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Costa del Sol with 8mo

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MeadowHay · 04/02/2019 12:41

Going to the Costa del Sol soon with DD who will be 8.5 mo, and my DPs, DB, and DSis. DPs are taking us basically. Will be sharing a hotel room with DD. She is FF and on solids too, we do a mixture of spoon-feeding and self-feeding. This is the first time I will be taking her on a 'proper' holiday i.e. not staying with friends or relatives, and the first time I will be taking her abroad and on a plane. I am getting increasingly anxious about it now as the time comes, I feel like I have no idea what to pack or how to prepare. She is a 'high needs' baby and 90% of the time fights her naps awfully with loads of crying and needs rocking to sleep, which I usually use the pushchair for. How am I going to get her to be quiet/sleep for the plane journey??? That's what I'm most panicking about Confused.

Anyway, any tips about things to take that I might forget otherwise? Have bought a Joie Nitro stroller to take so leaving our regular bulkier pushchair. Have used it a few times and DD is happy in it and sleeps well in it. Not even sure if the hotel has a mini-fridge in the rooms or not...do hotels usually provide travel cots? What do I do about the mini-bus transfer from the airport to the hotel, as I guess DD won't have a car seat for it?!

(I do suffer with GAD, I'm sure you can tell!)

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MeadowHay · 26/02/2019 16:50

Yeah I think I will take a box of powder as it doesn't look like I will be able to get ready made of Aptamil or Cow and Gate there and there's not much point paying double the price for powder when I'm there. I don't have enough suitcase space for everything so trying to pack light ish but my parents and brother do so they're going to pack the formula and some of her food and spare clothes etc.

Thanks, don't think she has cow's milk allergy as she doesn't really have any symptoms of it other than crying and sometimes struggling to pass bowel movements but the latter is getting worse the older she gets and she didn't get any worse after moving from BF to FF which you would have expected her to do if cow's milk allergy. Also she is generally ok at night barring some phases. GP made a referral to paeds about a month ago but we can't get an appt til June,about a week before she turns 1!

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shpoot · 27/02/2019 10:39

Taking it all with you makes more sense. Have a good trip

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