cabriofix) and we will be buying him a Britax Two Way Elite.
Rear facing group 1 seats are not like infant carriers, they are spacious just like a forward facing group 1 seat and your LO will have a fantastic view out of the side and back windows (Christopher's loves waving at the bus driver's behind us!). There is plenty of legroom too.
If anybody has any questions about extended rear facing I will try to help.
Yvette