Anyone with kids knows how difficult it is to put young children in car seats in bulky winter coats. Innovative thinker and mother Dahlia Rizk was all too familiar with this challenge raising her children in the chilly winters of New Hampshire, so she decided to come up with a coat that would make parents’ lives easier.
Rizk’s new jacket design moves the zipper off to the side and has removable front and shoulder panels, making it easy to put the child in their car seat with their jacket on and move the fabric out of the way to make room for the harness.
Car seat manufacturers recommend that children don’t wear anything thicker than a sweatshirt when buckled in, but getting young children to take their jackets off on a cold winter day before they head into the car is no easy feat. With Risk’s design, parents avoid all this hassle.
Encouraged by fellow parents on social media, Rizk designed a prototype of her jacket and found a lab in Michigan to have it crash tested. Her company, Buckle Me Baby Coats, now makes jackets that perform similarly to tests with no jacket and are compliant with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.
The jackets cost between $79 to $150 and are available in sizes ranging from six to nine months to size 14.
