As the name suggests, convertible car seats grow with your child, taking them from rear-facing infants or toddlers to forward-facing preschoolers—and sometimes right into a booster seat.

A Swedish professor, Bertil Aldman was inspired by the astronauts traveling in space, and he developed the first rear-facing car seat for toddlers. Now, using the type of baby seat also varies ...

I have a 2 ½-year-old daughter. She sits rear-facing in the car because it’s safest. My husband insists that she needs to be turned around so she can see everything and have more room for her legs.

BOSTON ― There was urgency at a legislative briefing held at the State House Wednesday by proponents of a bill that would require children to be strapped into rear-facing car seats until they ...

These kiddos need to be in a rear-facing car seat for as long as possible, but at least until age 2. Many of the new rear-facing car seats can handle kids who are as big as 50 pounds. Read the ...

The same goes for kids who went from rear-facing to front-facing car seats. Colorado State Patrol Trooper Kent Trimbach said children with long legs are much safer in a rear-facing car seat ...

Key changes include requiring rear-facing car seats for children up to age 2, forward-facing seats until at least age 5, and booster seats until at least age 8 or a height of 4 feet 9 inches.