My daughter is a traveler! We went to Washington DC last week with my mom and grandma. It was a LONG car ride and she did great. Actually I found it a lot easier to keep her close to her normal routine in the car than I did on the sight seeing days. She is so curious about everything and it was hard to get her to sleep when she knew she would miss something. This is were my parenting style helped out a lot though. I believe in baby wearing so I took two kinds of baby carriers with me, and I soon discovered that if I put her in the carrier facing me I could get her to nap. I also believe in co sleeping and I dont think my mom or grandma tought it was a great idea that I planned to put the baby in bed with me- to tell the truth I was a little nervous about it myself because Joe does a lot of the night time parenting. I was not sure how much sleep I would get but we both had plenty of room and she slept really well.
We had a good time but I was glad to get home to my husband. I love taking care of her but it is also great to have someone she will go to and be happy long enough for my to eat a bowl of cereal or take a shower.
Taking the trip- without her other parent for me to rely on- actually increased my confidence in my parenting skills. Sometimes I am afraid I do not know what I am doing, but it has gotten a lot better since she was born. In the beinning I truely did not know what I was doing. I do think it was a good thing on my part that I could admit that I did not know what I was doing though.
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