Sleeping in the car
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Topic: Sleeping in the car
Posted By: 1st_Time_Preggies
Subject: Sleeping in the car
Date Posted: 16 July 2010 at 5:55pm
My DS is 5 and a half months and tomorrow we are off to Tauranga to visit his grandaddy 
He often falls asleep on the drive which is fine, but his head tends to fall forward and it looks SO uncomfortable and I'm sure he must get a sore neck. Anyone got any ideas how to make him more comfortable? I have tried to put something under his head but this doesn't really work. |
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Posted By: T_Rex
Date Posted: 16 July 2010 at 6:32pm
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Can you recline the carseat a bit further back? If it's in the infant mode it's usually pretty good for sleeping in. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: NewPhoenix
Date Posted: 16 July 2010 at 6:51pm
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Posted By: bopmum
Date Posted: 16 July 2010 at 7:15pm
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Oh DS does this too and looks really uncomfortable! No matter how hard we try we can't get him to put it back. Caide is still in his capsule though so don't think we can recline it any further? ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: E&L+1
Date Posted: 16 July 2010 at 7:51pm
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Lisette you can try a rolled up towel at the front of the capsule to recline it further. We had to do that to get our capsule to recline enough. We also used a happi baby insert. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Gardengirl
Date Posted: 16 July 2010 at 8:49pm
| We had to do this with our capsule too - the slant of some car back seats is such that the capsule doesn't sit as level as it should. It's actually potentially quite dangerous for very tiny babies for their heads to flop forward like that. If you're in any doubt Plunket will always check and make sure it's at the right level and they got me to pop a rolled up bath towel under our fixed base. |
Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 17 July 2010 at 9:15am
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Does your car have bucket seats or seats that slope?
Ours do and we found out we hadn't actually put the capsule in correctly with the seats like that so had to put the towel under to make it flat iygwim, solved the problem but now she is trying to sit she likes to pull herself forward!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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