Car troubles

Honestly - some kids hate the car. My son screamed every car journey until he was around 18 months old and then he just.. stopped. Now he doesn’t mind it x

I always kept things on hand to hand back to them as a distraction, especially during teeth whole peeled carrots were a good hardback. Anything interesting to aid to the art of distraction

My baby screams and cries depending on how frequently we’re in the car. When I was working she was in a car everyday and HATED it so we offered toys and distractions and even bottles while driving so she was comfortable. They’ll get used to it eventually

Maybe try a tablet with musical songs

Mine gets car sick and never liked being in a car, hates the car seat…
Looking into a good fitting car seat is a good idea though

A dummy helped us in the car at the start until he got better at it. My son then weaned himself off it at 8 months and I was worried car journeys would be awful but they were generally ok from then

Some babies hate the car, and eventually grow out of it. My son screamed every car journey until 5 months old, then it was every other journey until about 8 months. Then he was old enough to hold toys and be distracted.

Some people have success with certain songs, like the happy song by Imogen heap. Some babies prefer to be more sat up so putting them in the next stage seat as soon as they're big enough and her a good safe fit (at 5 months for us).

How old is your cabriofix? They have an "expiry" date which is usually 10 years from manufacture date, but double check.

Also I don't know the rules in Australia but in England I can put a child's car seat in the front so that helped a bit

Thank you all

My baby was the same up until probably 9 months then it just changed and she got more chilled in the car seat. I genuinely think she was uncomfortable as our nuna seat just looked uncomfortable when she was in it! We tried a lot of diff things! She still isn’t amazing at 14 months but much better than hysteric screaming every car ride which was really hard when I was on my own!

The car seat might be uncomfortable

Ickle bubba 360 so it’s easy to put baby in.

Fill up his tummy before any car trips. My girl was like this but I quickly learnt that she needed to be completely full before getting in

When you say fairly old, how old? As they do have an expiration date beyond which it's not safe to use.