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To think that holiday with baby is the same at being at home with baby, just more boring and more upsetting?

56 replies

BB36 · 15/07/2025 14:30

Beach resort with 10-months old, I’m in the apartment doing what I always do, prepping means, supervising naps etc. More boring than at home because we don’t have any baby classes to go to or other mums to meet; more annoying because I see the beach from my window and so wish I could go down there and swim. Plus STBExH leaves us in the morning and spends all day in the sea, playing beach volleyball etc

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Girliefriendlikespuppies · 15/07/2025 14:39

I took dd to Spain as a single parent when she was 5 months, it was a nice holiday.

Baby’s are portable, she slept on the beach or in the buggy, I breastfed so that was the same as being at home.

Dd learnt to enjoy swimming and the beach.

You don’t need to be cooking or staying in supervising naps, just go out with the baby 🤷‍♀️

MrsTerryPratchett · 15/07/2025 14:38

Tooblondetooyoung · 15/07/2025 14:34

I think the big problem here is not the holiday but your partner.

This. Twat.

And if you bother again, and I love travelling, you pick accordingly. No self-catering, no villas, no people who won’t help allowed. AI (and I HATE AI) with lots of lovely things for you to do in the breaks while someone else is baby-holding. You can make it nicer. It will never be like before.

DappledThings · 15/07/2025 14:38

Tooblondetooyoung · 15/07/2025 14:34

I think the big problem here is not the holiday but your partner.

Completely. I know you'll get people saying all holidays with young children are "same shit, different location" but I've never found that. It's still a holiday and a chance to see new places and explore a new bit of the world and swim and not be at work.

But that is dependent on not having a shit partner who doesn’t pull his weight.

Tooblondetooyoung · 15/07/2025 14:34

I think the big problem here is not the holiday but your partner.

steff13 · 15/07/2025 14:33

I don't think it's exactly the same but I am always kind of bemused when people complain that holidays with small children are not relaxing. Unless you're leaving the children someplace else You're still going to be doing a lot of parenting. Just maybe in a more relaxed location.

AnneLovesGilbert · 15/07/2025 14:32

We go self catering in the U.K. and it’s always been lovely with babies. There will be exceptions but it’s generally sensible to change where and how you holiday with babies so you’re not trying to do what you did before but with a baby in tow.