Wits end travelling in car with DD

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DD is 19 months and is constantly sick in the car recently, no matter how short the journey. She coughs and whatever she last had to eat is thrown up.

Has anyone got any tips for dealing with this? Both prevention and also any good covers. I put muslin clothes all over her but it’s obviously still really messy.

Editing to add she faces backwards in her car seat and my car is a VW golf.

Used to travel with an old ice cream tub with a lid to put on it when my kids were small. Absolutely no books or screens. Keep the car cool.

You sound unsympathetic toward your poor DD.

Get those car sickness glasses, they work amazingly. They are white and filled with blue liquid that moves and tricks the brain into thinking you are moving. They 100% work.

personal sufferer here even as an adult. So many more options as age progresses. Mostly, do limit travel. It’s an absolutely miserable feeling.

Get her as upright as is safe for her age.

get the car cold. Blast the air conditioning. The front seat passengers should be freezing. I can not emphasize the importance of this one enough. Opening the windows isn’t the same as the noise makes the nausea worse. Blast that ac.

dry food. Let her have access to snacks, even if it makes a mess in the car. Being able to nibble helps. To this day as an adult I keep both a dry snack and hard candy to suck on hand at all times. With a child this young you are going to be limited to dry snacks.

do consider forward facing early. It makes a difference for many children. I am a proponent of extended rear facing. I kept my dd rear facing as long as we could, but she didn’t inherit my awful travel sickness. She only got sick on extremely long drives and we could combat that.