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To ask whether a lie flat car seat will help car hating 6 wo

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Phuquocdreams · 06/12/2019 09:17

Have a 6 wo who screams and screams in the car (all of my babies have hated the car). I think she might have a little silent reflux and thinking car seat might be v uncomfortable. Has anyone found that the lie flat car seat is better for a car seat hating baby? I have a 3 hour car journey to do today (broken up into segments, I know she can’t do that long) and I think she and I might lose our minds, I would go right out and buy a lie flat if i thought it would help!

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GiveHerHellFromUs · 06/12/2019 09:22

Is it the car she hates or the seat? Because my LO will scream when I put her in the seat (or pushchair, she just hates being strapped in) but as soon as we're on the move she's ok.

tealandteal · 06/12/2019 09:25

If it is silent reflux, surely lying flat would make it worse? How long could you use it for and how expensive is it? My DS used to cry in car seat but stop once we started moving, then cry every time we stopped at lights!

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Phuquocdreams · 06/12/2019 09:26

No she’s not ok on the move. She used to be ok on the 10 minute school run, not any more. We did 2 50 minute drives with her recently, she screamed the whole way before passing out with exhaustion as soon as I took her out of the car seat.
She is ok-ish in the pram (used to be great but has gone a bit downhill in last week)

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DaffodilSunshine · 06/12/2019 09:26

I can't help on a general hatred of car seats but I thought reflux was meant to be better when more upright. So if it's that, I would have thought a lie flat seat would make it worse

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Phuquocdreams · 06/12/2019 09:29

Good point on the lying flat making reflux worse. Maybe she doesn’t have silent reflux. I’m afraid she cosleeps at night but she doesn’t have too much difficulty in the pram (well she screamed and screamed in it on Monday this week but then was ok again on Wednesday).

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Settlersofcatan · 06/12/2019 09:31

Both my babies hated the car but I think it was basically because they wanted to be held/interacted with rather than anything to do with the seat itself

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Phuquocdreams · 06/12/2019 09:33

On the school run she’s beside me. She actually did fall asleep at the end of today’s so maybe we need to rearrange the seats in dh’s car seat so I’m beside her

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GiveHerHellFromUs · 06/12/2019 09:33

Have you got one of the mirrors so you can keep an eye on her? Does that distract her at all?

Or can you attach some toys to the car seat? I know she's only very young but the colours may distract her for a little while

TheLovleyChebbyMcGee · 06/12/2019 10:26

yeah my DS had silent reflux and hated the car seat, but I don't think the 2 were associated, even when we got his reflux sorted at 4 months he hated the carseat and would scream in it on any journey longer than 5 minutes till he was around 8 months old.

We switched carseats around 10 months, still rear facing, but its much higher so he ca see more out of the window and that definitely helped.

BertieBotts · 06/12/2019 10:42

I don't think they can see into the mirrors at that age. We still have a mirror for DS (15m) because he is still in a rear facing seat but it's only been since about 9/10m he could see anyone in it. Before then we could see him but he didn't know he could see us.

I agree that a higher up car seat might be better to try out than a lie flat one - something like Joie 360? If her position is OK in it anyway. You will need to move to a bigger car seat at some point anyway so it probably won't turn out to be a waste of money.

But if she's settled beside you, put her car seat in the front, airbag off? Some DC find that better. It's whether it would be OK for you or a distraction.

TheLovleyChebbyMcGee · 06/12/2019 10:47

Ha Bertie, that's the exact carseat we have, its fab, and will do DS till he's around 4, its also suitable from birth.

BertieBotts · 06/12/2019 10:53

We have it too :) I think it's brilliant value for the price.

Winterdaysarehere · 06/12/2019 10:56

Try playing different sorts of tunes while you drive..
A bit of Cliff at Christmas may work wonders!!

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Phuquocdreams · 06/12/2019 12:21

Actually we have a joie 360, got it for my 3 yo. I should dig out the newborn inserts (we never used them - got it when he grew out of first car seat) and try her in it. I hope we haven’t lost the inserts!

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Phuquocdreams · 06/12/2019 12:23

Bertie, we’re going on a motorway today so I’m not so comfortable with her on front seat also she would be beside dh rather than me. She’s still not delighted being beside me on the school run although she did fall silent while staring at me today...

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BertieBotts · 06/12/2019 19:00

Oh great, defo worth a try if you can find them then!

Apparently rear facing in the front is no less safe than rear facing in the back, as long as you can disable the airbag.

BertieBotts · 06/12/2019 19:01

But if you can do it in the back that might work best anyway

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