Has anyone gone on vacation with their baby? If, so how was it?

My partner wants to take me to Jamaica for my 33rd birthday. But im having trouble finding a sitter. My granma, who is 71, volunteered to watch her. I'm nervous that my granma will have a hard time keeping up with the baby. She has been the baby once a week already but never 4 days in a row. I really want to go on this trip without my daughter, but i feel so guilty for saying that. I don't really have anyone to watch her. So, we may just go with her. Btw we do plan on traveling with her in the future. I just wanted to enjoy this trip and be a bad girl lol.

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If you bring baby, you probably wouldn’t enjoy. Beach + very young babies = a nightmare for ME. I’ve done it once. 😂

I agree with Olivia, but your baby would probably be too young to remember this trip.

Is there somewhere closer you guys could go? Grandma would probably be overwhelmed since she is only used to one day.

Is it possible to bring your grandma to jamaica and she can “nanny” your baby in the hotel?

We’ve taken her to Australia, Barbados and Austria 🏝️ 🍹 ☀️

Amazing fun! Yeah, the flight could be a pain if baby is a bad traveller. Yeah, you don’t get a lie in. BUT the holiday is so worth it. So many beautiful memories and firsts 💜 we did an all inclusive for a week and hired a car, had pina coladas and taught her to walk on the sand, best memory of the year for me.

We went to Vegas with our baby for a wedding I couldn’t leave her with just anyone! She was about 5 months old and did so well on the plane, she didn’t even cry. It wasn’t to bad of a trip.

Yes ive travel to Georgia and Florida with her. She did well on the plane. Its just mama needs a vacation lol. I will take her on more future trips, just this birthday trip I would love some adult time. Thank you ladies ! ❤️

We have traveled... I did a family lake week at 3 months. Husband couldn't come but there were 5+ kids and 20+ adults so I had help.

Christmas we traveled to my parents as well as new Orleans. I'm curious how old baby is... Younger and less mobile can be easier. Cities I find work too cause we can stroller or backpack and still see things.

And no shame on an adults or mama trip. Anyway you can try testing gma for longer to see how she would handle it?

We went a month to Argentina end of year and spent one week at the beach. Both the flight and trip were smooth sailing and wouldn’t change having our baby there for anything.
I think I’d be more nervous that babe is so far wouldn’t be able to enjoy.
Follow whatever your gut is telling you!

@Sharon, yes, Im torn leaving behind as well. I am and have gotten nervous being far away from her for twos. I can't imagine what 4 days would feel like.

she is 18 months

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im hurting sm and i can sometimes be too in my head, idk

So today, my boyfriend watched my baby for almost three hours while I got my lashes done. I never did something like that and im 5m pp, so it was a big deal, but I appreciated it so much. Then he worked all day, like, from 3 to maybe 8. And when he came in the room, I said let's cuddle tonight (he’s been so distant and admitted it and knows its hurting me, so i straight up said it in a fun way to initiate even tho i’d want him to) and he's just always really high, but he said okay. First we ate dinner, and he hardly touched or kissed me or anything. He didnt really compliment my lashes either besides making a comment on how much they were.

And then we were upstairs, and I said I wanted to cuddle, in a playful way, and I sat on him, and he pulled me off of him and was, saying to lay next to him and not on top of him, but, like, I don't know, like, I felt kind of rejected and then I said that, and then nothing changed. he doesnt touch my butt or anything much anymore. And then our baby fell asleep in his arms, and I told him to put her in the bassinet, and he said no, because she'll wake up. And so he fell asleep cuddling her, and now I'm downstairs alone, and I just feels like, our connection is gone on his end and not mine. like i wasnt even dropping hints or testing him i was initiating closeness for him to brush it off.

It's all weird now and he gets really high too, but, he used to be hands all over me and I even said it to him today, I miss that, and then he like awkwardly put his hands on me. Like, I miss the guy who loved me, and I wanna say all this. But it pushes him away more please thoughts

Cancelling Easter…

So my step son (11) lives with us full time we’ve started with an issue of him stealing little stuff from school, taking his brothers clothes from his mums here without anyone knowing ect but now
He’s also got the habit of taking chocolate and crisps out the kitchen to the point of he’s eating all my 1 year olds snacks like the 6month+ wafers and then he’s got no snacks. I’m buying loads of stuff to last us the month and he’s going through them within less then a week 🫠 (he never gets told no to snacks either unless it’s just before a meal then he gets told to wait until after hes ate)
He has now gone through all the chocolate we hid for Easter that was also his two little brothers and he’s gone through the stuff my mum brought round for them. So now iv got just over a week with hardly any money to try and get all the Easter stuff back. We’ve sat and spoke about it and why he feels like need to just take and we get a “i don’t know” or “it’s just snacks”

My thing is should I re buy him Easter stuff or leave it as a “you’ve already had you Easter early behind our backs” he’s not missing out completely because he has Easter at his mums but I feel like there’s nothing more we can do other then put locks on cabinets so he can’t get in them but that’s just stopping him from getting to the thing he wants not necessarily him learning 🤷🏻‍♀️
My partners just in that “can’t be arsed” “just replace it” where we have 1 child together and 2 step children and a baby on the way so just constantly going out and replacing stuff really isn’t happening ☹️ he’s agreeing with not giving him anything for Easter but I feel guilty about it but he has teqnically had his Easter + more…

We have also spoken to his mum about it and she just says she has locks on the doors and she did it as a kid and laughs about it which just feels like shes validating what he’s doing.

Sorry for the rant just wanted to see other people opinions and views as I feel so guilty to cancel Easter for him but at the same time we don’t have the money to re buy everything he’s gone through 🫠