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Originally posted by tmdiva
One note for hand-me-down carseats: pay attention to the original date of manufacture. Carseats should generally not be used longer than six years from date of manufacture, and should be outright destroyed when they reach the age of 10. I'm pretty sure this is because the plastic degrades over time.
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I'm pretty sure it's because the car seat manufacturers want to sell more car seats. It's like the breast pump people who say you can get AIDS from a used breast pump. total bullshit. HIV won't survive more than a few hours outside a body, so there's no way that a pump sitting on someone's shelf is going to contain communicable diseases.
As for child seats, I'm also not persuaded that you need the full-on 5-pt harness up to age 8, let alone age 5 or 6.
