OK hardy mummies....youngest baby camping award!

[HappyChildminderBerkshire]

I think I'm insane as we're considering taking my 7 week baby camping, but I'm sure there are much hardier MNers out there? Anyone taken a younger baby camping? And how was it!

Friend of mine took her 3 week old DS camping at a festival but they lived in a yurt anyway so it was more of the same really.

7 weeks is impressive - I consider myself hardy but didn't manage til DD was around 1, partly because we don't have a car though so it is far more difficult.

Someone I know went when her baby was a week old. But it was her fourth and I think they found camping easier than staying in a tiny house with 4 small children...

Each of my 3 went at 4 weeks. We did have a camper van then so that might not count though.

It was fine. easier than with toddlers or crawling babies. Newborns are very portable, you can wrap them up warm in lots of clothes and blankets and they can't take them off or fall into the mud, and if you're breastfeeding there's no hassle at all really.

Snap at the 7 weeks one! I suspect the only reason we did not go the week after any of the DCs were born was due to the weather not being very nice!

We took DD2 when she was 4 weeks old in a tent but she was born in July.

We took the pram for her to sleep in and be transported, loads of blankets and a grobag too.

We've just been this weekend with DD1 who is 2 and DD2 who is 8 weeks! DD1 was the most trouble though! Go for it, camping with a baby is suprisingly easy and to top it off she slept through for the first time (well, till 5!) i bottle feed and just took a big tub and some milton fluid so i could sterilise bottles and lots of ready made milk. next time i think i'll just boil water though. she slept in a little travel cot on 2 foam mats folded in half, in a grobag with lots of layers. and we took her bouncy chair too. we had a great time!

Both my DDs went camping before they were even born - so I win!

Seriously, babies are easy peasie, it is the toddlers who go walk about who cause problems.

DD was just under 12 weeks

8 weeks for a weekend. Then when dd was about 15 weeks old we went to Switzerland camping for a month.

6 weeks with our first (June baby).
We have friends who beat us by coming when theirs was 4 weeks, though.

I am to admit I took a Grobag room thermometer with me and spent the first night constantly waking up to check the temperature - because obviously the baby would have died instantly if the temp had gone down as far as the bit on the thermometer that said 'too cold'.

I went camping at 8 months pregnant does that count? Very uncomfortable

I've been reading this thread and thinking what utter nutters you all are, before realising that we took dd at 13 weeks. And it was fine. Much easier than at 27mo, freshly potty-trained, when she announced the week before that she was no longer wearing nappies at night, and the campsite had no laundry facilities. That was interesting.

Fruitshoots - camping when pg is way harder than camping with a newborn!

Ds1 wouldn't bf and night time bottlefeeds in a tent are just not fun. But I should think, with a 7-wk-old, its more about what state the mum is in. I was still Lost on the Purple Planet at 7 weeks with ds2, couldn't manage Tescos let alone camping!

Wow you are all very adventurous! Especially a month in Switzerland, that sounds fantastic. We might give it a go!

My friend took a 3 and a half week old baby camping.

I took my daughter when she was 10 days old, the weather was fab though so no chance of her getting cold.

I took my 2 week-old last year during the wet weather. She's the third child but it meant we had 3 children under 4 in a water-logged tent and the 18month old couldn't yet walk so we couldn't really put her down. It was surprisingly enjoyable though. The younger they are, the more flexible - the baby was still in that sleepy phase as she was so new.

Not quite 7 weeks, but 12 weeks. DD was breastfed, we co-slept, too young to crawl off anywhere, didn't need to sterilize anything.....it was easy!

Pre that, camping at 5 month pregnant, not so easy! (we didn't take the blow up bed, slept straight on the floor)

We took the DDs (aged 4.5 years and 12 weeks) to a festival last summer and camped. It was so straightforward as DD2 slept brilliantly in her pram. I suspect I may have gone overboard with the layer though; she slept in a vest, babygro, fleecy all-in-one, hat, grobag and blanket. When we woke her each morning she had rosy cheeks!

I took my ds 14 weeks pg in my tummy - it proved difficult to erect the trailer tent with me moaning i felt sick, we took hi magain aged 2 and it was a nightmare - he was so excited he wanted to bounce on the airbeds all night or just go home - the first tie was easiest . We are planing another trip this yr now he is 3 though dh is resisting......

Well, we gfound we were expecting ds4 on a campsite and then he started at five weeks the following year.

We found we were expecting ds3 when I was performing on a carnival float (well, about an hour before but you know, LOL) so we have a habit of babies + big events scenarios LOL

Tent, May bank holiday 2008 (born April)- was bloody freezing, terrible weather, site lost all power and I spent the entire time panbicking my baby would freeze....

went again in June and was MUCH more fun!

Thinking about it, we also weaned ds4 (early but on paedictric advice in specific circs) in August 2008 on a campsite

Think I might spend too much time on campsites LOL (but he was and indeed is breastfed, and we sterilised by boiling so easy)

17 days at a festival with my son. He's now one and has returned from his sixth camping weekend, wild camping on the beach in Scotland . Next weekend he'll go to his 5 th festival. Camping with babies is easy! Alot easier than being cooped up in the house with them!