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Vacation With Baby/Toddler: How To Preserve Sleep AND Have Fun!

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Summer is here, and that means vacation, baby! But as you may know, an overtired child can ruin even the happiest of vacations in a snap. (Just visit Disney World and you’ll see what I mean….soooooo many crying and exhausted children in the Happiest Place on Earth!)

But what if I told you that you didn’t have to sacrifice vacation fun in order to keep your child sleeping well? And vice versa: you don’t have to sacrifice your child’s sleep in order to have fun during vacation. You can have the best of both worlds!

Now, keep in mind, your child’s sleep during vacation likely won’t be picture-perfect. You will have to make some sacrifices, and you can probably expect sleep that is a little more fragmented and disrupted than usual. But hey – I bet you’ll take that any day over non-existing sleep that leads to cranky overtiredness, right?

Vacation with Baby and/or Toddler: 9 Tips To Preserve Sleep AND Have Fun

Catch up on sleep before vacation. Ensure that the few days leading up to your vacation are relaxed and slow-paced. Make sure naps are happening at home, in your child’s crib or bed, and that bedtime is happening like clockwork. This will allow your child to get good and rested before you leave.
Book sleep-friendly accommodations, if possible. Where you will be staying on vacation will mean a lot in terms of how well your child does or does not sleep. Booking a house, where your child can have her own room, may be easiest. However, a hotel suite that has two bedrooms can work just as well. That said, if you have to share a sleeping area with your child on vacation, you can make that work (more on that later in the post).
Be prepared to do the time-zone dance, if necessary. If you’ll be crossing time zones, it may affect sleep. If the time change is just an hour, you may be fine, but if it’s more than that, you may need to do the “time zone dance”! You’ll need to modify your child’s schedule in advance of leaving and then modify it again when you get home; it makes extra work, yes, but it’ll make everyone a lot happier while you are on vacation. As for how to do this time-zone dance – we LOVE this post on the topic. We adore this family (they are former clients of ours), and they are experts on traveling with a baby in tow.
Bring lots of comfort objects from home. You should absolutely plan to pack your child’s lovey, but don’t forget things like a favorite crib sheet, favorite PJs, a few special bedtime books, etc. If your child has a nightlight that’s part of the bedtime routine, bring that. And don’t forget any white noise machines and blackout blinds that will make your child’s sleeping area very sleep-friendly.
Room-share like a pro. If you have to share a room with your baby during vacation, you can make it work. The biggest step will be to use white noise to block out any ambient sounds and blackout shades to block out light. Additionally, it can help to create some kind of temporary room-divider that will section off your side of the room from your baby’s. A portable coat rack (like this one) + an extra hotel blanket can achieve this well. Expand the coat rack, throw the blanket over it, and you have a room divider!
Try to plan excursions around naps (if you can – don’t stress if you can’t). Don’t be a slave to your child’s usual schedule, but certainly take it into account when planning activities. If your toddler takes one afternoon nap, try to plan an outing in the morning, or during mid-afternoon. If your child takes two naps, try to squeeze an excursion in around lunchtime.

Build in “lazy” breaks in the midst of your activities. You may be able to go-go-go, but your child likely cannot! As a general rule, plan for one big activity per day, or two smaller outings. But also be sure to schedule in some lazy mornings or afternoons (or even days, depending on how long your trip is) so that the whole family can sleep in, nap, and generally relax.

Be flexible – tired will happen! Your best laid plans will not equal perfect sleep. The truth is, vacation means a different daily schedule and different surroundings, and that will spell disrupted sleep. If you do your homework and plan well, you can minimize sleep damage, but do be prepared for some fussiness, a late nap, some late bedtimes, etc.
Book a few “getting back on track” days after you get home. Believe it or not, vacation doesn’t end when you come home. The aftermath of vacation can stick around in the form of whacked-out sleep schedules! That’s why we recommend taking a few days after you get home to get back to normal. Try to make sure you can be home during these days, so that you don’t have any errands or outings that can further-disrupt sleep.
And of course, as a last tip – don’t forget to have fun! When you take vacation with your baby or toddler, it is a time to enjoy your family, so don’t get too focused on sleep, lest it suck the enjoyment out of your travels.

