Britax gushing!

It's a well-known fact that I obsess about some (ok, a lot of) things. Britax car seats are one of them. I feel strongly that car seats should be well-built and engineered (no Made in China stickers here) and that they should be Britax. No other options. My sisters have been less on board with this idea in the past, but gratefully, they have both humored me in this obsession.

Well, the other day, Talia fell on the ice while walking with her darling baby boy in his car seat. The car seat tumbled through the air and sidewalk, and she was mortified. She was convinced that her baby was injured or had whiplash or was dead, because he was not responding the way she envisioned. Instead of being hysterical like she was, the baby was happy as a clam, a direct result of the True Side Impact Protection that the Britax Companion had (and incidentally, we had fought about whether the car seat even needed) The end story is this: The "accident" could have been a real one, and we are both happy as clams that it wasn't. But it makes me sleep just a little better when I remember that my nieces and nephews are riding in the best car seats money can buy.

That being said, go here and enter to win a Frontier, Britax's most awesome harnessed booster seat!

For another post, another day: The benefits of Rear-Facing car seats. Please watch the entire thing. It will change all your excitement and eagerness to turn your baby's car seat around the moment they turn 1.