Comments on: Your Questions Answered – Plane or Car for Travels with Baby http://travelingmamas.com/2008/10/17/your-questions-answered-plane-or-car-for-travels-with-baby/ Family travel, girlfriend getaways, romantic escapes, solo trips -- these four moms cover it all. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:51:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Keith http://travelingmamas.com/2008/10/17/your-questions-answered-plane-or-car-for-travels-with-baby/#comment-5323 Keith Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:18:13 +0000 http://travelingmamas.com/?p=1346#comment-5323 It hasn't been mentioned, but I suppose it goes without saying ... there MUST be someone else in the car besides you and your baby. (I speak as one who had £3000 worth of damage done to his car, when it was hit by a mother attending to her child while she was driving.) It hasn’t been mentioned, but I suppose it goes without saying … there MUST be someone else in the car besides you and your baby.

(I speak as one who had £3000 worth of damage done to his car, when it was hit by a mother attending to her child while she was driving.)

]]> By: Kristy Hall http://travelingmamas.com/2008/10/17/your-questions-answered-plane-or-car-for-travels-with-baby/#comment-5310 Kristy Hall Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:37:59 +0000 http://travelingmamas.com/?p=1346#comment-5310 This is a great question! We struggle with this issue every time we visit the family in Maine (a seven hour drive). We generally drive to save the expense of renting car on the other end. We try to stop as often as we can and will stop overnight if we need to. At 21 months, he does seem to be getter a little more "distractable" with toys and videos. Of course it can't get worse than last Christmas when we didn't even get through the Holland Tunnel (about 2 miles from our house!) before he vomited all over the back seat. That was a a very long day! This is a great question! We struggle with this issue every time we visit the family in Maine (a seven hour drive). We generally drive to save the expense of renting car on the other end. We try to stop as often as we can and will stop overnight if we need to. At 21 months, he does seem to be getter a little more “distractable” with toys and videos. Of course it can’t get worse than last Christmas when we didn’t even get through the Holland Tunnel (about 2 miles from our house!) before he vomited all over the back seat. That was a a very long day!

]]> By: soultravelers3 http://travelingmamas.com/2008/10/17/your-questions-answered-plane-or-car-for-travels-with-baby/#comment-5308 soultravelers3 Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:35:20 +0000 http://travelingmamas.com/?p=1346#comment-5308 Good one! We did all traveling by car with out daughter when she was a baby and toddler. She always hated the carseat ( from birth!) so it was a challenge, but we managed. We did a lot of traveling at night as soon as she was asleep. We also had a pillow case filled with small toys and books to pass to her to keep her occupied when confined in car seat. Good one! We did all traveling by car with out daughter when she was a baby and toddler. She always hated the carseat ( from birth!) so it was a challenge, but we managed.

We did a lot of traveling at night as soon as she was asleep. We also had a pillow case filled with small toys and books to pass to her to keep her occupied when confined in car seat.

]]> By: Mara http://travelingmamas.com/2008/10/17/your-questions-answered-plane-or-car-for-travels-with-baby/#comment-5307 Mara Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:15:27 +0000 http://travelingmamas.com/?p=1346#comment-5307 This is all excellent advice and I agree with every word of it, especially the tip to buy a seat for the baby. We always did this even when our sons were very young and it made things more comfortable (and safe) for everyone. I feel that it is infinitely worth money. We also always ship stuff ahead, even when we drive - makes for a more comfortable car. As someone who has often done the very drive that is mentioned here (and will do it again at Thanksgiving) I can say that it is doable, even with a slightly fussy baby. And practice does make perfect. My children are now 3 and 6 and can handle ten-hour days in the car like true pros (and we don't have any kind of electronic devices for distraction except a CD player). One thing we've started doing now that my kids are a bit older is stopping midway and spending the night at a hotel with a pool. Yes this adds some expense, but not as much as four plane tickets would cost, and we usually only do it one direction. For a description of how we did the drive this summer, please see here: http://motherofalltrips.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-road-again.html This is all excellent advice and I agree with every word of it, especially the tip to buy a seat for the baby. We always did this even when our sons were very young and it made things more comfortable (and safe) for everyone. I feel that it is infinitely worth money. We also always ship stuff ahead, even when we drive – makes for a more comfortable car.

As someone who has often done the very drive that is mentioned here (and will do it again at Thanksgiving) I can say that it is doable, even with a slightly fussy baby. And practice does make perfect. My children are now 3 and 6 and can handle ten-hour days in the car like true pros (and we don’t have any kind of electronic devices for distraction except a CD player). One thing we’ve started doing now that my kids are a bit older is stopping midway and spending the night at a hotel with a pool. Yes this adds some expense, but not as much as four plane tickets would cost, and we usually only do it one direction. For a description of how we did the drive this summer, please see here: http://motherofalltrips.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-road-again.html

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