Your turn! Do you vacation with your baby or toddler? Any tips or stories to share? Planning a vacation with your baby or toddler? Scroll down to ask questions – we’ll answer!

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Traveling With A Baby or Toddler: Your Holiday Sleep Guide

By Emily DeJeu

The holidays are almost upon us, parents! And while the fun of holiday gifts and treats and parties and family time is certainly exciting, I know exactly what a lot of you are worrying over right about now: “How are all the late nights and schedule disruptions and long days spent at Grandma’s going to affect my little one’s sleep?”

Not to worry, parents – we have done a ton of writing on this very topic! And to make your holiday preparations even easier, we’ve compiled all of those past articles here. Think of this as your one-stop holiday sleep guide!

Traveling With A Baby or Toddler: Your Holiday Sleep Guide

Take a look at the articles below, and get insights on everything from how to help your baby nap in an unfamiliar place to info on dealing with jet lag to managing schedule disruptions due to special events. Take a look!

How The Holidays May Impact Your Baby’s Sleep

Learn how holiday traveling, special occasions, loads of treats, and different-than-usual daytime and nighttime schedules will impact your little one’s sleep.

How To Manage Naps During Holiday Traveling

Naps often go out the window during holiday travels. Learn tips to promote better nap sleep and ward off over tiredness during your holiday trips!

Traveling On Long Trips With A Baby Or Toddler

Read tips on how to promote sleep during long road or airplane trips, as well as info on how to make the trip go more smoothly for everyone!

11 Holiday Sleep Tips

This one outlines info on both managing sleep during traveling, AND how to handle holiday visitors who may unintentionally ruin your little one’s sleep schedule.

Should You Keep Your Baby or Toddler Up Late For Holiday Events?

The title of this one says it all! Learn what we think about keeping your baby or toddler up late for special holiday parties and events.

Dealing With Jet Lag

No, this article doesn’t come from our site – but it’s written by a family that we just love! We did a sleep consultation with them awhile back, and totally admire their commitment to traveling with kids. Read info on how to deal with jet lag and time changes (along with a host of other things) when traveling with little ones.

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September Means Disney Savings!

By Emily DeJeu

Mary Waring, creator of the Disney saving’s site MouseSavers.com, knows a thing or two about how to save on a trip to Disney.

“It’s wildly expensive,” she says. “It can cost you as much to go to Disney World for a week as it does to go to France. People have no choice but to find deals.”

One of the best ways to score a Disney World deal? Go during the month of September. The park is far less crowded at this point in the year, since kiddos are back in school by Labor Day. This translates into shorter (or non-existent) lines. That means you can spend more of your vacation enjoying the attractions and less time waiting to enjoy them. And yes, it may be hot during this time of year, but you can take advantage of the smaller crowds and spend afternoons at the water parks.

What’s more, you can save BIG on hotels during the month of September. Many off-site hotels offer their rock bottom deals at this time, and the Disney hotels themselves are discounted – you can get a room for four at one of the value Disney hotels for as little as $85/night.

Perhaps the biggest way to save in September is by utilizing the free dining package. Every September since 2005, Disney has offered free dining packages for guests who purchase full-price hotel and ticket packages. This translates into enormous savings – up to $800 for many families!

Other great times of the year to visit Disney include…

…mid-November through mid-December (except the week of Thanksgiving).
…second week of January through mid-February.
…first three weeks of May.

The worst times to visit Disney (in terms of price and crowds) include…

…December 26-31 (this is the most crowded and most expensive time to visit Disney).
…mid-February through mid-April (spring break season!)
…June through early August.

Want more Disney tips? Be sure to check Nicole’s article on how to survive a Disney trip with babies and toddlers! She offers a number of money-saving and time-saving tips, as well as ways to maximize sleep and fun while vacationing at Disney World.

Let’s hear it, parents – what are your tried-and-true Disney trips?

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7 Tips to Survive a Disney World Vacation with Babies and Toddlers

By Nicole Johnson

My family and I had the privilege of enjoying a Disney World vacation in September. Not only did I want to share a little of the “magic” of our trip, but I also wanted to share 7 tips to help you survive your Disney World vacation:

1. Reduce pre-trip stress with a Disney Consultant and Disney’s Magical Express

Disney knows all too well that vacations with children can be very tiring and tedious. You have so much preparation and so much gear with which to travel – from Pack-n-Plays to strollers. But, have no fear — Disney can help!

