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Mauritius with 2 month old?

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newmum2be101 · 20/01/2022 12:14

Hi all,
I recently found out I am pregnant, expected arrival early September this year. We have a holiday to Mauritius booked for mid-November and I was wondering AIBU to consider taking the baby away with us? They will be around 2 months

OP posts:
Knittedfairies · 20/01/2022 12:16

Is the alternative leaving your newborn with somebody else? I'd be thinking about rescheduling the holiday.

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newmum2be101 · 20/01/2022 12:16

No the alternative would be rearranging

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lastqueenofscotland · 20/01/2022 12:17

I’d rearrange

Xmassprout · 20/01/2022 12:18

Is it a family friendly place you've booked to stay? Thankfully at 2 months babies don't need a lot of stuff, but you have to think about if you go overdue, have a bad recovery, you or baby has medical issues. Or even if your baby ends up crying and lot or having colic, will you want to be abroad?

You may have a simple straightforward delivery, everyone be healthy and you have a baby that settles well. In which case it would probably be fine. Or you may have issues that makes it a complete nightmare, it's a bit of a gamble

eurochick · 20/01/2022 12:19

Bring it forward as a lovely last baby-free holiday in around Maytime?

HelloBunny · 20/01/2022 12:20

Re-schedule, I’d say. I would have been in no fit state to leave the house too often, never mind a long haul flight... And, if you have a C-Section, the recovery is not easy.

WouldIBeATwat · 20/01/2022 12:20

I wouldn’t be going long haul without baby having had their jabs. Took DD at 4.5 months.

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newmum2be101 · 20/01/2022 12:20

Yes it's family friendly and can add the baby on at no extra cost. Do get your point about going overdue/having complications etc though, that is something I hadn't really considered

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AlDanvers · 20/01/2022 12:20

I would rearrange.

Hopefully all goes well with you and the baby and you recover quickly. But you might not.

Theres a good chance you really won't feel like packing everything a baby needs, especially if BF doesn't work out. Or doing the exhausting travelling with an 8 week old.

lapasion · 20/01/2022 12:21

It depends when you could rearrange. Flying with a small baby is easier than flying with one who is crawling. But would you be able to enjoy your holiday with such a tiny baby? At 2 months I was feeding around the clock and barely sleeping a wink. There’s a slight advantage in that you can wheel a tiny baby around in a pram, so it’s easier to get on with things.

Could you bring it forward a few months and go when pregnant instead?

Rainbowqueeen · 20/01/2022 12:22

Will you be able to get a passport in time??

I’d rearrange.

edwinbear · 20/01/2022 12:22

I'd rearrange. As a minimum I'd want baby to have had all its newborn vaccinations before travelling, and at 8 weeks, I was still very much recovering and working things out like getting to grips with expressing. Will you be able to get a passport for them in time?

minipie · 20/01/2022 12:22

I would definitely rearrange. I would absolutely not have been able or wanting to travel when DC was 2 months. Especially not long haul and somewhere hot, and they are too young to go in the pool at that age.

Either bring it forward or delay till baby is between 6-9 months (ie old enough to be in a routine of sorts but not old enough to be mobile!)

emsyj37 · 20/01/2022 12:23

I've had 3 babies, one with a traumatic delivery and a week in hospital and two with very straightforward home births and quick recovery, but you couldn't have paid me enough to do a long haul holiday 2 months after any of them. It won't be relaxing with a new baby - I would bring it forward and go very soon, before you are too far along to travel, and have a lovely child free time.

girlmom21 · 20/01/2022 12:23

I'd postpone the holiday. I can't imagine it'll be much fun.

lionheart678 · 20/01/2022 12:24

Definitely go when pregnant as a lovely babymoon.

Velvetscrunchy · 20/01/2022 12:24

Biggest blocker for me would be the vaccinations. I can get the passport, do the packing, the long flight etc knowing I’d rest when I’m there but taking an unvaccinated child would stress me out no end.

welshweasel · 20/01/2022 12:25

I’d say 4 - 9 months was the sweet spot for my two. Pre weaning even easier! 2 months would have been too early for me, I was exhausted and emotional.

Angrymum22 · 20/01/2022 12:25

The thought of longhaul with a newborn would be enough to put me off. That and the possibility of recovering from c section. My DS was a perfect baby and I had a text book recovery from csection but a 10+ hour flight with all the faffing at either end would have not been a holiday for me. Also from seeing other couples on holiday with their very young babies most looked like they couldn’t wait to go back home.

TheChemicalMother · 20/01/2022 12:25

If your baby is late and might be 6 weeks old, will you have had time to get birth certificate and then passport? Registering the birth can take a while, passport delays....

Also baby jabs?

It is an 11 hour flight. Do you plan to breast feed? (easy) or bottle (less easy).

I'm quite laid back, and we did go abroad when our first was 9 weeks (Europe) but we booked it after the birth once we knew everything was stable and going well and we all felt up to it.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 20/01/2022 12:27

I'd be worried about passport. You ant do that until you get birth certificate which itself can take few weeks.

TheChemicalMother · 20/01/2022 12:27

Mauritius are currently demanding masks worn everywhere outside private homes, including on beaches. Police are patrolling and fining people.

CraazyCatLady · 20/01/2022 12:28

I'd rearrange too. Even if you wait another couple of months.

I had a straightforward pregnancy, but ended up having an emergency Caesarian and had my bladder damaged in the process. I had a urinary catheter for at least 6 weeks afterwards whilst my bladder was healing from the surgery.

Fingers crossed everything will go perfectly for you, but waiting a bit longer will give you peace of mind I think.

Congratulations on your news.

PattyPan · 20/01/2022 12:30

I'd rearrange - there's no way I'd want to take a baby that small on a flight that long. Have you thought yet about whether you'd be planning to breast feed or formula? If formula that adds a whole extra level of complication with taking bottles, enough formula, making it up on the plane, etc.

PiesNotGuys · 20/01/2022 12:31

I don’t see why not, even if you went weeks overdue you’d still have several weeks to sort the passport although I’m not sure what delays on those there are at the moment. I’m sure there are babies in Mauritius. Might be worth asking around re the passport though.

Before you decide anything I’d also gently urge caution, and suggest waiting a few months before you cancel or reschedule anything. On my due date for my first pregnancy I was halfway through my second pregnancy, on my due date for my third pregnancy I wasn’t pregnant and didn’t have a baby, on my due date for my fourth pregnancy I was halfway through my fifth pregnancy, just as examples.