Baby car sickness advice?

[DanielMummy]

We've just been on holiday to Wales and my 9 month old was carsick both directions about 3 hours into the journey. This is the first time this has happened, although he has been in the car for long journeys when he was about 2 months and 5 months okay. Any tips as to what we can do to try and avoid this in future? Also as its such a long journey, when and what should I offer him to eat/drink as that may have been a factor? I assume he's too young for car sickness pills. I used to suffer badly myself as a child but I'm fine now except for flying, so I always take Stugeron when I fly. He hasn't been in a plane or boat yet, so I don't know if those will affect him similarly too yet.

Is he in a forward facing car seat

Is he otherwise well ? Perhaps he overheated or just needed a break or a drink. Don 't assume it was anything more than a coincidence atm. dd had reflux as a baby and still gets travel sick from time to time.

Ills - He's in the reverse facing seat position, with a mirror to look at. He would have still been in his lying flat carseat position last time we travelled long distance. But it won't be long before we have to buy the next size carseat, which I think is forward facing.

Lizs - It happened on both journeys a week apart. On the journey back, it actually happened in the services rather than in the car, after we had given him his first mouthful of his meal.

I know my sister with her 4 year gives him plain biscuits to eat during a long journey as it stops him feeling sick but wouldn't suggest you fed a 9 month old baby in a car. Other things she does is has the windows open and doesn't let him look at books etc. Another friend found things improved when she moved her child onto a front facing car seat and they tried to avoid windy roads. Sorry can't be more help.

No idea if they would work on such a young child but the accupressure travelbands are meant to be very good and ginger too.

Ills - Windy roads could be a factor. Thats where it happened on our way there. Our previous long distance journeys have been almost entirely motorway, but we were going to near Aberystwyth and there's no motorway for the latter part of the journey.

JennT - I think I'll try introducing the Organix gingerbread men. They are supposed to be 12-month plus, but he's quite advanced with his fingerfoods as we're partly doing BLW. And I'll try buying the accupressure bands. I wonder if he'll just pull it off, the way he does with his sunhat though.

Sorry, forgot to ask. Do you buy the travelbands from somewhere like Boots?

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You can definitely get them from Boots. The gingerbread men sound like a good idea. The youngest medication I have come across is from age 2.

Thanks Bozza

Windy roads definitely a trigger - even for ds who usually is fine and well used to long journeys on alpine roads. Do be careful about projecting your fears onto your ds though. MIL gets travel sick so when dh started to as a child it was a big deal and became a self fulfilling prophecy.

Thanks Lizs