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Does anyone have suggestions for combating motion sickness? I'd love to use my dh's laptop in the car in the next few weeks. We are going to be traveling extensively and I just so happen to have a book revision overdo and a couple of talks to write. It kills me that I'm losing all this time just sitting in the car but reading and cars have never mixed well for me. Anybody have any ideas??
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My only idea is just based on the theory that motion sickness comes from your peripheral vision seeing movement but you are looking at still objects. Have you tried surrounding yourself on all sides so you can't see out and then read? Like a little cocoon?
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Oh, Elizabeth, I have that, too! I can't even write a check in the car without feeling queasy. I can read, however, if I hold the book up to eye level (rather than looking down at it). So maybe if the laptop is propped up really high so you can look straight ahead at it?
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All of this while wearing motion sickness wrist bands and chewing on ginger chews or for an even more complete and pretty picture, sucking on queezy pops with wind blowing in your face...
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You could try a half dose of Dramamine - it works well for my son - he feels better but doesn't get sleepy.
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My dd swears by Tomie de Paola remedy of eating pop corn  The bands Angie mentioned have worked for me in the past. I have never tried using a lap top in car though. I hope you find something that works!
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All totally a moot point. Karoline cried the whole four hours and I spent much of it strapped in next to her trying to nurse while we were both buckled. Perhaps she gets carsick too...
Now, the big question is how am I going to get her to Florida to visit my mother in July. I don't have another trip like the last one in me. 
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Elizabeth wrote:
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Ahh yes, the old nursing while driving trick. We've done it many a time. It becomes more challenging when trying to nurse a toddler who is in a front facing seat. Talk about a gymnastics act. 
I often wonder what others in passing cars are thinking.  It probably looks as though I am trying to smother the poor kid as I lean across his car seat to get just the right angle.
Seriously though, I hope for both of your sakes that sweet Karoline is in better spirits for the next trip.
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Oh Elizabeth, my Gabriel at 2 still screams in the car, and I get terribly car sick, especially when my dh is driving  I feel for you, what about earplugs and the dramamine???
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I started using Bonine for my dd(12 yo) who gets carsick. Dramamine doesn't work for her. I give her a Bonine the night before we travel and then again in the morning an hour before we start out. It still makes her sleepy even though it is advertised not to be as bad as Dramanine with sleepiness. She has done great on the Bonine! Hopefully, this will be of some help to someone.
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I started using Bonine for my dd(12 yo) who gets carsick. Dramamine doesn't work for her. I give her a Bonine the night before we travel and then again in the morning an hour before we start out. It still makes her sleepy even though it is advertised not to be as bad as Dramanine with sleepiness. She has done great on the Bonine! Hopefully, this will be of some help to someone.
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There is a less-drowsy form of dramamine that I have used with good results. The wrist bands are also helpful. But I feel for you. When my ds was 6 months old we went to a wedding, and he screamed the entire 3.5 hours in the car on the way there. On the way home, we left right before his morning nap. I nursed him and put him in the car in that "happy milky haze". He didn't go to sleep for over an hour, and he didn't sleep long, but he didn't scream the whole way back, either.
As long as I live I won't forget that drive.
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Can you use dramamine with a baby (I can't even believe I'm asking this--you'd have to know me to no how anti-intervention I am)? A friend suggested Benadryl, too...
Karoline is about 20 pounds.
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The Dr. Sears website says dramamine is for babies older than one year...
Benadryl could work, but- wouldn't you know with my luck it causes hyperactivity in my dc, not sedation. And you definitely don't want that hyperactive side effect in the car! Could you do a test run with it at bedtime one night?
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