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s/o co-sleeping... on vacation?
I posted below that I co-slept with LO last night as he's sick and wants to cuddle with me. I loved having him right next to me and I now know why so many of my friends co-sleep. I also posted that MH was never eager to start co-sleeping as we are both heavy sleepers and I move around quite a bit. I also think that MH doesn't want it to become a long term thing? Anyway... LO and I slept together in the guest bedroom last night so it was just me and him 
Anyway, this has me thinking about our upcoming trip to Hawaii. What if we co-slept on vacation... would it be hard to have him go back in his crib when we get home? He has always slept great in his crib from one month old so I wouldn't want to jeaoperdize his sleeping habits. I just wonder how he'll sleep in Hawaii and what that portable crib thing that the hotel provides will be like. I guess we'll find out soon enough... we leave in 2 weeks!
TIA and happy weekend!
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Re: s/o co-sleeping... on vacation?
Since we've always co-slept, I found it particularly helpful on vacation (no worrying about what kind of crib they provide, if it's clean, etc), but it does mean LO going down later and us going down earlier. Since I've been thinking about trying to get him in his crib lately, I often wonder about how it would work while traveling. Looking forward to other answers to your post!
We've only been out of town once since E was born. Since she sleeps in the crib in her room, we took our moses basket with us when we traveled. We stuck with the same bedtime routine (we made a makeshift bath tub from a huge beer bucket we have at home lol) and it did not make a difference at all with the way that she slept. Now, since you'll be in Hawaii, you'll have to deal with time difference and what not so you may have to make some adjustments.
Yes! The time change concerns me a bit... 3 hours behind Vancouver time. So his bed time will be 4'ish Hawaii time and wake up at 4'ish... LOL! We'll have to keep him up as late as possible to adjust him I'm assuming. I just hope it goes well
We'll stick with our routine as much as possible and see how he sleeps in the portable crib I guess 
Nicole also offered to let us borrow her PNP 
I love Hawaii!
Tara & Ian . 4/24/2008 . The Kahala Planning . Married
My boss who has 3 little kids went to Hawaii last year. He said they're all up at 4 in the morning lol. However, DC is 6 hrs ahead so hopefully the 3 hr time difference from Vancouvr shouldn't be as bad. I think Jacob will be fine. Prior to our trip, E barely used the moses basket but she did not have any problems sleeping on it when we traveled. That's soo nice of Nicole to have you borrow her PnP :-).
We don't co-sleep, mainly because we only have a full-sized bed at the moment and there's just no room for LO. MH also wasn't too keen on the idea. I noticed that LO doesn't sleep very well the few times we've napped together on the bed because I tend to move around when I sleep and it wakes him up.
Anyway, you can definitely try out our PnP, but if J wakes up at 4AM due to the time difference, it might be easier to just bring him to bed with you until you're all ready to be up for the day? J seems like such a go-with-the-flow baby so I'm sure he'll do okay sleeping in the PnP. If you do end up co-sleeping while in Hawaii, I'm thinking he'll go back to his crib once he's back in the familiar settings of home and his own room.
And hooray for 2 weeks!!!
Squeee!!!
I love Hawaii!
Tara & Ian . 4/24/2008 . The Kahala Planning . Married
We bedshared until Libby was 1 and haven't travelled since then. That said, we bedshared when we travelled too and I think it really helped her to feel like we had a "normal" routine when we were away from home.
If you really don't want to bedshare (it might make transitioning back to a crib difficult once you're home again) you can convert your suitcase to a little bassinet (Google it), bring a pack 'n' play or travel bed, or see if your resort has cribs (check them for safety though...). Another option is renting baby gear (PnP, etc.) from the place you're visiting.
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personally i wouldn't want to mess him up so i'd keep him sleeping separately (esp if you're heavy sleepers). they seem to adjust to sleeping in the PnP just fine.... you'd be surprised how adaptable they are
just don't add anything to it (even if it feels like the "mattress" is hard) - they prefer that b/c it's like their crib mattress
re: time change..... they say babies adjust fairly well due to the changes in daylight but since it's 3 hrs i'd adjust him by 1 hr before the trip (or split the difference and make it 1.5 hrs)... move his bedtime to 15 min later each night over 4 nights until he is going to bed 1-1.5 hrs later. that way when you go to hawaii it's only a "2 hour" time difference. we've flown to CA several times and the 2 hr time change seems ok for her, we've never had issues w/her waking 2 hrs earlier in the AM!
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We bring the PnP but he always just ends up co-sleeping because he's not really used to the PnP for sleeping, so we end up just using the PnP as something on the side of the bed to catch him if he rolls off =P
I bought an inflatable bed rail now though. We're using it on our bed and I'm planning to bring it on our next trip.
He has no issues going back to the crib when we get back home. He never (and still doesn't) really liked his crib but he deals with it and will sleep in there for 10hrs with no issues at night. It's usually the naps in the cribs that have always been the issue for us but I don't think that's affected by co-sleeping at night (but more because he just hates napping during the day).
this is J too!
He goes back and forth really easily and we just go with the flow, if he wakes up he sleeps with us at home and on vacation, it never seems to interfere with him going down in his crib the next night. The time difference is more of an issue for us (when going to visit the ILs). I try to keep him on the same schedule, but it gets thrown off b/c he ends up overtired (even though he sleeps a lot on the plane and in the car I don't think it's quality sleep) after the LONG day of travel.
Inamra - as for naps, I totally thank the 12-24mo room J was moved to at daycare. They sleep on mats at a set time everyday (after lunch at 11am, so asleep by 11:40). He watched all the other kids and somehow it just clicked - sleep isn't scary and he won't miss anything. Now he's easily napping 2 hours there and in his crib at home (on the weekends). woohoo!