Vacation after baby

I can't imagine sitting in a car for 10 hours while recovering from giving birth, establishing breastfeeding, and just basically adjusting to new mom life. Maybe your experience will be different than mine, but I couldn't do it lol

Driving to the supermarket was enough for me when my baby was a month old 🤣 they shouldn't be pressuring you, having a baby is so unpredictable, don't know how they expect you to make this decision!

I could barely take a ride to target after birth and that’s about 10 mins. 10 hours? I’d go crazy. Think about you recovering and your baby before making a decision.

If you have to make a decision now I’d say opt out. You have no idea how you and the baby are gonna be a month in. Maybe your babe will be easy eater and sleeper but you never know. Plus a ten hour car ride with a baby who needs to eat every 2-3 hours quickly turns into a 12-15 hour ride

I’m going on an 8-10 hr flight with a two month old in April. Granted she’ll be two months old not one and I will have both my sisters, my mother, and a whole team of people who will support and help me, but I didn’t give an answer until she was born... after everything went swimmingly and I got the okay from her pediatrician. It was conversation that my birth plan wouldn’t go the way I wanted because baby was growing fast and my body almost couldn’t handle it - possibly making my recovery time longer. And if she was late at all, her two month check up would be scheduled the days of the trip. (I don’t feel comfortable with her being in places with crowds of people until her 2 mo. appt personally). I told the planners I’d love to go but I wouldn’t be able to give them a yes or no until baby was born. And no matter the amount of pressure they put on me, I was firm with that answer. However, I told them they could count me out if they were really that desperate for an answer.

I went to Hawaii when my son was 4 months old. It didn’t feel like a vacation at all it was all added pressure. Staying with in-laws, keeping my son cool and out of the son, and being in a new environment. Bummer

I drove across country in 4 days! It’s very exhausting but it is doable. So you have to think if you would be stressed and not enjoy the trip or regret not going more?

I wouldn’t go if that were my family. I think it’s insensitive that they are pressuring your.

I declined attending a good friends wedding because it was a month pp and it was a good decision. I would have been so uncomfortable, it still hurt to walk and to sit, and I was still new to being a parent. Babies need so much at that age, I don't think it's a good idea personally.

I wouldn’t do it and i hope they would understand.

1 month after, most people are still bleeding heavily. I would say absolutely not.

I would say thank you for thinking of us, we are touched that you included us, but it is most important that i recover medically. Please do invite us nect time!

Thank you ladies for your input! I totally agree! I wish they asked me before booking a place. I told my husband to tell them that I won't know until after the baby is born and to stop pestering me until then.

We were supposed to go to Christmas in FL about 3 weeks after our baby was born. My siblings (from all across the country) were going to be there, it had been planned for over a year, and I really wanted to go. But I waited until after having her to decide. Ultimately we had to stay, the drive would have been way too difficult with her feeding every 3 hrs, he was a crazy slow eater (took about an hr), plus she was just so young the idea of having to change her in gas stations and exposing her to all those travel germs that early made me too worried. My husband kept asking is this vacation worth getting our newborn sick? When it was put like that, I knew my answer. I have a friend who did move 2 weeks after her baby was born. It can be done, but she said it was super difficult, it took forever to drive and she did not recommend it. Good luck! Don’t feel pressured, it’s your body recovering and your babies life, you’re the mom.