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Summary: Learn how to use the child car seat base to ensure your baby is seated at the right angle in this free video on child safety seats.

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Dan Furgang and Judy Slattery Dan Furgang & Judy Slattery have been Car Seat Technicians for the past two years. They initially started out with the intent to help educate the community. T... read more

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How to Use Infant Car Seat Bases

Hi I'm Judy and this is Dan on behalf of Expert Village we are first going to talk about now the infant seat which is the first seat that you would use when you baby is born. This is rear facing only seat it is designed to put in the base and to dine where you install the base. This part in the vehicle and this part is removable. This seat is used for convenience so that you can put this in your stroller, you can take in and out of the house, it is a good way to carry the baby in and out. It is very important with new borns because they have to head and neck control they must be at the proper angle and that angle is defined by the seat manufacturers 45 degrees that keeps the head from flopping forward and shutting off the air way. Unfortunately vehicle seats are designed for adult passenger comfort so they usually have a pretty good seat slope which is getting that angle so what you need to do is the type of base that you are using they have a adjustment like this, this is a spring loaded foot to where you can composite for that seat slope. This one actually has a built in level system as you can see it has a level for the proper position so you would be just positioning it with the foot raising to the point where the level on in this case it is between the two arrows. Then you would install it and then when your seat is in the base your going to have that 45 degree angle and you don't have to worry about the infant head falling forward.

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