I highly recommend you have a Disney Consultant do a lot of preparation for you. Here are two Disney Consultants I can vouch for: Jamie Myers and Laura Slawter. Think it’s pricey? Not a chance. The service is FREE!

Our consultant made all of our dinner reservations (which need to be made months in advance, by the way), set up a loose itinerary to follow (optional and we didn’t follow it exactly, but it helped knowing which attractions were super popular), gave us options for attractions we had to pre-purchase (like Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party), and gave us a website that allowed us to order a few grocery items to be delivered to the hotel room ahead of time (there’s almost nothing worse than not having food for the kiddos), among other things. Furthermore, our consultant made sure we knew when to book our trip and we got a FREE dining plan. For a family of four, that is over $1000 free. Having a Disney Consultant was completely awesome for a busy mom like me, and I highly recommend it!

Disney takes it a step further with their Magical Express service, which picks up your luggage from the airline and delivers it to your hotel, also FREE! All we did was get off the plane and hop aboard a bus to the hotel. When you have a family of four, two of which can’t help with the bags, this is priceless. Oh, and did I mention that our hotel had a Pack-N-Play already available? I’d call ahead to make sure there’s one at your hotel, of course. The one in our room looked virtually brand new, but since we don’t have babies, I didn’t think of opening it up to check what it looked like on the inside.

2. Bring Your Own Stroller or Rent One?

**The Boy Who Inspired The Baby Sleep Site**

If you need a stroller for the actual trip, you may as well bring your own. You’ll need it! We are virtually done with strollers EXCEPT for the long days like at the zoo or, you guessed it, Disney World. The kids get super tired of walking. Heck, so did we! Since we don’t really use a stroller at home anymore, we decided to rent one. The problem is the stroller that Disney rents is convenient (since you don’t have to cart it onto the buses), but it’s a horrible stroller (in our opinion)! Nowhere to put your bags and not exactly conducive for any on-the-go-naps.We found Kingdom Strollers on our second day and rented a City Elite Double Stroller. Superb stroller, just what we needed, and at a fraction of the cost of the Disney stroller. We rented one for $75 for the entire week. The company dropped it off at our hotel, and we gave it back to Bell Services at the end of our trip.

3. Choose a Resort close to your most-frequented park

We stayed at the Animal Kingdom Lodge, which is a bit more expensive than some of the other parks. We rationalized since we got the free dining that we could splurge a bit more on the hotel. 🙂 The resort was very nice and we even saw giraffes and zebras from our room, but it was a bit far from Magic Kingdom, which we visited three different times. It’s a good 25 minute drive from the Animal Kingdom to the Magic Kingdom; add to that the long wait (up to 20 minutes) for a bus, and it wasn’t convenient to go back to the room to rest, like I had originally planned. For that reason, if I had to do it again, I would choose a different resort closer to the Magic Kingdom. Of course, if your most-visited park is one of the other ones, you may choose differently.

4. Pack a Daily Snack Bag

Even if you have a dining plan and you plan to eat food at the Disney Parks, I highly recommend having back-up snacks in a bag. Let me tell you that we saw meltdowns GALORE every which way. No doubt many of them were from missed naps and being off routine, but I know some were due to kids being hungry. They are go-go-go and don’t stop to think they are hungry. Or, they are eating so much junk. We had a backpack with parent-approved snacks and still ate meals (we have very hungry boys!)…and some junk. 🙂 We didn’t have one meltdown, though. Phew!

5. Consider rests / naps at the hotel

My “plan” before we went to Disney World was that we’d go back to the hotel for rests. My boys don’t nap anymore, but I sure would have! 😀 However, as I mentioned, there was so much to do, and the distance from parks to hotel made it very difficult for us. However, if you stay near your park of choice, I do recommend that you plan for rests / naps. Believe me, even if you spend all day there, you can’t see everything. Save it for another trip. 🙂 If you have a portable baby, though, plan on stroller naps. If you have a stroller cover, even better. Of course, I’m not always a proponent of on-the-go napping (less quality sleep), but when you’re on vacation and at Disney World, some of the rules need to be relaxed a bit.

