Almost every parent has a similar memory: buckling their tiny newborn into a car seat, walking out of the hospital to the parked car, and carefully securing the car seat into its base in one of the back seats. Driving home with your baby – whether it was 10 minutes away or an hour – felt like the most nerve-wracking ride of your life. I remember picking out the car seat that would carry our babies safely home. My husband and I did a bunch of research online, asked friends and family for recommendations, went to a speciality baby store to see the various makes and models in person, and watched a YouTube video to confirm we had, in fact, installed the rear-facing car seat correctly. Following all these steps felt like an important rite of passage into parenthood. After all, if we weren’t taking our child’s car safety seriously,…