https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 12 May 2026 20:31:26 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063423 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:00:03 +0000 mrsbookworm 1063423@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DS is 4 months and still hates the car. I usually can't even get out of the driveway without him crying. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063419 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:57:48 +0000 littlebug 1063419@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, D also hated the car for the first 3 months or so. The only thing that helped, sometimes, was giving him a blanket, a paci, and blaring white noise. Otherwise...grin and bear it. Sorry, mama, but it DOES get better!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063367 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:43:00 +0000 birdofafeather 1063367@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hate to break it, but unless our girl was asleep, she HATED the car until 3.5 months. i just had to tough it out because mama had places to be. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063351 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:36:05 +0000 knittingmama 1063351@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Try music...my daughter would only calm down with Lou Leonard Cohen. No other artist. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063324 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:28:27 +0000 LazyLightning 1063324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same problem here. She screamed 2/3 of an 8 hour trip. Such a rip off since people always tell you babies love the car!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063298 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:15:58 +0000 brownie 1063298@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: at 5 weeks he really liked hard rock music. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063293 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:13:45 +0000 chopsuey 1063293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: HAHA it is intense.<br /> My DD hated being in the car until she was a little shy of 3 months old. We took a 3 hour roap trip of misery when she was 2 months old. Right around 3 months she got over it!</p> <p>Thankfully DS loved it from the get go and always fell asleep in the car. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063287 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:11:54 +0000 dagret 1063287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Foodnerd81: nothing helped us except D'S getting older! It took probably until 4.5-5 mo until putting him in the car didn't result in an instant scream fest. It gets better! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063283 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:10:00 +0000 Foodnerd81 1063283@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@chopsuey: that's pretty intense! I think it would overstimulate her now but as she gets older I think toys could help. </p> <p>@brownie: we've tried blaring the white noise too-- it's like an ocean crashing right in the car. It may help a teeny bit but hard to tell. </p> <p>Ironically, today Sounds of Silence came on while she was screaming in the background :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063129 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:37:48 +0000 brownie 1063129@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>White noise app over the speakers. Ultimately, we just didn't let him hate it. Now with th tablet and movies he is pretty good. We just did two 4 hour drives today with him. He was a touch whiny cause he's sick but not just screaming. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063125 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:34:25 +0000 Smurfette 1063125@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>R hated the car seat too! I just started putting her in it everyday so she would get use to it. By 8 weeks it was better. We took. 5 hour car ride and she did ok cause I sat in the back with her.</p> <p>Time is really the only thing that worked I think. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063117 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:30:01 +0000 MamaJ 1063117@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My DS still hates the car at 9 months. We moved him to a convertible seat and still hates it. If we get lucky he will just play. He rarely sleeps. I've just had to get used to the crying :( </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063099 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:24:37 +0000 chopsuey 1063099@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have you tried one of those hanging toy attachments?<br /> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Love-Take-Along-Sunny-Stroll/dp/B000S9RF4M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1378247066&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=car+seat+toy" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Tiny-Love-Take-Along-Sunny-Stroll/dp/B000S9RF4M/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1378247066&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=car+seat+toy</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/convincing-a-baby-to-like-the-car#post-1063085 Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:21:17 +0000 Foodnerd81 1063085@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Any tips on getting a baby to like being in the car? C is 5 weeks old and she hates it. She just about always cries when we get in it, and 2/3 times she will continue crying for almost the whole trip (usually under 20 minutes). The other 1/3 she will cry and then settle or fall asleep, but it's rare. Today is was just about nap time, she'd eaten recently enough that she wasn't really hungry (though not totally full), and she screamed the whole time. </p> <p>I can handle it for short trips but eventually we'll need to go visit my parents who live 5 hours away. I don't think she is uncomfortable in the seat, since she was fine when we had her in the snap and go base and were wheeling her around. </p> <p>Any tips to help her like it, or at least tolerate it? Oh, and she will rarely take a paci. The only thing that seems to settle her a little is if I'm sitting in the back with her and put my pinky in her mouth, but I don't feel like that's very safe, since if we got rear ended I'm afraid I'd jab my finger into her. </p> <p>I tried telling her that babies love the car and she wouldn't listen. </p>