26/09/2022
"Rear facing legs - let’s break it on down ⤵️ ⠀
Our adult perception leads us to believe the following:⠀
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'🤯 Their legs must be so uncomfortable⠀
🦴 Their legs will break rear facing in a road accident⠀
🙈 They have no room'
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What if I told you rear facing legs are way more comfortable and safer rear facing than forward facing? You’d laugh at me right….but it’s true!⠀
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➡️ When your legs hang off a barstool - do you leave them hanging or do you put the on the bar? You know it - you put them on the bar. WHY? Because if we leave them hanging the blood flow get’s cut off = sore legs! Rear facing kids always have somewhere to rest their legs and take the pressure off. Forward facing kids legs get sore from hanging and they often kick the back of your vehicle seat to try and wedge their feet on the pocket on the back of the vehicle seat to take the pressure off. ⠀
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🦴 Rear facing legs don’t break - why? Because their legs always follow where the head goes in a road accident. Rear facing child are thrown back into their car seat, as is their head and their legs glide back towards their head. Forward facing, limbs can break being thrust forward into the front vehicle seat under crash impact.⠀
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🚨 Newsflash guys - you’re not 4 anymore. Nor do you have the flexibility of a small child. Little people are like contortionists and get themselves into the most awkward positions all day and have not a care in the world. Their rear facing space does not affect them.⠀
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So….please don’t let YOUR adult perception of their legs affect keeping them in the safest position in the vehicle for as long as their seat allows. ⠀
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Rear facing is 92% safer."
(✏️📸:)