*** MILLION DOLLAR IDEA ALERT ***

I do have an idea for Disney, though. I recommend you create a “Buzz Lightyear’s Decompression Zone.” This could be a place where ~~parents nap and kids watch TV~~ the family rests once a day. It could be a climate controlled room you “rent” for 30-60 minutes and I’m sure many families would budget in $50 a day or whatever to reserve one. It could be a cool building with “pods” for each family. Make it no food or drink to help keep it clean, have biodegradable pillow covers, and relaxing music or white noise to recharge little (or not so little) bodies. If you had 50 rooms and charged $50 an hour and ran it for 8 hours (12-8pm), that would give you another $7,300,000 per year. Add it to all the parks and you do the math. Have multiple places within each park and wow! Not sure it would work, but do some market research and you may be surprised.

6. Balance your needs with the kids’

At some points during the trip, I think I was getting more into it than the kids! There was one night the kids just wanted to go to the hotel to go to bed, but I wanted to see the Electrical Parade. And, we stayed! D’oh! Although we know how expensive the trip is and we want to get everything we can out of the trip, we do have to balance the kids’ needs, especially pertaining to sleep, with our own. The next night, I had to forego a different show, since we were soaked from a thunderstorm and no one wanted to stay but me. We’ll catch it next time. 😀

7. “Let go” and have fun

For a Disney World vacation, or any vacation, you do have to just “let go” and have some fun sometimes! I know all too well how sleep has been at the forefront of my mind. This was the first trip that the kids went to bed after 10 or 11 p.m. on multiple nights in the same week! Yikes! Of course, our boys are now older and can handle it better. Thankfully, they were not up at the crack of dawn every morning ready to go to the next park. Although I do recommend you try to stick to routine as much as you can while on vacation, sometimes the vacation “wins” and you deal with the aftermath when you get home. It’s easy to obsess about sleep, even on vacation, but life should be fun just the same. Besides, we’ll always be here when you get back. 🙂

Any tips from your Disney World (or other) Vacation?

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Sleeping in the Caribbean with Kids

By Nicole Johnson

My family and I just got back from a Caribbean vacation for a week (thank you travel points credit card!) and it was a wonderful, relaxing, beautiful, and MUCH-needed trip! Here is the good, the bad, the funny, and the ugly of our trip, where siblings had to share not only a room, but a bed, for a week, and the sun rises at 5 a.m. or so every day. There were some funny moments, too, since the world of a 3 year old is full of interesting combinations of events!

The Good

The Caribbean is a beautiful place where the sands are white and the oceans a beautiful blue (see above photo and click to enlarge). We swam, played in the ocean waves, and the boys learned to swim/doggie paddle in the pool. Traveling with kids is definitely different (though we’ve done it several times). On the one hand, they are impatient as one minute feels like 30 and on the other hand, you have to be mindful that they will get hungry more frequently, you may have dinner at odd times, and once they’re in bed, you’re in for the night, too. Even on vacation, we only push our kids so much being awake, since over-tiredness plagues you even on vacation. Not to mention that the sun just wipes you out. Confession: My husband and I were in bed asleep by 10 p.m. almost every night, too!! I don’t know his excuse, but I needed the sleep. 😀 Our boys traveled very well and even strangers commented on what good travelers they were, which of course made us gleam (I know good rest helped, too). We have definitely learned from past experiences, so don’t fret if the first time you travel doesn’t go smoothly. It gets better.

Sleep-wise, the boys had to share a room and a bed, neither of which they do at home. This was interesting and definitely gave me some inspiration for the next article in my Sibling Series. The one thing that is important to recognize is when it comes to babies and kids, in general, is that the first night often does not indicate how things will be a week or two later. The boys played, giggled a lot, and took a long time to fall asleep the first couple of times, but by mid-week, sometimes one was asleep before the other even got in bed, and if they weren’t, they fell asleep much faster after a few reminders it was time to sleep. It did not go perfectly, but they did a great job! Once they were asleep, barring one or two nightmares by my eldest (photo above to the left), they stayed asleep, thankfully! They asked to sleep together Sunday night after we got home, but I told them that we will practice on Friday nights until they fall asleep within a reasonable amount of time (20-30 minutes) and once they do, they can sleep together more often. I know it will take practice on their part (and to let it get old) and we can’t afford to let an hour pass before falling asleep on school days.

