Long Journey Home

[weefreeladies]

Has anyone had a long journey home with LO at the end of introductions? In the region of 300 miles?

Does anyone have any opinions on what it would be like to undertake such a journey by car, or train? TIA.

Me not Mr!!

Our FC were the same with us, we wanted to fly / train, but it was due to all of LOs things that needed to come with so we we're told we needed to drive.

May be can speak too social worker there are other option's
As FC for such a distance we would take child too new home stay an hour then book into Hotel , return the following morning see how child is and offer some reassurance if needed, meet your social worker, stay for an hour or so, say our goodbyes before leaving.

SW say I must drive. FC are not coming to us.

Speak too Adoption support / Team manager. At LA.
More about Safeguarding. Should have contact staff or social worker too
assist and help with your situation is not unreasonable considering your concerns.
Can use Adoption support fund so would be no cost too them.

We regularly do long journeys including random journeys such as from the south to the Outer Hebrides and I've driven lots of long distance ones on my own with young kid/s. My advice would be .... DVD player on the back of the seat - set to repeat with a familiar tv series. Snack boxes next to you on the passenger seat ready to hand out. Can the baby seat go in the front if the airbag is off? Lost track of the legalities of that but I used to only have a 2 seat car when my lad was little. Much easier! 300 miles would be about 4 or 5 hours. I do that most weeks with my newly adopted just 3 year old and he is fine. Good luck with it X

Lurker with no adoption experience, but can you find out what DCs favourite tv show is? On iplayer you can download tv shows to watch when you have no internet on a tablet. Same with Amazon prime. And you get staps to attach the iPad to a headrest (we have erf seats and it works on rear head rest). That might kill an hour or so. Honestly sounds hard enough without all the complications of intros etc. GOOD LUCK!

It does seem like they are making your life hard. As to the stuff - surely you can buy cheapo suitcases and have one of those companies that moves boarding school pupils/university students pick them up and deliver next day - while you take the train.

You would think. dogsandkids LO currently watches no TV, and I'm keen to keep it that way under 2 due to the autism link.

Plus this journey is much more than 4 to 5 hours, without toilet, food, and nappy breaks.

Have you managed to find a hotel part way to stop? Would thus be better for you than driving all day? If the child sleeps it could be fine but if not it is. Long journey to do without rest.

We're flying! phew!

Great news. Hope it goes well.

Great! Makes much more sense.
Go well xx