A few days ago we opened this Baby special and more about travel by car with children and babies asking you to send us your questions, your doubts and your concerns.
Among your queries there have been issues that have already been resolved by themselves when addressing the different issues that we have been developing, others that will be answered in future installments of this special and even some that you readers answered in the comments, but maybe not It is worth it that we give a quick review of the questions you raised.
Quick answer questions ...
Agnès Ortega Pérez He asked us what to do when the baby does not stop crying in the chair because he wants us to hold him in his arms. Although the answer will arrive tomorrow to Babies and more in one more installment of this special, we can already advance something that Mireia Long spoke a few days ago: the baby uses crying as a means of expression. Therefore, we have to listen to him and talk with him. If he cries because he doesn't want to sit down… you have to get him to understand that he has to sit down in order to travel by car. The crux of the matter is made up of a bit of foresight, a lot of patience and an incredible capacity for persuasion.
For its part, mirena72 He asked us to talk about dizziness, something that was already resolved last Sunday with the publication of Traveling by Car with Children: Avoiding Dizziness. As we said and explained, the key is to minimize the lack of coordination between what the child feels with his eyes, with his ear and with the musculoskeletal system. And tranquility, a lot of tranquility accompanied by soft distractions.
Merche Fisgon He explained that in summer his baby sweats a lot in the chair, but Merche fears to stop the air conditioning or open the window in case the child is constipated. "Any tricks for this?" He asked, and the answer came from the hand of Ana Reboreda Prieto, who recommended using the air conditioner in moderation, at about 23º, and pointing the aerators upwards, since the cold air tends to descend. As a complement to this great explanation, we can add one that we already outlined when we talk about choosing a child seat: make additional breaks in the driving so that the baby can air from time to time.
In tune with the previous ones, Anna JR He worried about the postural hygiene of his two daughters when they fall asleep during the trips they make by car, something we also talked about when we set out the criteria for choosing a car seat (and it is that we were very pleasantly surprised to see that your questions coincided quite a lot with the original approach of topics that we made for this special). You saw the answer: take care of excess slack and reposition the neck when necessary. It's not that it's "impossible mission," as Anna JR said, but it's cumbersome, yes. The consolation is in remembering that everything in life is stages.
And more about child restraint systems, since can 365 He made us choose between an approved carrycot or a "maxi-cosi" type seat for the car, and since this entry is about short answers, here we are going to use a couple of videos, one corresponding to an impact test carried out with a carrycot approved and another in which the baby travels in a group seat 0:
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The comparisons are odious, yes, but I would never put a baby in a carrycot to go by car. In fact, I've never done it and I promise never to.
... and complicated answer questions
Take this opportunity, can 365 I also wanted to know how often it is advisable to stop on a trip with a baby of about 18 months, and although the standard recommendation to pause a trip is usually every two or three hours, after 200 kilometers traveled or as soon as the First symptoms of tiredness, the truth is that a baby breaks all these rules and tends to impose its own schedule. How often to stop? Be guided by what your daughter tells you, latata365, which is the one in charge at home.
Another difficult answer question was raised Edu Camarena, who wanted to know how to take a 13-month-old baby on a 12-hour bus trip. It's complicated, what are we going to fool ourselves for. Of all the means of transport to make a trip with a baby, the bus is the least indicated, since normally the routes are calculated with less frequent rest stops than a baby may need. However, if the trip cannot be made by any other means, the only thing we can recommend is the use of a group 0 child restraint system and try to choose the seats located in the front of the vehicle, in case any serious incident expose it to the driver so that he can assess whether or not to make an exceptional stop. In any case, before hiring the trip, the matter should be discussed with the bus company to hear their opinion.
In another vein, chubby girl (Sorry, she signs with that nickname) She wondered if it is positive or not for children to watch movies in the car, and we will discuss this issue in a few days. For now we will not extend this point, and so the discussion will be richer when we have to talk about the use of the DVD in the car.
Finally, we wanted to choose a question of the proposals to answer it in a more exhaustive way, and that has been none other than the one posed by Rigel Slim, who asked us for some recommendations for traveling by car with three-year-old children when they don't have chairs to do it and asked us if it is advisable to put the adult seat belts on the children. The answers to all this you already have in the Babies Club and more.
To all the people who have sent us their concerns, Thank you very much. We hope we could bring some light to each of those uncertainties that surrounded you.
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