The Bad

Yes, the boys slept well together, but they did not sleep past 7 a.m. even ONE day! The sun was up at 5 a.m. (or so) and no matter how dark I tried to keep it, they were ready to go by 6 to 6:30 a.m. most days. They were very excited to be on vacation, so that also contributed. Since I was asleep by 10 p.m. almost every night, it was actually not too bad compared to nights I work until midnight sending Personalized Sleep Plans®.

The Ugly

The summer is actually “off season” in the Caribbean. This is great for crowds, but it’s also rainy and mosquito season. I had at least 20 bites on my legs alone after the first day before we got diligent about bug repellent (see patch on my arm above). Thankfully, I got the brunt of it and my eldest only got one bite (my youngest none)! I am thankful that I took one for the team there. I’m sure I whined enough for all of us. 😀

The trip back was pretty brutal. Ironically, the long portion of our plane ride was GREAT! But, the last plane ride, which was just an hour, was soooo tiring because it was late at night, past the boys’ bedtimes. My son became pretty manic and ultra-hyper from being so very over-tired. I actually felt bad for him that he was losing it pretty bad (though not crying) on the plane and fell asleep 5 minutes from landing only to have to wake up to go the rest of the way home. 🙁 They were troopers, but definitely a looong day and the latest they’ve ever stayed up (18 hours for the one who doesn’t nap and almost 1:15 a.m. when they finally went to bed). Pretty rough!

The Funny

I started writing down some things on our trip that I wanted to share in this article. My three year old cracked me up! 😀 Here are a few things that were either funny or endearing:

The first two days I heard “I want to go home” several times from my youngest son. He did not want to sleep outside his own bed, poor thing. By the last day, he said “I don’t want to go home.”
When asked what dessert he wanted one night he was offered ice cream flavors and one was “Cookies and Cream.” His request was “Cookies without the cream.” LOL Too cute. They didn’t have just cookies, though.
My youngest wanted a combination cereal of Raisin Bran and Froot Loops (yeah cereal choices were limited and we were on vacation) and he ate it! Ewww!
You might remember our potty training experience, but when you gotta go, you gotta go and my youngest had to go when I was in the water with my eldest, hubby was jet skiing, and he said he tried to call for me. He pooped and we had to go clean him up in the bathroom on the beach. Not fun, but poor thing!! I’m sure when he’s 20 he’ll love that I shared this here. 😀
It’s so interesting how you have to be “strong” for your kids. I grew up in California and hated seaweed, but found myself saying things like “It won’t hurt you. They’re just plants in the water.” to my youngest. I had to even touch it to move it out of the way! :O Too funny.
It was past nap time and I was holding my son in the ocean and he started falling asleep in my arms from the movement of the waves. So sweet! Awww!

The REALLY “Funny”

Gross but classic was when my husband found my three year old drinking water out of the bidet (something used to clean yourself after going to the bathroom in French areas)!!! OMG! It’s just too “funny” not to share. I would have taken a picture, but of course, that is too gross not to stop right then and there. LOL

Share your good, bad, ugly, and funny summer moments!

Now that I’m back, if you’re looking for ways to get your baby or toddler into a healthy sleeping routine, please be sure to pick up your FREE copy of 5 Ways to Help Your Child Sleep Through the Night, our e-Book with tear-free tips to help your baby sleep better. For those persistent nighttime struggles, check out The 3-Step System to Help Your Baby Sleep (babies) or The 5-Step System to Better Toddler Sleep (toddlers). Using a unique approach and practical tools for success, our e-books help you and your baby sleep through the night and nap better. For those looking for a more customized solution for your unique situation with support along the way, please consider one-on-one baby and toddler sleep consultations, where you will receive a Personalized Sleep Plan® you can feel good about! Sometimes it’s not that you can’t make a plan. Sometimes you’re just too tired to.