Orbit Baby G2 Car Seat Base
Orbit Baby G2 Car Seat Base
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Details & Specs
Orbit Baby G2 Car Seat Base

Expand the functionality of your Orbit Baby travel system by adding a Car Seat Base G2 for your other car.
 
Features:
  • Patented StrongArm™ knob allows for a secure installation in only 60 seconds
  • Designed for maximum side-impact protection, with a wide footprint and multi-directional retention
  • High-end materials and finish complement premium car interiors
  • Molded foam panels protect your car interior
  • For use rear-facing with Orbit Baby infant and toddler car seats
  • Orbit Baby Infant Car Seat and Toddler Car Seat dock at nearly any angle onto the SmartHub™ into the car for a convenient and back-saving motion
60-Second Car Seat Installation - Our patented StrongArm™ mechanism is the only one that pulls the seatbelts tight for you, so you can quickly and securely install this car seat simply by turning a knob

Back-Saving Interface- Our patented circular SmartHub™ allows you to dock Orbit Baby car seats into your car from nearly any angle

Specifications:
  • Weight rating: works with first generation and G2 Orbit Baby infant and toddler car seats; see car seat for weight rating with Car Seat Base G2
  • Car Seat Base G2 dimensions: length, from back to knob: 20.5 in (52 cm); width: 14 in (35 cm)
  • U.S.Pat.No. 7,338,122, 7,559,606, and D594,678. Other U.S. Patents Pending. European Patent Application No. 05751808.6.
  • Also available in Stroller Travel System G2 package, and Infant Car Seat + Base G2 package
  • Includes 2-year Limited Warranty
Car Seat Safety: Keep Children Rear-Facing Longer

Orbit Baby's convertible Toddler Car Seat and Base are designed for maximum Rear-Facing usage, to keep children safer longer.

For maximum car seat safety, leading scientists and car safety organizations (including the American Association of Pediatrics) all recommend keeping children rear-facing in their car seats for as long as possible. Because of these strong recommendations, we designed our Orbit Baby Toddler Car Seat with the innovative convenience of docking onto the car seat Base rear-facing, encouraging maximum rear-facing usage of our convertible car seat.

Why does the Orbit Baby Toddler Car Seat only dock onto the Base rear-facing, and not rotate forward-facing?

Regulations and testing requirements constrain what is currently possible in convertible car seat design. To reinforce the reality of these constraints, witness the fact that there are no convertible car seats that rotate both rear- and forward-facing on a base while still delivering a high child weight rating.

Orbit Baby opted to encourage rear-facing car seat usage through the convenience of our Base's SmartHub™ rotation, rather than restricting Base usage to forward-facing installations only, or eliminating the convenience of our Base altogether. We promote rear-facing usage by design because all empirical evidence shows that children are safer rear-facing, and supporting any measure of safety is Orbit Baby's first priority.
 
Convertible car seat instructions: rear-facing versus forward-facing. 
 
In parent research and interviews we have conducted, we found that the most confusing aspect of installing a convertible car seat is figuring out when it should be installed rear-facing or forward-facing. To clearly discuss rear-facing car seat safety, it is important to start with what is required versus what is recommended. In the case of rear-facing safety, leading recommendations go beyond existing requirements to increase the chances of keeping your child safe in his or her car seat:
  • Requirement: You must keep your child rear-facing if s/he is under one year in age, or under 20 pounds. For example, if your child is 13 months old and 19 pounds, then she must stay rear-facing. Or, if your child is 11 months old and 22 pounds, she must also stay rear-facing in her car seat.
  • Recommendation: Authoritative organizations (including but not limited to the American Association of Pediatrics and SafetyBeltSafe USA) all recommend keeping your child rear-facing for as long as possible beyond these requirements. Of course, you should only keep your child rear-facing within your car seat's specifications (35 pounds in the case of Orbit's Toddler Car Seat).  These recommendations try to focus parents less on when they could start using their car seat forward-facing, and more on when they should keep using it rear-facing.
Why rear-facing is safer
 
To learn more about why staying rear-facing beyond current requirements is safer, please visit some of sources listed below. The many sources are quite consistent, and the main ideas are summarized here:
  • A rear-facing child car seat position supports your child's head, neck, and back substantially better in the most common and most severe types of vehicle crashes. (Frontal and side/offset crashes account for 96% of all vehicle crashes.) 
  • In a rear-facing position, the entire car seat's shell and structure helps to spread out crash forces on your child's body, as opposed to having your child's body, with only partially developed muscles and bones, absorbing those forces as in a forward-facing position.




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