Skiing with 9 month old

[betterthanbritney]

Hi all,

We're going to Courchevel 1650 in March with our 9 month old.
I'd love to bring her out and roll her down hills (gently obviously!) and go on sledges. She can't crawl yet.
We've bought her a ski jacket - a tenner from Hennes! and would like to get her some salopettes. Looked around and the cheapest I can find are about £25 - quite expensive imo.
Has anyone got any they want to sell or know of any cheap or second hand baby gear.

Did you have any good activities with your babies - if so what?

Only 5 and a half weeks to go!

Thanks all.

We went on a skiing holiday with a ten month old and purchased one of those all in one baby snowsuits (mittens and feet attached by poppers) - ours was from John Lewis and not too expensive from what I remember - definitely under £20...am afraid we no longer have it to sell on. Maybe you could pick up a bargain one on Ebay? We went with a tour operator who had a creche so only took our baby out when we got back from skiing....we used a back carrier to carry him round the resort and took him out on a sledge a few times.. hope you have a lovely time in Courcheval

Very little tbh apart from a bit of sledding when it was warm enough. ds was almost 1 when we took him away , with gp's for childcare. We hired a wooden toboggan with a seat and eh got trundled aroudn , up on moutnian traisnot meet us for coffee and taken to hotel to nap. Took a footmuff to keep him snug. H and M do very small salopettes or you could look in TK maxx, tchibo set at £11 or this sort of thingor similar cheaper at Decathlon. Personally preferred all in ones for lo's , less bulky and don't ride up in the middle when they stretch out on sled.

As you are in 1650 there is plenty of opportunity for the GPs to bring her up the mountain for the ride and for them to have a coffee/chocolate/lunch etc in a mountain restaurant: the main bubble from 1650 goes to Bel Air, which has an extremely popular restaurant. 1850 is only a bus ride away too, from where there is a choice of gondola to other mountain restaurants.

For little ones (up to about 3) we found all-in-ones over their normal clothes very suitable: sorry we've none to sell/hand-on as ds2 is almost 10 months and coming to Canada with us next wekk.

I'd reccomend the 'all-in-one' route too - we've just got back from a week in Lapland with our 17 month old and I'd bought her a set (jacket and salopettes) but really wish I'd gone for an all-in-one ultimately as it was such a faff getting everything on. At 9 months, she'd be much more comfy in a thickly padded suit either with or without attached feet/mittens. Have a look on ebay as there are some Columbia down-padded all-in-ones on there now or as Lizs mentions, H&M did small ski suits too (though not when I was looking - typical!)