Baby hates car seat

We’ve tried different car seats and currently have the Nuna Todl Next car seat but baby just screams the whole time unless he’s so tired that he has fallen asleep. He’ll only nap for 10-15 mins in the car seat. And recently has started crying the moment he sees the car seat, before we’ve even started putting him in! He has never liked being in car seats. Our eldest loves being in the car and hasn’t had any issues with the car seat so this is all new to us. Any tips for helping baby get used to the car seat to make car journeys a bit more bearable??

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My baby was the same and had a doona x which has a very restrictive head support so borrowed a maxi cosi from a MIL and he was so much happier as it didn’t have the head support I now have a doona + again with no head support and know they are only r44 not r129 safety but I think it’s more unsafe for him to be screaming the whole way anywhere with distractions. Also sits in the front & if he can see me he’s happier. Find aswell a lot of it is boredom so do have an iPad which I occasionally put on for him as needs must sometimes. Could be motion sickness facing backwards but can’t be front facing until 15 months.. my friends daughter was awful rear facing and as soon as front facing was a different baby.. this was 10+ years ago before they put 15 month rule in place x

Could it be motion sickness? my son was like this also I’m trolleys too, had to turn him round because he would just meltdown, turned him round and he was fine - he’s 7 now and to this day long car journeys he says his belly hurts , short ones he’s fine on x

We used a car mirror and seeing her face helped her massively.

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