Carsickness

kelly321

Who else has LOs that throw up in the car? Are you switching to FFing? DD2 has started to throw up if we're on curvy roads for more than a few minutes. Today we had to take a detour on a normal route and she threw up a bit, and DH said maybe she should FF her. If any of you have gone through this, does it help?

kelly321

We'll have to see how frequently it happens to decide whether a puking poncho would be a good idea. So far it has only been twice, but since spit up and blow-outs are thankfully not regular occurrences anymore, I don't always have a change of clothes with us. If it starts happening more often, I may consider FFing her earlier. The open windows helped yesterday, so we'll keep trying that first, too.

holly321

My dd did not start having car sickness until we turned her to ff. I was told to try a portal DVD player to keep them from looking out the window.

kelly321

holly321 said:

My dd did not start having car sickness until we turned her to ff. I was told to try a portal DVD player to keep them from looking out the window.

That surprises me (about the DVD player). I get carsick if I DON'T look out the windows. If I try to read or look at the GPS for too long, I get nauseous. 

The article above suggests taking off the back headrest so they can see the horizon. We may try that before switching her to FF.