I'm curious if/when everyone is going to travel after LO is born. Thanksgiving and Christmas will be right around the corner. Will those be their first trips? Or are you making additional trips to visit family? How far will you be travelling and how long will you be staying?
We are planning to spend Christmas with my family about 5 hours away but Thanksgiving will be no farther than an hour. I'm not sure if we're going to plan any other trips before then. I know my FIL won't come out to visit LO (he has poor eyesight so it's not safe for him to drive long distances) and his first opportunity to see him/her will be Christmas. I don't know if I want to make an extra trip or even when we'll be up for it.
I'm curious what you have planned!
Re: Travel after LO is born
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I will however be going to SF in mid January to stay with my family for 1 month so they can have time with our LO!! I just feel better traveling that far on a plane after the baby has had its 2 month check up.
Next year will be when all the drama starts, because I want LO to have Christmas at home, but we will be expected to drag him and all the presents DH's family exchanges to SC and back. NOPE. His parents are retired, they can come up here.
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We will travel about 4 hours for both Christmas and Thanksgiving. Both of our families are in the same city, so it's convenient that we can get to both of them at each trip. I am a little nervous about a long car ride, but I think it will probably be fine! My dr seems to think that if LO comes before SIL's wedding, we can travel the 6 hours to that as well...not so sure about that since her wedding is 2 days before my EDD.
We might make the trip for Thanksgiving this year- if everything is going well and we're feeling up to it. We still are trying to figure out how to best approach Christmas b/c our older son is starting to be more aware of holidays and we want him to be at his house for part of the celebration.
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My experiences traveling with an infant have been great, but toddler travel has been rough! MIL and SIL's are meeting us in Disney so we'll have a few days of extended family time while we're away.
We will travel for Thanksgiving, about 2.5 hours. We may do Christmas at our house this year as we'll be in a new house. My Mom is pushing for us to host Christmas, with her help of course.
I intend to travel quite a few weekends after the baby is born to spend time with my IL's who live 2.5 miles away. I did this with DS, we first travelled by car 2.5 hours when he was about 3 weeks old or so without DH. We were fine. DS slept most of the way and we only had one explosive diaper.
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We live in FL and as of right now, my parents live only a block away from us and SO and I both work for my parents company, so seeing them for Holidays and immediately after birth is a given. (Most my extended family is in the same county as us as well) However, my IL's retired in May and moved to TN, the rest of my SO others family is in PA....this is where the problem lies....
His folks plan on coming down the 2nd week of Sept and not leaving till after the girls are born (AHHHHHHH!!!!!, thankfully they still have a home in FL so we don't need to house them!!) MIL is has been pressuring us for 'visitation' since she found out we were preggo....um OUR KIDS not yours...she wants us to fly or drive to TN for all holidays, birthdays, and send the girls to spend all summers there....I DON'T THINK SO! They are retired->they can come to us.
His extended family, most of which I have never met, will just have to come to FL. I don't know them and I am not sending my girls to visit them with just my MIL. (she also thinks that will happen-NOT!)
For T-day I'm less worried about the who, what, when, where-- as long as we arent leaving the state...For Christmas, we will stay at home and celebrate our new family, just the 4 of us. If other family insist on seeing us (which they will) they can come visit before the holiday.
We do have a trip planned to my in-laws for newborn/family///// photos when Kid2 is about a month old. That's 2 1/2 hours away.
For Christmas, we stay home and my in-laws usually come which will probably happen again this year.