Roadtrip thoughts 🚙

Oh man. You're brave. I wouldn't do that trip drive with any child less than 6 years old--given how many times you'll have to stop.

If you're following seatbelt laws PERFECTLY, and you're OK with A LOT of crying, you'll have to stop like every 1 or 2 hours....feeding, diaper changing, stretching.

You will likely end up taking the baby out of their car seat while driving...otherwise, you'll be driving forever and might go insane.

Is there ANY way you can fly?

It's not so much a matter of how often you SHOULD stop, but a matter of how many times you'll HAVE to stop.

TO BE CLEAR. BABY SHOULD BE IN A CARSEAT WHILE THE CAR IS MOVING.

My point was, I know people who go on long road trips that do this as they didn't anticipate how much the baby will cry. people sometimes make poor choices when they have been on the road for many hours with a crying baby.

Not condoning it, stop blasting me people!

With a 3 month old. Stopping at least every hour. When my kids were 3 months old we’d check on them every 20/30mins during car journeys. I really hated car journeys when they were that young as there’s soo much to worry about.There’s the risk of being too warm, too comfortable, uncomfortable, inconsolable. 😭

I can’t imagine driving 2 hours straight and not checking on my toddler let alone a 3 month old.

If you’re driving and you’ve not heard the baby for 45mins. Do you carry on driving?

When I first attempted a roadtrip with kids, I had one 10 month old. At that point his naps were consolidated to 3 a day and he was wetting about half the diapers that he did at 3 months. We still managed to turn a 3.5 hour drive into a 9 hour drive. If you can fly instead or skip this trip, I would. Or maybe break it up into 3 or 4 days each way?

I love it 😀 take turns taking care of the baby and check on the baby every 1 hour .

Might take longer than 17 hours. I say stop frequently and give baby a rest from the car seat, take her out let her get some cuddles and massage her head because it will be flattening after all that time against the car seat.

My trip wasn’t such a long trip, but 6 hours turns into 8.5-ish hours… feeding while the gas is pumping and diaper changes every 2-3 hours

I did a 12hr trip when my LO was 3mo. We left early enough in the morning that he slept for a lot of the beginning and napped quite a bit throughout. We had to stop for an hour each time though to feed and change and stuff 2 or 3 times. It was tough when there were longer stretches he was awake and cried until the next stop. BUT ALSO what we didn’t think about was how different the trip back would be after a week and a half because so much changes in their development/sleep in such little time. He was awake longer in between naps and the naps got shorter, so there wasn’t a chance he was going to last as long in the car seat anymore and we were so ready to get home, so I flew back with him and my husband drove.

When my boy was 2 months we took a trip that was 13 hrs. We broke the drive up into 3 days. First day drive was supposed to be 5 hrs and it took 8. I think we added about 3 hours on to each trip from stopping to feed him and get out of the car seat for a bit. I sat in the back with him the whole time and that definitely helped. I wouldn't recommend going straight through for 17hrs. Another trip i took with my parents was 10 hrs and we didn't get to stop for the night and it ended up taking 13 or 14 hours and my baby was so unhappy. I felt bad and we ended up having to stop more time on the road for little breaks.
Definitely bring toys and books to engage and keep baby company while she's awake.

Also dont let any of these comments stress you out and worry. You got this and it'll be great memories with your family. Baby will be fine, they go in cars all the time. You'll know when it's time to pull over and take a break. Every baby and situation is different, you know your baby and can read her ques.
We normally didn't stop every hour just when it was time to eat or he got to fussy and wouldn't calm down till he was out of the seat. These little pause can make the trip more enjoyable and memorable if you let them. Go in to the visitor centers, stop at cool signs and place, take lots of pictures. It's so worth the trip❤️ no stress girl, y'all got this

You can do it with lots of stops, but honestly, it would be less stressful on everyone to fly. Flying with baby at 3 months is pretty easy and it would be significantly faster than driving.
I just did an 8 hour road trip with my kids and we split it into 2 days. Made it significantly less stressful and my kids are almost 3 and 5.5. We still stopped every 1.5-2 hours for potty breaks