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What do you do when LO cries in car seat?

lkm2006lkm2006 member
in November 2011 Moms

I know you aren't supposed to CIO at this age and I have no desire to do so. I'm guilty of picking LO up the second he starts whimpering. What do you do while you are driving though?

So far I haven't had any problems but the other day he was screaming bloody murder in his seat.  (it was maybe a ten minute drive across town). I had to pull over and get him out of the seat and he was sweating bc he had been crying so bad. I held him for a minute and he fell asleep and did fine until we got home but now I'm terrified of going somewhere that may take a bit longer. I can't very well pull over on the interstate. 

What is the correct way to handle this? I can't stand to hear him cry like that! 

 

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  • klovesdklovesd
    I just hope and pray DD will calm herself down :) 
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  • smilelarismilelari member

    it depends.  if they are just fussing off and on or it's a short drive, keep driving.

    if they are full on screaming, pull over if and when it's safe, calm them down, then keep driving.

    you shouldn't let them cio, but when you are driving there are other safety factors involved.  baby may cry.  as long as lo isn't left to cry regularly, it's really ok.

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  • AllieCat16AllieCat16 member
    Fortunately, have not had to experience more than a brief moment of hysteria from ds but I do want to public service something about this. To pp point, when it is safe, pull over and tend to LO. A friend of mine and his girlfriend were almost killed because a lady who was driving turned around to look at her screaming infant. In that moment, she swerved into the other lane hitting my friend and his girlfriend on his motorcycle. Fortunately one of the guys they were riding with was an EMT and was able to stabilize them until an ambulance came. They both would have died. Matt almost lost his foot completely and his girlfriend broke her pelvis and shattered her knee. Both will never fully be able to walk and are 27 and 23 years old. The woman that hit them has been emotionally hurt forever. My friends father is a preacher and has been working with her to come to grips with what she did. Of course it was an accident but in that brief moment you take your eyes off the road you put yourself, your LO and others in danger. Her and her child walked away scratch free. 
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  • SuzJune04SuzJune04 member

    If they were really screaming, I'd pull over at a safe spot.  Sometimes white noise would settle my LO's down.  Either find a fuzzy radio station or download hair-dryer sounds (they used to have cds for this too).  I'd also sing to LO and that would calm DS down (my DD hasn't gotten too upset yet).

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  • Vieve831Vieve831 member
    Radio static really helps my LO. I play that for a minute when he starts fussing and then switch to lullabies. Yesterday DH and I were together in the car and we pulled over so I could sit in back next to him and talk to him (he still wasn't happy though)
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  • MrsCaddyshackMrsCaddyshack member

    My baby HATES her carseat, so if I were to pull over everytime she cried, I'd never go anywhere.

    I have a CD of white noise that I play for her that she likes, and if there's more than one adult in the car, one of us sits in the back to comfort her and give her a paci.  

    The other day I actually was stuck on the freeway with her in the back seat screaming... it broke my heart... we were one exit from home and the traffic was a a stand still for 15 minutes, there was absolutely nothing I could do to help her. 

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  • mrsjenniferg2010mrsjenniferg2010 member
    If we are far from home then we will pull over if its safe. If we are less then 10 minutes I will talk to her until we get home. We have had only two cries so far.
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  • adri77adri77 member
    Turn the music up.  Unless I know it's a legit reason, like I know she's hungry....then I pull over and feed her somewhere.  Or, if the crying is SUPER intense, I'll just pull over if I can just to take a look at her and make sure she looks ok, try to put her binky in or something....kids crying in the car is ROUGH!!!
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  • TMS1980TMS1980
    If my husband is driving I let him suck on my pinky....works every time... If I am alone I will let him suck my pinky at stoplights and it calms him for a bit... Sometimes he continues to cry sometimes he doesn't...I can reach him in the back seat from both front seats...he doesn't cry to much in the car unless he is really hungry...I feed him as soon as we get to destination.
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