Travelling by car to Scotland - advice please!

[Shaz]

Hi Guys - hope this is the right forum to pu this in!

In April we're travelling up to see Husbands Mum and Dad in Scotland (About a 7 hour drive). CJ will be just over three months old at that time and we'll be travellling through the night because hubby is working during the day.

Is there any guidelines on how often we should stop and get him out of the car seat? Hopefuly by then he'll be pretty much sleeping through the nights (or maybe having one bottle), but I'm more concerned about him being in his car seat for such a long period of time.

Also we've got a travel cot - wil he be ok in this at three and a half months? Looking at it now it looks massive compared to his moses basket?

Any tips girls??

 

[Urchin]

I've seen you can get a car seat that lets them lie flat. I don't know how much they are though.

A Travel cot will be fine

 

[kellie80]

HV told me that they shouldn't be in their car seat for longer than 2 hours at a time as its bad for their hips. Not sure if thats just for newborns though or older babies. I would imagine its for all babies in the 1st stage car seats.

 

[Princess_Puddles]

I found this http://www.twoleftfeet.co.uk/acatalog/C ... r_Kit.html
Not sure if its exactly that, that your buying though

 

[Hypnorm]

We are just up from you in gloucester and travel to scotland (east coast ) eyemouth about 2x yrly to see relatives we first went when ewan was about 6 months or just under we travelled through the night as we knew he wouls sleep most of the way - we have a britax 1st class car seat which we can recline back. it takes us about 7-8 hours.
we stopped about every 2 hours. i'm sure he will be fine, and belive me they let you know if they are not comfortable!!