To get you started, see our car seat group chart and read more about how to choose the best seat for your little one. Plus, our eagle-eyed car seat experts will check whether this seat affects how much space any front passengers have. To see which child car seats have soared through our lab tests, read our Group 2/3 car seat reviews. R44 groups 0+ (birth to 13 kg), 1 (9 to 18 kg), or 2/3 (15 to 36 kg) are based on your child’s weight, not height and are suitable for children from birth up to 12 years old.

When it comes to travel legislation across Europe, there are two safety standards that you should be aware of: R44 and R129/i-Size. It’s not foldeable (this may be why other brands no longer sell folding seats due to more recent regs) but is v sturdy. Cozy N Safe is a multi-award winning car seat manufacturer with our own manufacturing site and strong supply chain.Not only is this a popular rear-facing car seat, but it doesn’t need ISOFIX to be securely fitted in your vehicle, which is a huge plus if your car doesn’t have the connector points. In fact, in some countries, children tend to stay in rear-facing seats until they are four years old. Group 1 car seats are suitable from 9 months and will see your baby through until they’re 4 years old.

Some seats allow this from 9kg (approximately nine months) but we do not recommend you turn your baby forward-facing too soon. That's because booster cushions are not as safe as a high-backed booster seat with a full-length back and 'wings', which provide extra protection for the head and chest in a side-impact crash. But our testing has found that a seat that covers more than one group doesn't protect as well as it should throughout all three groups.We recognize that from day one parents will need a suitable newborn car seat to bring their baby home, before transitioning into an infant car seat to cater for growing children.

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Our thoughts are that a big brand wouldn’t sell them if they weren’t safe as it would be too much of a risk. When it comes to holidaying abroad, it’s hard to know what’s best to do about your kids and car seats. Now, although she’s still not at the maximum weight, her head is getting perilously close to the top of her Group 0+ Maxi-Cosi Pebble and she’s been less and less happy about going into it.That's because some infants are big for their age, so would be very young to be forward-facing at 9kg.