my dd is 21 mos and the last few times we've driven to ct she's thrown up about 1.5 hrs into the ride (a 2 hr ride). she's still rearfacing. will turning her around help with motion sickness? i have heard ginger helps. we have a 12hr car ride this summer. any advice?
If she get motion sickness, then rear facing will make her sick every single time.
If she can see out the front window it will help. To this day I cannot sit in the back seat unless I have a clear view of the front window, or I throw up.
Ginger helps with an upset tummy - but motion sickness is an inner ear thing. Something like the sickness you feel when you spin around too much.
Another thing that helps is being able to feel wind or the movement of the car. For some reason, sitting still with all that motion makes me ill, but if I can feel we are moving, I don't get sick as often. A slightly rolled down window can do wonders.
I would try forward facing as long as she is big enough.
she weighs 27lbs. so i think she would be ok turned around. we were planning to turn her around when she exceeds the weight limit. 33lbs i think.
i was just doing a search on here and found that maybe crystalized ginger would work. but with my luck my picky eater won't eat it.
Ginger never did anything for my motion sickness, since it wasn't really an upset tummy. I had to get out of the car once I got to feeling ill, or throw up.
For a ride that long you might also want to check with your ped about dramamine...i would definitely use it as a last resort but at least if you were desperate you would know the proper dosing.
We turned one of my boys forward facing earlier than I wanted to for that reason. (He was about 2.5...his brother was rear facing well past three). We postponed until we had one of those long trips coming up and turned him. No more car sickness. We do make sure that he is looking outward toward the road when the roads are curvy/sickness inducing still ("hey, can you see those trees ahead"). But no puking with him at all since we turned around.
My DS (now 2.5Y) starting getting car sick at about 10M -- believe it or not. It made car trips pretty miserable for a couple of months there. I could not nurse him because he'd just throw up even more. So ... we ended up turning him forward-facing sooner than I would have liked, but he has never been car-sick since he turned forward.
My DS has car-sickness too. It made no sense to me at first that he loves amusement park rides and has never had a problem on them, but put him in the car for more than 20-30 minutes and he pukes. He is a vomiter anyways, so it took many pukes in the car for me to figure out what was going on. Our ped said it is common in little kids when they can't see the horizon, so now when he complains of feeling sick all of a sudden (or starts crying for no apparent reason) we encourage him to look out his window. DS is forward facing now and hence why he only pukes at night when there is no horizon. I think turning your DC forward facing should help a lot (at least during the daytime!
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