HATES the car

My darling little baby hates the car, the clue came right in the beginning really the day after he was born and we were driving home he stayed awake the entire ride home, he was 1 day old!!!!!!!

Anyway I can placate with a dummy, but normally he screams, I have tried going when he is due for a nap, when he isn't etc and nothing seems to help.

Its very frustrating mainly cos he is small and can only handle about 90 mins of awake time at the absolute outside and by the time we have got somewhere, and done anything he is over tired and then screams the whole way home.

Anyway, I don't expect him to change, just looking for tips from others on anything that helped there littley like the car a bit better.

 

While trying to figure out a possible trigger could you try giving him rescue remedy or something similar to help calm him before the car ride?
Good luck, it must make life alot harder

We used to have lots of problems with the car too and I stopped going very far at all and tried to limit my drives to really short trips like up to 10 mins. That seemed to help and now he's actually pretty good and I can travel up to about 45 mins - haven't really tried longer. But now I can distract with food, which I think helps.

Part of what I think used to be the problem was he'd wake and then we'd go somewhere pretty soon after that so no time to hang out and stretch and relax, so I wondered if it was also timing. Once he was moving around a bit he definitely didn't like going straight from the stroller to the car, too much restriction perhaps.

I'm trying to think back to when it changed and I can't quite remember, but at some point I moved the carseat from the side to the middle and I wonder if that made a difference? If it's on the side can you move it to the middle?

What about toys? Do you have anything interesting hanging around for him to look at? Perhaps a few different things to rotate so it's not always the same?

Fingers crossed something helps to change it as it's pretty stressful driving with a screaming child!

my baby never had a problem with cars....
but i always say to her that "v r going out" before i put her in the capsule, then i will have a nice drive!

Interesting about the osteo. DD used to hate being in her capsule. Like full on screaming fits the whole 20 minutes drive home from town. We took her to a few osteo appointments because she was favouring one side to sleep and also some issues with her breech positioning, hips etc. Pretty soon after that she stopped freaking out in the carseat and we managed a 5.5hr trip with one stop and no screaming. I thought it was age related, but the osteo makes total sense now.

Another thing I found was she got very hot and sweaty in the capsule. I used to put a muslin underneath her so she wasn't directly on the capsule fabric and also stripped her clothing down a few layers. It was easy to throw a blanket over her later if she got a bit chilly.

DD hated the capsule she's much happier since going into the car seat.