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re: OT Parents: How old to take first vacation without baby/child?
Posted on 6/2/15 at 2:23 pm to EveryonesACoach
Posted on 6/2/15 at 2:23 pm to EveryonesACoach
Your wife (and possibly you as well) will enjoy it the first day then miss her terribly the second day and be miserable by the third day.
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Posted on 6/2/15 at 2:24 pm to EveryonesACoach
If you can pull it off an drop the kid with grandparents, do it. You and the wife need that time away.
Until recently we lived on the west coast with very little family interaction between my daughter and our families. She would ave major anxiety when family came out to visit b/c they were essentially strangers. It would take 2 or 3 days before she would warm up and interact with them without my wife or I being nearby.
Invest that time early on with your family so both the kid and whomever you leave them with is comfortable or you will regret it later.
My daughter has never spend a night away from us and she will be 3 in July.
We do still vacation but the kid comes with us and we don't go to the same destinations we did before the kid.
Until recently we lived on the west coast with very little family interaction between my daughter and our families. She would ave major anxiety when family came out to visit b/c they were essentially strangers. It would take 2 or 3 days before she would warm up and interact with them without my wife or I being nearby.
Invest that time early on with your family so both the kid and whomever you leave them with is comfortable or you will regret it later.
My daughter has never spend a night away from us and she will be 3 in July.
We do still vacation but the kid comes with us and we don't go to the same destinations we did before the kid.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 2:24 pm to tgrbaitn08
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by 10 months I would assume they baby will be walking or close to walking....make sure you leave her with someone that will watch every move she makes....at that age they can get into some mischief if you don't watch them closely.
Solid advice. If possible, have your parents or in-laws watch the baby at your house. (Presumably) already childproofed, and baby is more familiar with surroundings and more likely to sleep/be happy. Bonus, if you return at some godawful hour of the night you don't have to pick up the baby in the middle of the night or make a special trip to get it the next day.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 2:26 pm to EveryonesACoach
Not to early and yes.. You will miss her and have regrets occasionally while vacationing.. But it's worth it..
Posted on 6/2/15 at 2:29 pm to Croacka
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In 2 weeks the wife and I are taking our first vacation since having kids My kids are 10 and 4
Similar ages and we've never taken more than an overnight away.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 2:36 pm to EveryonesACoach
Why not just take the kid? If she is only 10 months it could be pretty fun and memorable.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 2:41 pm to trident
quote:Some vacations are just not kid friendly.
Why not just take the kid?
Posted on 6/2/15 at 2:45 pm to EveryonesACoach
We were going to leave our one year old for 5 days with grandma while we went to Ibiza, this summer.
shite came up so we are looking at Australia in February for 2 weeks
shite came up so we are looking at Australia in February for 2 weeks
Posted on 6/2/15 at 3:10 pm to Winkface
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How do you survive? How's your mental health?
Humans have been on earth for what, about 100k years? People have felt the need to take vacations without their kids for about .1% of that time? I think we will be ok.
Seriously, I like my kids. My wife likes them too.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 3:12 pm to EveryonesACoach
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I'm batting around the idea of taking a maybe a three day trip with the wife sometime this fall, something like a leave Wednesday come back Saturday. Our daughter will be around 10 months old by then. We have my parents here in BR, and her parents in NO, where we'd fly out from presumably. So, is 10 months too young to leave our baby with family for a few nights? How did you and your husband/wife handle your first significant time away from the kids?
As long as you are comfortable with who is keeping her, I don't see an issue. You might want to break the ice before that with a couple of nights away from her closer to home though.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 3:51 pm to EveryonesACoach
quote:pun?
chest freezer
Posted on 6/2/15 at 4:45 pm to Croacka
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In 2 weeks the wife and I are taking our first vacation since having kids
My kids are 10 and 4
My wife and I have an 8 year old and 1 year old. I can still count on my fingers how many times my wife and I have even gotten as far as going eat out alone, much less going on a date since we've been together.
Some of that is our fault because we enjoy hanging out with our kids, but we just don't have anyone trustworthy within a 90 minute drive from us.
Posted on 6/2/15 at 5:10 pm to Fight4LSU
I think the first time we went away for multiple days was when our daughter was a little over a year. We spent 3 days in NYC for our 5th anniversary, and our daughter was almost 15 months old. She spent one night at one grandmother's house and two at the other's house. It was fun for everyone, without it being too much work on either of them. I think my Mom kept her first, and then my wife's mom. We had let her spend the night with them before several times, but just when we were going out on a date or with friends and would be getting back late. And we were always in town if something came up and we needed to go pick her up. Since then we took a 3 day trip to New Orleans where the grandparents did the same thing. That was when she was 3. And we took a few shorter trips for a night or two.
I'll just say that it is much, much easier to convince someone to watch your kids overnight or for multiple nights when there is only one. Now that our 2nd is almost two years old, I don't think we've been on a trip without either of them. My mother in law works full time so it is tiring for her chasing around two wild kids so she only likes to keep them for a night and day at the most.
I'll just say that it is much, much easier to convince someone to watch your kids overnight or for multiple nights when there is only one. Now that our 2nd is almost two years old, I don't think we've been on a trip without either of them. My mother in law works full time so it is tiring for her chasing around two wild kids so she only likes to keep them for a night and day at the most.
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