2 Day Road Trip, Advice?

[wicked22]

Next month I will be embarking on a road trip from Omaha to Orlando to visit my dad and his family. It will take 2 days normal drive to get there and then another 2 days normal to get back. Throw a baby in the mix and i'm sure it will take a little longer. Any road worrier mom's have advise for the 2 day trip other than pack everything? (that's already on my check list).
ETA: I'm a pumper as well.

[tacocat]

I did it when LO was 6 weeks. Basically my best advice is to feed right before you go, and plan to stop every 3 hours. This way you don't have to pump. Some people said they fed a bottle while lo was in the car seat but you can't burp them, and they don't expel any energy doing that, so they end up fussy sooner than later. We just tried to drive around his feedings. If you can sit in back it may help get you longer sleep sessions as you can put LO back to sleep if he stirs. If it is at all possible and you can drive at night that may help, but we couldn't do that and get any sleep to be able to drive so we just left in the morning. Putting a cover or blanket over his car seat helped keep him calm and the light out. A loud white noise machine helped as well.

We did a 12 hour trip in 2 days so we stayed at a hotel mid trip. If this is you, make sure they have a fridge so you can keep milk if you do pump. Also, we brought the rock and play for him to sleep.

Eta plan on lo waking up every time you stop. Make your stops productive. Our 6 hour trip (each day) going there took 8 the first day, but only 6 the second because we left at 5 am and he slept except one quick stop. On the way back it took 10 hours the second day because lo was crazy and traffic was bad. Hang in there.

[tacocat]

Also, I changed lo on a disposable pad in the car so I didn't have to take him in dirty gas stations or anywhere germy TBH. It was faster.

[catlady22]

We took a road trip at 2 months old and it really wasn't bad. We left after LOs first feed of the day so he would still sleep. Then stopped every 3 to 4 hours (based on when he would wake up) to feed and change. Good luck!