If the thought of traveling with your baby makes you nervous, you’re not alone. I’ve had the pre-trip jitters every single time we traveled with Baby A during her first year, from her very first cross-country road trip at 2 months old to her first international flight at 6 months old. But here’s the good news: every single trip went much more smoothly than my panic-induced, sleep-deprived anxiety spirals imagined they would!
It turns out that traveling with a baby is just like having a baby at home: both terrifying and exhausting and also a LOT of fun and completely, totally worth the effort!
After traveling a bunch with our little one all through her first year, we’ve got a ton of tips for traveling with babies – and we’ve made plenty of mistakes so you won’t have to! This post covers all of the essentials for traveling with a baby, plus a few things to leave at home (but not the baby – it’s very important to bring the baby, no matter how sleep deprived you might be).
Psst: Need some packing advice for yourself? We’ve got LOADS of packing guides for people who aren’t babies! (And I wrote them before baby brain destroyed my ability to think clearly!) Start here or take a look at these:
Tips for Traveling with a Baby
After taking a few international trips, road trips, and domestic trip, we managed to dial in our baby travel strategy … just in time for her to walk her way right into toddlerhood, which is whole new set of challenges (sigh). But now we can hand down our tried and tested baby travel tips to you!
Here’s the thing about traveling with a baby, though: there’s a lot of prep work. Like, things you’ll want to do at home WELL before a trip. If you incorporate some of these into your daily life, it’ll make travel SO much easier.
In a nutshell, you’ll want to get baby as used to new environments as possible by exposing them to new places often. Take them to restaurants, to museums, to friend’s houses, to lakes and pools and on various forms of transit. It will help them cope with new…
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