While marketed for safety, many of these aftermarket pregnancy seat belt adjusters are not recommended by vehicle manufacturers or safety experts.
Lack of Standards: Most of these devices are not regulated by government safety standards or independently crash-tested.
Potential Risks: Independent tests have shown that many plastic and metal adjusters can break during a crash, allowing the pregnant occupant to move too far forward and potentially increasing the risk of injury to the mother and the unborn baby.
Proper Use of Standard Belts: Safety experts universally recommend wearing the standard three-point seat belt correctly: the lap portion should be positioned low across the hips and under the belly, and the shoulder belt across the chest and to the side of the bump, never tucked behind the back or under the arm.