She's almost 10 months old and has been getting worse and worse in the car. The instant we buckle her, she starts getting upset and her crabbiness increases as the trip goes on. She's definitely an "explorer", is crawling and so on and HATES being "stuck" in any spot at any time. I get why she's mad, but there's nothing I can do about it - we've got to go places.
We just drove a five hour trip and it was touch and go the whole time. I had to sit in the back with her (though I get car sick) and entertain her. At times I had to nurse her while we were traveling (her still buckled in her seat and my go-go-gadget boob s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g to her mouth). We have another eight hour trip this weekend and then another eight hour one after that. There's NO avoiding these trips.
She screams and screams and screams - to the point of voice loss. It's HORRIBLE. She doesn't just let it out and fall asleep - she sticks to her guns and screams. She's still rear-facing and I think it would be way better if she wasn't but there's no way around it right now since she's still really little.
She doesn't take a binky so that won't help. Opening the windows interests her for a second. Any toys interest her for 30 seconds at a time. At the end of a trip, we usually have 20 million things strewn about the back seats since she's thrown them everywhere.
We do have a dvd player in the car and my five year old watches Nemo and that will interest her for a few minutes. I'm wondering if maybe Baby Einstein or something will help?? We haven't really watched anything with the baby yet.
Anyone have any ideas?!
We just drove a five hour trip and it was touch and go the whole time. I had to sit in the back with her (though I get car sick) and entertain her. At times I had to nurse her while we were traveling (her still buckled in her seat and my go-go-gadget boob s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g to her mouth). We have another eight hour trip this weekend and then another eight hour one after that. There's NO avoiding these trips.
She screams and screams and screams - to the point of voice loss. It's HORRIBLE. She doesn't just let it out and fall asleep - she sticks to her guns and screams. She's still rear-facing and I think it would be way better if she wasn't but there's no way around it right now since she's still really little.
She doesn't take a binky so that won't help. Opening the windows interests her for a second. Any toys interest her for 30 seconds at a time. At the end of a trip, we usually have 20 million things strewn about the back seats since she's thrown them everywhere.
We do have a dvd player in the car and my five year old watches Nemo and that will interest her for a few minutes. I'm wondering if maybe Baby Einstein or something will help?? We haven't really watched anything with the baby yet.
Anyone have any ideas?!
