Debating on whether or not to bring almost 6 month old baby with to Vegas

blueyedgypsy5

My husband and I have an opportunity to go to Vegas at the end of November to shoot a wedding for a friend. The trip would be from Thursday morning til Subday afternoon. My son will be almost 6mo old and til then I plan on him being EBF. We don't know whether or not to bring him with! On one hand I think it would be best for him to stay with my parents and we would be able to enjoy ourselves but on the other hand I think that I would miss him too much (and him me) and I don't want to risk hurting my supply and him refusing the breast after I get back... Help!

pinottoparenthood

That's a long time to be without LO, particularly if you are EBFing. You can pump the whole time, but to me that's a bigger pain than breastfeeding. That's a LOT of pumping. Something else to keep in mind... all of the casinos in Vegas allow smoking indoors, and a lot of hotels have casinos in them, so I wouldn't want to stay in a hotel with my baby where people were smoking inside. I think I would bring LO, stay away from casino hotels, and when I wasn't shooting the wedding, I would check out some hiking, the Grand Canyon, etc. and stay away from the Vegas night scene altogether. I am also EBFing, and I just don't think I would want to be away/pump for that long. But that's just my opinion, you do whatever is best for you! Once LO is weaned, I definitely want to take a trip with just DH to reconnect and leave LO with the grandparents!

kmc84

Ditto to pp!

MrsG071809

I agree with PP.  I had to travel for work recently, and it was just 3 days/2 nights but I ended up bringing LO (and my mom) with me, rather than leave her.  (1) I didn't have enough milk in my stash for the whole time I was gone, (2) At the time she was nursing to sleep every night and I was worried about someone else putting her to bed, (3) I didn't want to have to pump that much, especially with having work to do the whole time.  So if it were me, I would probably bring LO, but like PP said don't expect it to be a typical Vegas trip.  Would you bring someone with you to watch LO while you are shooting the wedding?

poppyc8

I've traveled twice in the past month with my LO and it went really well so I would say take him. Everyone told me the 4-7 month old range is the easiest time to travel since they aren't all over the place crawling yet. For my work trip I had a family member watch him during the day while I had a 9-5 meeting . I brought 4 pumped milk bottles on the plane packed in ice in a cooler. I called the hotel in advance to make sure they had a pack n play or crib. The one thing I regretted was they had no fitted crib sheet so next time I would travel with my own sheet. We ended up co sleeping instead due to the lack of sheets.