Car Seats

Babyroad offers a variety of car seats, including infant capsules, convertible car seats for growing children, and harnessed booster seats, all meeting stringent safety standards.

Car seats are a restraining device that secures your child to protect them whilst you’re driving. To legally travel in your car with your child, depending on their age, they need to be secured within either a rear-facing child car seat, forward-facing child car seat, booster seat or an adult seatbelt.

The child car seat must:

• Be appropriate for your child’s size
• Be correctly installed in your car
• And be properly fastened and adjusted to fit your child

Infants and Toddlers

Type of Seat – Rear-facing capsule or rear-facing convertible car seat.

All infants and toddlers should ride in a rear-facing seat until they reach the highest weight or height allowed by their car safety seat manufacturer. Most convertible seats have limits that will allow children to ride rear-facing for up to two years.

Toddlers and Preschoolers

Type of Seat – Forward-facing convertible or forward-facing booster with a harness. 

Children who have outgrown the rear-facing weight or height limit for their convertible car seat should use a forward-facing seat with a harness for as long as possible, up to the highest weight or height allowed by their car safety manufacturer. 

School-Aged Children

Type of Seat – Harnessed booster seat or booster car seat.

All children whose weight or height exceeds the forward-facing limit for their car safety seat should use a belt-positioning booster seat until the vehicle seat belt fits properly, typically when they have reached 8 – 12 years of age. A child younger than 13 years should ride in the backseat.

General Guide

It’s always safest to keep your child in the car seat that’s most appropriate for your child’s size, regardless of age. Therefore Australian law also allows for the following:

• Children who are too small for the car seat that’s specified for their age group can stay in their current seat until they grow into the seat for the next age group
• Children who are too big for the child car seat that’s specified for their age can move to the seat specified for the next age group

The shoulder height marker on car seats shows when your child is big enough to start using a particular car seat, when you can convert the seat to the next use, and when your child is too big for the existing seat. If you’d like advice about moving your child into a different car seat, visit the professionals at Babyroad today.

Choosing the right baby car seat depends on your child’s age, weight, and height, as well as your vehicle type. Our expert team can help you select a car seat that fits your child’s needs and provides maximum safety and comfort.

Yes, all car seats available at Babyroad comply with the latest Australian safety standards, ensuring the highest level of protection for your child.

A baby capsule is a rearward-facing car seat with an in-built harness and is the legal requirement for babies under six months of age. Rear-facing infant car seats are designed to sit in your car in the rear-facing position only, as this is the safest position for small children to ride in.

Unlike other types of car seats, capsules can be easily taken in and out of the car as a carrier and some are even compatible with certain prams. Baby capsules have the shortest shelf life, lasting approximately six months. 

Purchasing your baby car seat from Babyroad in Perth means you’re getting a product from a trusted retailer known for quality, safety, and expert advice. We offer a wide selection of car seats to suit every family’s needs and provide ongoing support and assistance.

Booster seats are designed to provide side impact protection, but their primary function is to correctly position the vehicle seat belt to safely restrain the child. It is the vehicle seat belt that is the actual restraining device. 

A booster seat is also forward-facing, but is usually slimmer than a forward-facing car seat and is used with an adult seatbelt rather than an in-built harness. This style of seat is the last you’ll need to purchase for your child before they transition to an adult seatbelt. 

Choosing a car seat for your newborn is one of the most important things you’ll do before your baby arrives. By law, you will need to have a properly installed car seat in your car before you can take your baby home from the hospital.

There are many different brands and types of car seats available, and it will take time and effort to decide which is suitable for your child. For a newborn, we recommend selecting a car seat from our baby capsule range.

While choosing the correct child car seat for your family is incredibly important, the most vital step is actually the installation. No matter which car seat you choose, it is crucial for the safety of your child that it is installed correctly as installing one incorrectly practically negates the use of the seat entirely.

A car seat that’s installed properly will not budge – not even an inch forward or to either side.

All car seats sold in Australia need to meet mandatory safety standards. The minimum legal requirements for using child car seats in Australia are based on age:

• Children under six months must use a rearward-facing child seat with an in-built harness
• Children aged six months up to four years must use a rearward-facing or forward-facing child car seat with an in-built harness
• Children aged four years up to seven years must use a forward-facing child car seat with an in-built harness or a booster seat with an adult lap-sash seatbelt or child safety harness
• Children aged seven years and older must use a booster seat with an adult lap-sash seatbelt or child safety harness, or a standard seat with an adult seatbelt

If your child is too tall or heavy for their age group’s restraint, you can move them to the next-sized seat.

Legally, children need to be suitably restrained, and if a child aged seven or over is too small to fit comfortably in an adult seatbelt, then it’s safest to remain in a booster seat. 

We recommend that a child passes the ‘five-step test’ to wear an adult seat belt, usually when the child is 145cm tall:

1. Can your child sit with their back against the back seat?
2. Are their knees bent comfortably over the front edge of the seat cushion?
3. In this position is the shoulder belt across the middle of their shoulders?
4. Is the lap belt low and sits across the top of their thighs?
5. Can they stay in this position comfortably for the whole car trip?