I remembered finding the Robert Goulet sketches hilarious as a kid. I pulled one up to show my husband and was not prepared to hear Will Ferrel yelling the N word at me like I owed him money.
My husband and I are considering taking our two month old on a trip to see our family, which would be 16 hours. We've made this drive many times since moving away, but this would be the first time with a baby. We're both off work rn so we're prepared to break up the trip over as many days as necessary, but we're both still a little worried about it. She seems to really like being in her car seat but has never been in it longer than a walk around our neighborhood or trip to the doctor. We also aren't sure how to go about preparing formula on the road. We're combo feeding so ill be able to nurse her for most of our stops, but my production is a little low so we would need formula. We've been boiling water to make her bottles but obviously couldnt do that on the road, so what have others done? Have any of you made long road trips with babies this young, and do you have any advice/think it isnt worth it?
She hasn't met any of our friends and family yet, so we would really love to bring her, but dont want to risk it if its going to be too hard for her and us. We have a pediatrician appointment shortly before we would need to leave so we'll be sure to get their opinion on everything before making a final decision.
My baby is about 2 months old and for the past month or so we have had a hell of a time getting her to sleep. We're exhausted. She will only sleep if shes being held, as soon as we transfer her she wakes up. She used to sleep just fine in her bassinet in the living room, regardless of noise or lights. Now anything seems to wake her up. We've started putting her down in the upstairs bassinet. We've tried to keep things as calm as possible, turning out the lights, putting on white noise, lowering/raising the temp, changing outfits, nothing seems to work. And when she wakes up, shes so upset about being put down that it can take forever to calm her down. We spend basically the whole day trying to get her to sleep, we're lucky if she squeezes in 4 hours collectively. Then shes so overtired at night that its even more of a struggle to get her to sleep. Usually she'll at least stay asleep longer at night, but she rarely clocks in more than 10 hours altogether over the day and night. She seems so tired so much of the time but she wakes up so easily. Im worried about her not getting enough rest, but i cant figure out how to help her. Im a FTM so im not sure if im overreacting, or maybe theres some obvious trick im missing. I'd love to hear any tips anyone has for dealing with this, but also needed to vent because this has me so stressed.