Traveling with newborn

[feisty]

Depends on what type of vacation you are doing too. If you plan on staying at resort most of the time and will be happy with that, the newborn part won't be bad - but not sure if you wanted a more active vacation, I would want to try that with one so young. Agreee that depends on baby's temperment. How long can you wait to cancel?

[scotty138]

We took a 10 hour drive when DS was 8 weeks and he did surprisingly well. We traveled mostly at night and he slept a lot. I wouldn't hesitate to do it again with a newborn. Just give yourself plenty of extra travel time.

[Deleted]

I don't think it would be terrible but you'll probably be too exhausted to enjoy it that early. I was a zombie with DD for months, she was up every 2 hours to feed and I probably just wouldn't have even remembered vacationing with her that early.

[peanutmuse]

Aug 24, 2015 20:13:25 GMT -5 @aest said:

I don't think it would be terrible but you'll probably be too exhausted to enjoy it that early. I was a zombie with DD for months, she was up every 2 hours to feed and I probably just wouldn't have even remembered vacationing with her that early.

Yikes, yeah that would not be fun.

We took my son to St. Thomas VI when he was 4.5 months old and he was sleeping through the night at that point, so it was a good first "family" trip for us.

[wilburbud]

I actually have found it easier to travel with a newborn. They tend to sleep more. I'm a big sound machine fan, so I download sleep pillow to my phone so I always have one with us. I baby wear, so no stroller needed. If baby doesn't sleep at night is the only hard part for the other people in the room but hopefully to can pop a boob in the babes mouth and blast that white noise and get some restful sleep.