My younger dd was my car screamer. In hindsight, I think that it was motion sickness. That never occured to me until she was old enough to tell us how sick she was in the car (and she started vomiting non-stop on car rides, plane rides, etc. when she was older). While she wasn't throwing up in the car as a baby, I do wonder if the screaming was related to feeling poorly.

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