Car sick 12mo - tips please!

[flopsybunny45]

My dc turns 1 this month. We have recently moved her into her big car seat and she has suffered bad car sickness on the two most recent journeys. The pharmacy doesn't stock preventative medicine for under 5s and has advised giving dc flat coke! Any other suggestions would be most welcome... Thanks!

What does she normally do on a journey? Play with toys? Can she see out window? I think motion sickness is when you feel different movements than your body expects based on what you can see. So blocking/unblocking windows might help. Avoid activities where she has to look at something for a long time (dvds or books as she gets older) maybe music rather than toys etc.

Is she forward facing now? DS was less sick rear facing.

If youve switched her to forward facing, could you maybe look into getting a rearward facing seat?

Put the car seat in the middle if the back seat so that she looks out the front window rather than the side windows.

Thanks for all these suggestions - will try putting seat into middle. Think we may have to go back to rear facing as never experienced it with that x

Rear facing is safer for a baby anyway :)

My sympathies floppy- our daughter is exactly the same, sick in cars, aeroplanes, boats etc... So, given my parents live in Ireland and we live in England, we were desperate to find a solution. As you have found there are no quick solutions for 1yr olds. We just tried to time our journeys with sleeping times, made sure she ate something simple about an hour before driving, lots of stops, cool clothing, windows open a bit if possible and a bag with change of clothes, wipes, towels etc... just in case.
When she turned 2 we tried the travel sickness armbands from Boots and she has never been sick wearing them! Didn't think they'd work and worried she'd never keep them on but proved wrong on both. She loves her 'special bands' and so far they're working well, even with long driving and ferry journeys.