Baby suddenly getting my car sick in new seat

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My 10 month old has suddenly started getting horribly car sick coinciding with getting a new isofix car seat as he maxed out his old Joie one (non isofix). Seat is rear facing Axkid One and was really expensive as we wanted one that stays rear facing for a long time 😫
He is obviously sitting higher now which I thought might be the issue but goggle tells me sitting higher should be better.
Does anyone have any tips for dealing with this or ideas of cause?? 🙏🏻 He’d never been sick before the new seat and now it’s every time. It’s so awful and I can’t take him out alone.
The seat doesn’t go forwards and I want to keep him facing backwards.

Bumping this because I’m desperate for advice 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

My son started getting sick in his isofix car seat every single time at around 2yrs, I found putting a sunshade over the window the kind you can still wind the window down with helped, we did try the anti sickness bands but he just kept taking them off, in the end having a non isofix car seat seems to have helped but he still says he feels sick on longer journeys it's a nightmare to have them being sick every journey, you have my every sympathy! and not sure what the answer is think maybe mine just grew out of it perhaps or whether the non isofix did help or not 🤔 but I always had sick bowl change of clothes wipes and towels in the car and tried not to feed him too much just before especially dairy as seemed to make it worse

Kwells for kids when they're old enough xx

Good choice of car seat. Remove headrest so better visibility out of rear window. Black out/sunshade side windows.

My friend swears by the travel sickness bands, defo worth a try.

Has the new car seat happened at the same time the weather has got warmer, as I find if I get into a warm/hot car I feel sick every time. So maybe a sun shade to help? Crack the window in the back a little to help with fresh air?

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I’ve had to spin my 14 month old forwards. I’ve got the Joie 360. She was vomiting within 10 mins on every single car journey, she actually choked on one occasion, it was so scary! I had to stop on the hard shoulder and get her out, slap her back.. cars whizzing past at 70 😭 And my elder DD has a horrible habit of throwing up when she sees baby sis being sick. So I had two vomit covered children on most car journeys 😷

I tried air con, the window, blacking out the windows, ginger biscuits, not eating and drinking .. there is nothing you can give an under 2 medication wise, I asked my doc.

I know it’s less safe but we’ve had zero sick since age has faced forwards. She’s gone from crying and vomming every journey to happy as larry. The difference is unreal.

And frankly, the screaming & sick & choking was a massive accident waiting to happen. I was so distracted on every car journey, it was dangerous.

You gotta do what you gotta do..

And yes, I need to use my car. We live rurally. It’s 25 minutes to nursery. 20 minutes to school.

@NotBot oh god one throwing up is enough! If you’d exhausted all those things I don’t blame you for turning the seat round, I would do the same. As you say it’s dangerous with the choking risk, there’s no way I could drive him alone as things stand.

@Pinkychilla Oof it really is horrible isn’t it! Glad yours has mostly improved. I’d never seen him be sick like that before and I find it really upsetting, and I feel so bad for him.
I’m going to try no dairy, black out side windows (they had a shade over them but can still see through), remove head rest and if none of those work we’ll have to get a non isofix one. The Axkid seat was £600! 😫 (my turn to vomit lol). I do think isofix moves a lot more and we have older manual cars and it’s far from a smooth ride so it could be more movement.

Thank you for all your responses 🙏🏻

Does he have any mirrors or anything in his eye level? My Ds get terrible car sick, has done since he was a baby and I was told to cover windows as much as possible and remove any mirrors that are picking up motion

My son started getting sick in every longish car journey when he was a bit older than that. We were going on a massive road trip and a guy I worked with said an iPad mounted on the car seat in front of them (he was front facing) worked for his children. I’m sure you could mount it to where he is facing. Tried it and he never gets sick, no matter how bad the roads. I know it’s not ideal but I justified it by being happier with him watching cartoons than medicating him or him (all of us!) being miserable.