sarah
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Post by sarah on Feb 2, 2010 11:37:16 GMT -5
So, although my second is not born yet, I am hoping and praying it is very, very soon (I mean today would be good for me!), I have a question about traveling. Toward the March we will be going to my brothers wedding in GA which is about a 12 hour drive. We are planning on driving through the night with should hopefully mean my daughter who just turned 1 will sleep most of the way and our son will be about a month and a half old that that point, so the trip will end up being longer due to stops to feed him.
We will have 2 cribs in our hotel room, but I wondering do you think we will get any sleep? Our son will obviously be waking up to eat pretty regularly at that point. We do have a white noise machine we use with our daughter now, but I don't know how much help it will be when we are all in the same room.
Any have any suggestions? I am open to anything at all, just thinking about this trip makes me tired!
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Post by jesspond on Feb 2, 2010 14:27:37 GMT -5
We have done a CRAP TON of traveling, all driving, with our kids starting when I was pg and our daughter was abt 4m....they're two now and have probably been on maybe 7 trips? Yeah, we get around!  Driving through the night is an EXCELLENT idea. Even baby will likely be eating less often that way, too. As for the one hotel room thing, my best advice would be--don't. BUT....if you must, now is a good time, really, as opposed to when they're a little older and more likely to pay attention to one another/wake each other on purpose. Is the bathroom really large by any chance? We have fit a PNP or a portable tent bed (we have the Peapod ones) in a bathroom before so that one kid is shut away...then we take cd players for white noise. The problem we had was that past a certain age our kids woudln't go to sleep if they could SEE us, so sharing rooms started not working well unless we snuck in after they were asleep (in the case of condos). We drive everywhere overnight and then stay in someplace with at least a br/lvgrm so that we can seperate them/us. The peapod tents did work well, too, for putting one kid in a smaller area and still having them secure. |
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sarah
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Post by sarah on Feb 2, 2010 19:54:26 GMT -5
Part of the problem is that I have no idea what the hotel room will be like. My brothers fiance is getting the rooms for everyone as they are getting married on a beach where they met, not in a state where anyone lives. She doesn't live in the same state we do either and I have only met her once. My brother is not around, as he is in the military and deployed at the moment. The whole situation it rather odd. I really have no idea what to expect with any of this other than they are getting married on a beach and having dinner afterward at crab shack! All in all it should be interesting.
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Post by jesspond on Feb 3, 2010 0:12:14 GMT -5
Is there any way to get two rooms, or a lock-off or something maybe?
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sarah
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Post by sarah on Feb 4, 2010 13:04:54 GMT -5
I don't know, I could always try to get a hold of my brothers fiance and check. I think she already booked things though.
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Post by jesspond on Feb 4, 2010 13:42:32 GMT -5
Good luck!
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Post by Wendi on Feb 8, 2010 8:42:40 GMT -5
We used the target noise maker. It worked like a charm. We'd put our oldest down and give the other a bath. When oldest was down, we'd put youngest down and then slip into bed. With the noisemaker, it worked. When they were very little or if one is sick, I wouldn't recommend it.
Could you also ask a family member to host another of the kiddos?
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