Moving house with a baby - help me!

[firsttimemothergoose]

We are moving house in a few days with a 5 week old baby. We have spent today packing which has really unsettled her and now I'm worried about moving day. I knew it would be hard but figured it is just one day and we would cope.
Has anyone had experience of this or have any tips?

We did this with a four month old. I went to the new place first with the baby and her stuff (and some loo roll!), DH followed with the furniture van. I sorted our lunch for everyone while waiting at the new place. That is, baby and I wandered down to the supermarket for ready made sandwiches and coffee during her nap. The key for us was lots of friends to help with the loading and unloading , freeing me up for the baby. Bloody nightmare though. Good luck!!!

We moved when my son was six weeks old. Admittedly,it was only half a mile down the road. Luckily, the movers were brilliant so all I lifted was the baby or a coffee. We muddled through and it was fine. I even managed to shampoo the carpets. Keep spare clothes and nappy stuff free plus a blanket for wriggling on. Keep the buggy handy too so you can take the baby off if restless. Good luck, you'll be fine.

I just left them to it. Moved when ds1 was 8 weeks. I went out for the day with baby to art gallery and to nice restaurant for lunch. Lovely.

I moved house and area with a 3 week old. It's not different from moving when you don't have a baby really - just pay extra for the removal guys to do the packing and don't let them pack your bare necessities (? milk stuff, and sleeping stuff and nappies etc for baby) which you should take in your car. It was no more stressful than moving house is anyway. We moved house again when we had a 2 year old and a 2 week old (my job involved moving house a lot). Same thing: you wouldn't choose to do it but it works out fine. Don't panic.

We moved with ds when he was older, 9 months, and I wish I'd just gone to family for a day or two then come home to the new place with at least the basics already set up (nursery, kitchen, etc). Ds found it really unsettling and it took nearly a week for him to get over it

Baby will be fine, doubt she'll even noticed tbh. We moved with our toddler recently and me and DD just went out for the day! Came back when it was all finished.

I was worried about how DD would settle, but she didn't bat an eyelid.