We purchased this seat for our daughter before she was born as we have small babies and it first smaller babies. She was 5lbs11oz and 18.75 inches at birth and fit very well. At just over 2 months of age we were rear-ended. Our daughter was completely safe, not a scratch in her, the only injuries she recieved was aggrivati9n of torticollis (she had torticollis from birth due to her position inutero) we replaced the seat with the exact same seat, down to the color. Second seat, she was under 7lbs still, fit in it perfectly, no longer needed the small infant insert to boost her. While loading her into the car, I tripped and fell while carrying the carseat with her in it, strapped in correctly. The carseat slammed onto the asphalt and slid a bit (damage shown in pictures) our daughter was completely unharmed. I am only 5'2" so it was not that far of a fall, but as soon as I realized I was going down I thought it I held the carseat higher I could prevent it from hitting the ground. (I could not because thats not how gravity or physics work) my older 2 kids immediately ran to help, checking on the baby as well as me. Once again baby was completely unharmed.