Holiday with nearly 2 year old!

We are going on holiday in June. My daughter turns 2 in July! We are going to Gran Canaria, all inclusive, but I have a few questions - nappies what is everyone doing about these? Am I packing them or buying them at duty free? Milk - she has milk in the morning and before bed? What am I doing about this? It’s whole milk, but I have no idea how this one will work? Did you stick to routines or just go with the flow, both my husband and I work so we will need to return once the fun is over… Any other tips. The more I think about it the more daunting I’m finding the prospect even tho I am really excited.

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I would pack them as I forgot to pick up my order from Boots duty free and realised when we took off lol
Milk I just gave him the milk there, I asked them before if it was whole cows milk. But I seen someone on TikTok take the long life carton milk. Not sure if they are good or not.
Routines go out the window when you're on holiday. I had my own new routine on holiday where after breakfast me and toddler went to pool side and have a nap lol. He wouldn't have his milk or usual breakfast there as it was a new environment. So we just let him have things from the buffets, restaurants. Enjoy it and don't worry about routines, feeds etc. it's just a week or so. Xx

Gran Canaria has spas and huperdinos which you can get most things at. I went on a 2 week cruise to the canaries and I just packed nappies at the bottom of the suitcase. Most hotels I been to over the years always have a milk station where they have UTC milk or goats milk as canaries have goats

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Why do people have such audacity?!

On vacation with my husband & our youngest baby (10 months). We’re walking down the street & this older lady sees my baby walking & asks how old she was & I answer. Then she says look at that hair & touches her head then immediately pats me on the back & says congratulations. While I’m sure there was good intent, why do random people feel entitled to touching a strangers baby?! It happened so quickly I didn’t even get a chance to react before realizing what had transpired. Would this peeve you?

Pushchair vs carrycot

Has anybody put their bay in the seat attachment yet or are they still in the carry cot. My baby is really nosey and I feel like she’d benefit from being in the pushchair attachment so that she can see but I still feel like she’s small and should be in the carrycot. I know people with older babies who are still in the carrycot so I’m just not sure.

She cries when she’s in the carry cot but is really happy when I pick her up and she can look around. Think part of it is I’m not ready for her to be in the pushchair as it makes her seem like a bigger baby than she is.

Any advice would be appreciated

Baby sleeping in next to me

My baby is 12 weeks old and we mostly cosleep. When we Co sleep he wakes 2 times in the night (bed 11pm - first wake 4am - second wake 6:30am), but when I put him to sleep in the next to me crib he wakes up every 45mins. He is breastfed. Any advice on helping him sleep longer stretches in the crib please.

Do you think if I just completely stop cosleeping he’ll eventually sleep longer in the next to me ?

3 year old keeps touching our hips

Our 3 year old (boy) keeps touching and pinching my husbands and my hip. We keep telling him no but he doesn’t listen and it probably happens at least 10x daily. I can’t find anything about it on dr. Google - does anyone else deal with this and what to do?

Night wakes

Please help😔 my 8 mo has always been a good sleeper, with maybe one wake up through the night but a quick soothe or dummy would send her back to sleep.

At the moment she is waking up shortly after putting her down screaming, I calm her down and get her back to sleep or she will self soothe. She’s then waking again every night for 2-3 hours straight between 1 and 5am and I do not know what to do. I’ve tried everything, cuddles, getting in her cot with her, calpol & ibruprofen (she’s teething), chilled teething rings, Ashtons teething powder, gels everything.

She wakes up screaming, I’ll soothe her but then she just screams bloody murder if I walk out her room so I’m literally sitting in her room with her during the night and I’m exhausted.

I really don’t want to co sleep because I don’t want her to get used to being back in our room then having more issues down the line with her not settling in her room because she’s done so well adapting to being in there

Anyone have any tips or tricks to get them back to sleep? She’s literally wide awake, I’ll try anything at this point, it’s really upsetting me how sad she is during the night😔

Is it normal for my 2 month old to spit up every time I feed her

Thanks in advance