Choice of car seat( car seat) and its operation

• Make your child's first trip safe by buying and correctly installing the car seat before taking the child home from the hospital.

• Decide where to place your child. Theoretically, the middle of the rear seat is the safest place for an infant in a child car seat. In practice, if a parent is traveling alone with a child, he often looks up from the road to turn back and see that the child in the backseat is all right. If you are easily distracted, it is better to place the child in the front seat. Unless you have no other choice, do not leave a small child in the seat, which is turned upside down, alone in the back seat of the car. The child will be unsafe outside of your field of vision, and specially installed mirrors, allowing you to see the child's face turned back, can distract you too. It is better to put the child in the front seat, but never place the child in a rear-facing child seat in the front seat of a car equipped with an emergency air bag. The front passenger seat is of a normal configuration, flat, with a seat belt having three attachment points, safer and more convenient for family trips than the bucket seats of sports cars.

• Place the child car seat only on the seats that are turned forward.

• Read the operating instructions to properly attach and fasten the seat belt. Check if your car seat can be used with those seat belts that are in your car. Tighten the seat belt tightly, and then check its reliability by trying to tilt the child seat forward. If you manage to turn it over, tighten it tightly or attach it differently. Use the latch( supplied with the latest car seat models) if the seat belts in your car are easily undocked;otherwise the child seat will not be attached securely. Do not let the shoulder of the seat belt through the holes in the child seat. Automatic seat belts fix child seats not securely. Regularly inspect the seat belts and locks for wear. In addition, check that the child seat is well inserted into the seats of your car. Seats in some cars have such an unusual contour or slope that not all child seats can be permanently attached to them.

• Install the child seat at the correct angle. If you put it almost vertically, the baby's head may fall forward;if too tilted, the back of the child seat can not hold the child in the event of a collision. Some child seats have a correct position indicator.

• Maintain the baby's dangling head, especially in the early months. You can use curled towels, diapers or buy special pads( liners) for car seats. From the folded children's bag( sling bag), it turns out to be an ideal, in the form of a horseshoe, a prop for the head of a small child in the car seat.

• In order not to burn the infant's skin, cover the plastic or metal parts if the machine has been standing under the scorching sun for a long time. The soft upholstery of the child seat( cover) protects your baby's skin from hot or cold surfaces, and also provides the baby with softness.

• In cold weather, if your car seat does not have a boot, place a thin blanket on the seat and cut holes in it to let seat belts and buckle pass through.

• Do not hold the child in the car in a cloth bag( backpack).Always put the child in the seat. If the child is filled with a hysterical cry, it is better to move out of the way,