September is the National Baby Safety Month- a pretext to figure out how we can keep our babies safe. As a parent, one of my greatest fears is that one of my children will meet with an accident and become disabled. Soon after my son Neel was born, we had bought a Cosco car seat for him to prevent such an incident.
Ash and I had researched extensively before we settled with this choice. We wanted a good quality car seat that didn’t cost us a fortune. The car seat that we bought for Neel was the Cosco Astra convertible car seat pattern. It had a 5-point harness with an up-front harness adjustment to keep our baby safe. The four harness heights allowed us to adjust the car seat as Neel grew up. The car seat was padded, contoured and also had two reclining positions for baby’s comfort. This ensured that he was comfy. I could keep Neel seated in the rear facing position even after he had crossed 1 year (which is recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics). All the features of the Cosco car seat met the Federal Motor Vehicles Safety Standards. Neel was always content and happy when he was seated in it.
Neel was around eighteen months when my daughter Nina was born. We now needed another car seat. We realized that Neel was growing up really fast. We were absolutely satisfied with the Cosco car seat so we decided to buy 
another one of the same brand. However, this time we decided to buy a car seat that could be used till Neel was old enough to wear the safety belt. Thus we bought the Alpha Omega Paloma convertible car seat.
The advantage of this car seat was that you could graduate from the infant mode (the baby between 5-35 lbs is seated in a rear-facing position) to the toddler mode (front facing position for toddlers between 22-50 lbs) to the booster mode (for children between 40- 100 lbs). Like the Cosco Astra, this car seat also had a 5-point harness, The headrest can be easily adjusted without re-threading the harness. It also has three reclining positions, an infant head support, toddler pillow and pivoting armrests to keep the child comfortable. We have not discarded Neel’s earlier car seat. His sister Nina is now using it.
Guest Blogger: Runa
Safety of Children lists car seat features that a growing child need for each year to be safe.
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