My daughter is 19 months old and has been getting carsick (actually vomiting:yuck: ) since just before she turned one. It was really bad for a few months and then I thought she'd outgrown it because she didn't do it between 14 and 18 months, but last month she did it again and then did yesterday. Does anyone have any experience with this? Any tips on how to minimize it? She's too young to tell me if she feels unwell or to help herself (like staring at the horizon or something). I just don't know what to do to help her, and it usually ends up ruining my day if it happens. I don't deal well with vomit at the best of times and I'm currently 8 months pregnant and yesterday it was all I could do to keep from vomiting myself when I was cleaning it up! :yuck: :yuck: :yuck:
SaraBear
02-20-2008, 07:34 AM
:hugs:
hugs for you mama,
does it help if you give her toys to play with so she isn't looking out the window?
do you still have her rear facing? (i don't know if that makes a diff.)
hope it gets better soon!
GL
CarrieMF
02-20-2008, 10:53 AM
My middle dd did that when we turned her to forward facing. the first time she did it was in our old van which had no A/C, it was 90 outside & we were travelling for 3hours. She threw up 30min into the trip & it was milk. I told dh to keep driving while I cleaned her up so we'd get there faster.lol
Is there a time limit that you've noticed? Asha's limit was 30minutes. It didn't matter if we were in town stopping & starting or if we were on the highway in a long trip, 30minutes was her limit. We found that out the day we were test driving a new vehicle & she threw up in it(apparently it happens alot)
In town it wasn't usually a problem as it only takes 10mintues to get anywhere so our issue was long trips.
No dairy at all before we left. A light meal of toast or something that was drier. Convincing her to go to sleep helped. Gravol which helped her go to sleep. She outgrew it between 3 & 4.
sapphire6
02-20-2008, 11:04 AM
When we are going on a car trip, I never give the LOs who tend to get car sick any milk before or during the ride. They stick to juice and water until we get to our destination. That way, if they do "blow", it doesn't really smell that bad which makes it much easier to deal with, especially when we can't make an immediate pit stop since we are on the freeway. HTH
kmdchuckles
02-20-2008, 08:35 PM
is she in the middle of the back seat so she can see out the windshield? maybe that would help.
my first thought was actually maybe it's not carsickness, but something else if it went away and came back. does she have a cold? could she have an ear infection or sinus infection? something that would throw equilibrium out of whack and get her nauseated and then the car makes it worse. maybe you should call the doctor and see what the doc says.
lydiamom
02-21-2008, 12:51 PM
we have a van so she is behind the driver's side of the car in the middle row, facing forward. I'm pretty sure its carsickness and not something else because it used to happen all the time in the car (and once on an airplane) but never anywhere else. I did talk to my ped about it and she just told me she might outgrow it. Which I thought she had done until a month ago :banghead: ! The last two times it has happened were after sitting in traffic jams for a while, so I think maybe the frequent braking and accelerating set her off. It also doesn't seem to matter how long the trip is--one time I took us out to the bank and Wendy's drivethrough (both within 2 miles of the house) and she threw up, but then we've also gone on a 10 hour drive and she did fine! :headscratch:
gabesmamamadeit
02-21-2008, 09:49 PM
Did it start when you turned her Forward facing? If your carseat is a convertable maybe you should try turning her back to Rearfacing. It is safer anyway, lol. Sorry I am an avdocate, my son is almost 2.5 years and still Rear facing.
Another suggestion is to give her lots of toys and books to play with or maybe play a childrens cd for her.
