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Travel/Visiting Family with 2 young ones - sleeping ?s

My family lives several states away and we see them a couple times a year (4 maybe).  My mom up until this point had borrowed a PNP from a friend but now she needs to get one of her own because her friend needs it back.  I am sending her some suggestions on PNPs when I started thinking about what we are going to do when #2 is here and we visit which will be probably in the spring.  

What would be your recommendation for sleeping?  Have her get 2 PNPs?  I am thinking she could do 1 PNP and 1 RNP but then she owns a RNP which has a very limited life.  By the time we visit again later next year, #2 will be out of the RNP and will need another option.  Maybe by then my toddler will be ready for a big girl bed but my mom lives in a townhome and there are lots of stairs and it's certainly not toddler/baby safe.  I think we'd want to keep her confined for sleeping until she is at least 3, if not longer.  

Something portable is more practical because she doesn't really want to have a dedicated fullsize crib in her house for the rest of the year when we aren't visiting.   

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!!!  

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Re: Travel/Visiting Family with 2 young ones - sleeping ?s

  • When DS  was born and needed the PNP, my DD started sleeping in a pea pod whenever we traveled.  She was about 15 months the first time.  
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  • I'd probably hold off on having her buy anything until you are ready to visit.  You may want your daughter confined until 3 but she may start escaping before then.  DD started climbing out of the PNP at 19 months, then soon after the crib.  If you're nervous about the stairs then take a baby gate or shut the door to the room she is sleeping in.

     

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  • I've seen the Peapod and that might work great for us.  

    I also think that the second poster made a good point about getting out of the PNP or crib.  I'll have my mom get 1 PNP because we are definitely going to need 1 for sure and then wait and see next year.  I envision my DD being a climber because of her tendencies already so we'll see!   

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  • Do you fly or drive when you go to visit?  If you are driving you could take a RNP with you.  How do you feel about co-sleeping?  With my kids we usually ended up with 1 in bed with us while traveling.  This summer for our vacation we took the RNP for the younger one.  Older DD was already in a twin bed at home (just about 2yrs old) so I didn't think she'd be too comfy in a pack-n-play.  We brought a twin sized aerobed with us and just put her on the floor.  She wasn't confined but you could always get a baby gate for the room.
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  • We have a couple of toddler cots we use when we travel. You could get one of those and a PnP for your little one.

     

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  • imageMom2Mack1:
    I'd probably hold off on having her buy anything until you are ready to visit.  You may want your daughter confined until 3 but she may start escaping before then.  DD started climbing out of the PNP at 19 months, then soon after the crib.  If you're nervous about the stairs then take a baby gate or shut the door to the room she is sleeping in.

    This was us with DD1 - She started crib diving at 18 months old, so we had no choice but take her out of her crib.

    My mom has a spare mattress she lays on the floor for DD1 when we visit, and DD2 sleeps in a bassinet my mom got from a friend. My mom got a baby gate since the bedrooms are all upstairs. 

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