To think "wtf?"?

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AIBU that my first reaction to this story is not "oh you poor things, stuck in a foreign country with a tiny baby", but it's "wtf? You booked a holiday with a 8 week old baby?" (in fact, I presume the baby was actually much younger when they booked it).

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/we-just-want-go-home-10403609

It's a genuine question, as I have not been brave enough yet to attempt the logistics of a foreign holiday with mine, but 8 weeks old seems so little to be taking them to such a hot country, especially given that when I went to Egypt, when I got money from the bureau de change over here, they wore gloves to count it out and warned me that they have to do that as its notorious for having loads of germs, and most people on the trip had bad bellies at some stage (although this was a trip down the Nile rather than to sharm). Little one won't have even finished her jabs yet.

I would think that those figures have more to do with poverty and deprivation than heat or germs IKnow.

The wheels on their pram don't even go round and round
Round and round
Round and round
They wheels on their pram don't go round and and round
In Sharma el sheikh

:(

ah you are being mean. The simple fact is that many people take babies on sunny holidays, I took my small one to Italy at a similar age

only now do we know that the airport security spent most of their day chilling, ignoring the x-ray machine (oops was that a bomb?) and facebooking- twats

"Emigrated "
You immigrate to, you emigrate from. So you actually had it right in your first post.

The only thing that I'd be worried about, normally, travelling with a small baby, would be that the mother might get sick and not be able to breastfeed - assuming that she is in the first place - if there wasn't a safe supply of water for making formula.
On the other hand, I wouldn't take me to a country with a travel advisory. (But other people, obviously, have different levels of acceptable risk in that department.)

At what age does it become OK to take a child to countries where hygiene standards are lower? We took DS to Egypt, when he was 15 months. We got away with it, but looking back I'm not sure it was our best idea ever, as he was into everything at that age.

I'd imagine it is far easier with an 8 week old, who would have their own supply of food, and is not going to be handling money, or anything else really. As long as they are kept well hydrated, and out of the sun, I can't see much risk.

Also surely an older child is just as much at risk of picking up bugs etc. If you dwell on the risks of things too much, you would never go anywhere, and there is a big, exciting world out there to see!

I knew someone who managed to have a fantastic holiday in Egypt, but unfortunately got typhoid and salmonella and spent 2 months in hospital afterwards in the UK; lost all of her hair too.

And yes, she had had all her jabs before going.

YANBU - take a baby to country where you don't need so many jabs to visit.

I wouldn't want to take an 8 week old away as they haven't had any innoculations which would worry me.

Silly decision on their part I think, still feel sorry for them though.

I think maybe my view is tainted by my travels in Egypt, which I did 8 years ago before it got too dicey. It was absolutely fab, but the heat was intense and it was very dirty and dusty, so I think of Egypt and I think of that. However, that was Egypt as in Cairo/Luxor/Nile, not sharm. Ive never been there and I presume it's a lot more westernised and new and shiny.

Now I have little ones and a partner who burns at the sight of daylight and moans like a bastard when too hot I'll probably stick to mainland Europe for the foreseeable, and save going further afield until they are old enough to help me persuade their dad to be a bit more resilient and cool off in the pool easily.

Sharm is a resort set up for tourists. It is not proper Egypt. And I suspect it is safer to take a small baby away, than a toddler who is into everything.