car seat is instrument of torture! Any tips?

[Pebs]

DS is now 4 months and still sees his car seat as an instrument of torture. I thought he would grow out of it but there are no signs yet. He is either screaming (restricting for obvious reasons) or asleep (which means that he is getting too much day sleep on long journeys). Has anyone else had this problem and are there any tips? Please tell me he will grow out of it and that I will be able to have nice shopping trips at some point in the next couple of years.

Hi,
Ds 3 used to hate his rear facing car seat, luckily we only had to use it a couple of times due to where we live, i thought it was just because he wasn't used to it, but at 6 months we changed him into the forward facing car seat, still dont use it very often,He's 16 months now and i've just travelled from Scotland to Devon and back (11 hours each way) and he was fine, waving to cars and lorries, no problem,
hth.

I feel for you my ds now nearly 2 can only handle a certain amount of being in carseat or buggy and distraction is the only way forward but for a small baby that isn't quite the same. When ds used to protest at initially being clunk clicked I had to do it anyway and then he would usually calm down a bit knowing that Mum was in control of things and then I sang to him to let him know I was around & everything was well. Can you not use it for a while to break the association for a bit?