Carsick baby

[Mamabear12]

Unfortunately, our baby gets car sick. After only 15-20 mins of driving she vomited :( firstly I felt bad for the poor thing (just turned 1) and second I have emetaphobia. So it is stressful for me and i find it hard to cope. My old dc always complain about not feeling well in car rides, but never were sick. Now my third has been sick twice (we don’t often drive). But we will have to sometimes and I’m not sure what to do.

If your baby gets car sick, do you just keep taking them on car rides knowing the will feel sick and vomit?

Do you avoid car rides as much as possible?

What about when you need to travel?!

Anything to help the baby not vomit?!

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Forward facing seat, open windows, car sickness tabs if theyre suitable for her age.

Get an easily wipeable seat and put her in in a bib/overall to minimise mess.

I was always carsick on journeys over 20min. I think my parents just put up with it.

Fellow emmetophobe here.
I feel your pain.
Worh asking pharmacist if any meds suitable

2 car sick babies, now primary children...still car sick. Used to time driving when they were sleeping / napping. From age 4 you can pick up medication from pharmacy, it seems to help as in that they are not physically sick but sometimes they still say they are feeling sick.
Due to this we avoid driving as much as possible. I remember feeling sick in the car as a child but would usually lie down on the back seat (back in the day when there were no car seats) close my eyes and would start feeling better. Not an option nowadays and I don't want them to suffer so we limit car journeys to a minimum.

We live in a village so had no choice - 15 minute drive just to nearest Tesco.

Switching to a forward facing seat as soon as DD was legally big enough was the only thing that stopped it I’m sorry to say. She’s now completely fine, but complains of feeling ‘icky’ if she goes on a roundabout at the park.

When you can switch to forward facing it will help and when they are older there are medications. Even toddler years are easier because crackers can help.

For a baby, your best bet is cool air. There are even tubes you can connect to your cars vents to funnel air conditioning to the rear facing seat. Obviously in winter, just open the windows.

And do Try to limit travel. I’m 46 and I still get carsick. It’s a really awful feeling, especially when you are a child and your parents just want to keep to their plans and you just wish you could be home laying on the couch with a cool rag on your forehead and some ginger ale to sip.

Both DC were always complaining of car sickness after 15 minutes. I gave up the car. Live in a city so no problem really. But I feel your pain. Sorry OP it is hard but I couldn't keep putting them both through it.

Yea it is awful. I don’t want to put my poor baby through this. We don’t drive much bc we live in city. But we would need to drive to airport etc as we do fly a few times a year (obviously not now bc of the pandemic!).

I feel so bad for her :(