Putting 2yo in front seat of car???

[dontcomeatme]

I've discussed this multiple times on MN but we're at the end of our tether right now.
My 2yo DS is severely travel sick. Has been pretty much since he was born, we could never drive for more than 40mins to an hour at max and he would projectile vomit. We had to forward face him at 2yo which we desperately didn't want to do but he was choking on his sick rear facing and being in the laid back position.
We're now at the point where even a 20-25 minute journey is making him sick. We are washing the car seat that often we have bought a spare to use while one is in the wash, and as soon as one is clean the other is dirty 😭 I sit in the back with him primed with sick bags but it makes him hysterical just to look at them so I feel like I'm making him worse!
We've been to the GP multiple times now but they just say its one of those things 🙄 I'm ringing on Monday and I want an emergency appointment with a different GP, this level of sickness isn't normal. It is projectile! Comes out of his mouth, nose, absolutely covers him. He goes grey and feels like sh*t for the rest of the day 😢
Do they prescribe anti sickness meds for kids or do we have to buy them? Most of the ones I've seen online are for 4yo plus and I'm hesitant to give him them.
I am seriously contemplating putting him in the front of the car, with the airbags off. Is that insane? AIBU to think this is the solution?!?! He's 28months, 99centile height and weight. We seriously don't know what else to do!
We've started walking and getting the bus everywhere just to prevent the sickness but this isn't sustainable, we missed a hospital appointment last week because the bus didn't come on time 🤦🏻‍♀️
Any suggestions at all? What worked for your DC? Can the doctors actually do anything ? Do you think front seat would help? It always helped me as a child but this was the 90s, my parents shoved me up the front without even a booster seat.
Any advice is appreciated 🙏

@Just3ok I added an update

I’d be going to a supermarket car park or a retail estate on a Sunday evening and driving around on a few occasions to see what happens.

No point spending loads of time debating and pondering something if…. Turns out doesn’t help anyway

I would still have to drive him to the supermarket, by the time i got there he would be sick anyway? So that's not an option. And I've already trialled it the other day and it was helpful. This is a temporary measure until I can hopefully get some medication for him x

Op…. You drive there with him In the back

and then… move him

I didn’t clarify because I thought you would just assume that

I perfectly understood that. But it would be an absolute waste of time. It takes 20 minutes to get to our local supermarket, with him in the back for the drive there, he would already have vomited before we got there. Or at the very least he would already be extremely nauseous, so the experiment would be useless, all the data would be squewd by him already feeling sick.
The only way to determine if the front seat helps would be to put him in the front at the very beginning of a journey before any motion sickness had the chance to kick in.

Skewed 😅 wtf is that spelling

So 20 mins to nearest supermarket / retail estate… I didn’t know that 🤷‍♀️

Do you even drive OP?

you are always on posts saying how you don’t drive, no need to as you get public transport everywhere!

You have said multiple times on. Multiple threads that you never learned to drive and have no desire to, and that you have great public transport and just use that.

This just got weird. Very weird

dontcomeatme · 23/06/2025 08:47

I never learned to drive and I dont want/need to. I use public transport. My family was a 4 car household at one point I am not adding to that. My OH drives and I use the bus and metro with the double buggy. They don't need to drive at all.

one example of many

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I never stated on this thread that I drive. I stated that I sit in the back ready to catch the sick. I stated on this thread that my very close friend car pools for us using our car, because we are the only ones going to the nursery with a 7 seater. I didn't see the revelance of who was driving 🤷🏻‍♀️ doesn't matter who drives my DS is the one with travel sickness

You said you were a cautious drive 😆

We have had to depend on the car more since new baby was born as they have health issues and we need to get to hospital/doctors regularly and quickly.

Surely this is you driving?

I didn't actually, I said "we are all cautious drivers", meaning, everyone who drives my car 🤣

You're getting a bit obsessive over who drives my car

Nope. Never said that at all.

Maybe you should update all the threads where you’ve been lecturing posters about no one needs to drive 😆

🤷‍♀️

Indicates you need to drive because your DW works 12 hrs a day

Who else drives your car?! 😆

@Just3ok
If you need our life story -
My wife works 12hrs a day and normally the car would be with her, and I would use bus/walk. Which I still do. But since our 5 month old was diagnosed with some health issues weve been in and out of hospital constantly. If he crashes while my wife's at work I need a way to get him quickly to the hospital.

She now leaves the car at the house, and if needed, either my very close friend, his nana, my mother in law, or at a push my neighbour drives the car. Because 1, I cannot drive and 2, although it makes sense to just use their car in an emergency, as I've already said, DS is sick so often I felt guilty him being sick in everyone's car as ita not their responsibility to clean up after him. Plus the car seats are already fitted in ours so quicker to just use that.
Satisfied?

I really never expected to have to put all of that information on a thread about motion sickness. How bizarre are you.

I would have had issues (although not to this extent) as a child and had issues with my eyesight and frequent ear infections. I would be inclined to go back to a different gp and ask specifically for an eye test and for someone to look at whether this is a problem with his inner ears that the motion is disregulating.

Sure OP 😊

You're not a very nice person are you ? Thanks but no thanks.