https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:06:46 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/road-trip-with-a-3-month-old-tips-appreciated#post-2410839 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 07:49:02 +0000 ms.line 2410839@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'm planning on taking a 13 hour road trip (each way) with our baby at 3 months. No advice obviously, but I hope it goes great for you! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/road-trip-with-a-3-month-old-tips-appreciated#post-2410836 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 07:41:41 +0000 regberadaisy 2410836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know it sounds scary doing it for the first time. But road trips are the easiest (for us!) when they're that young! Plan to leave around nap time, if she's good/sleeping, then keep going! When you do have to stop I would fuel up each time to elongate the next stretch. Good luck! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/road-trip-with-a-3-month-old-tips-appreciated#post-2410828 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 07:32:34 +0000 looch 2410828@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At any age, my big tip for road trips is to bring an old towel you don't care about losing and a big trash bag. Just in case there's car sickness, you'll need to clean it up and get rid of it. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/road-trip-with-a-3-month-old-tips-appreciated#post-2410784 Wed, 06 Jan 2016 02:59:53 +0000 birdofafeather 2410784@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Have the supplies you need for a stop ready: diapers,wipes, burp cloth, etc.<br /> be prepared to hold your bladder if the baby is sleeping. Also, bring snacks and drinks for you and DH so you don't have to make a sudden stop if baby is sleeping<br /> I learned to have a manual pump or bottle ready in case of traffic and baby screaming for food. Feed on the go! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/road-trip-with-a-3-month-old-tips-appreciated#post-2410716 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 22:27:32 +0000 Keybee 2410716@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Following! We have one trip planned when DD is 6 months, a 5 hour drive, but I'd like to have a long weekend so where warmer this winter when she's 3 months or so. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/road-trip-with-a-3-month-old-tips-appreciated#post-2410498 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:28:58 +0000 Mrsk 2410498@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did a road trip at 3 months, Altho it was only 5 hours, each way. DS hates the car and his car seat so we were really nervous. We only drove when it was nap time for him. We would stop when he woke up and have breakfast, and walk around with him for fresh air, then when he was ready for the next nap (2 hours later) we would drive. I would lean over and nurse him in the car, he would fall asleep and then I would crawl into the front seat so I could sit with DH. We couldn't stop the car for me to switch seats or he would wake up. We set up a little changing station in the back seat on the other side so diaper changes were quick and easy. It took us a while to drive the normal five hours, like 10 in total, but we stopped at a lot of really nice restaurants and had great meals, it's was our vacation too, right? I love the idea of leaving at bed time and driving thru the night, but DH didn't want to do it.it does mean you arrive at your destination tired. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/road-trip-with-a-3-month-old-tips-appreciated#post-2410487 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:15:04 +0000 Mrs.KMM 2410487@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We did a road trip at that age (11-12 hours to my parents, 3.5 hours to my sister's, 3.5 hours back to my parents, and then 11-12 hours home). Honestly, I found road trips at that age to be super easy because DD pretty much slept the whole drive. We did the 11 to 12 hour days in just one long stretch (other than stops for food, feedings, gas, etc.). Personally, I would not want to break them up into two days. That is just too much time traveling back-and-forth. </p> <p> The only thing that I found particularly helpful was a light up and music playing mirror that we bought from target. It was great when DD got a little fussy and just needed something to watch and be entertained by.</p> <p>ETA: we did all driving during the day. We left right after DD woke up and eight in the morning. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/road-trip-with-a-3-month-old-tips-appreciated#post-2410464 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:37:14 +0000 stratosphere 2410464@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Good luck! We did a (MUCH SHORTER!) 5-hr-each-direction road trip with LO when she was three months old. It was rough. We had the car so packed with stuff that there was no room to sit next to her in the back seat and that is my regret. She was freaking out crying back there for hours on end--I'm not sure that one of us being back there for her to see and to comfort her would have totally changed that. But it couldn't have hurt. We would talk and try to soothe her by voice from the front seat but it seemed to just make her more angry that we wouldn't pick her up. At that time she had definite "witching hours" between 5-10pm. We were stupid to drive during that time. At home she screamed for that entire time period unless being bounced on a yoga ball--literally. So doing most of our 5-hr drive during that timeframe on the way down was a disaster. It was much better on the way home when we drove during the day.</p> <p>We brought her bassinet (a collapsible UB Vista bassinet that packed great) and stroller base, a bunch of clothes and swaddles (we didn't have access to laundry on our trip), and almost brought the (deflated) yoga ball, but didn't. We didn't bring a baby bath or anything and it was fine. It was nice to have her bassinet that she was used to sleeping in. I was exclusively breastfeeding so that made that part easy.</p> <p>At the end of the trip we both wished we had just flown because enduring her screaming for hours on end (even with regular stops to try to soothe her and make sure she was dry and not hungry - nope, just mad!) was traumatic. But she was a pretty challenging baby until she hit 4 months and magically got happier/easier/more comfortable.</p> <p>Good luck! I'm sure others will have more helpful tips! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/road-trip-with-a-3-month-old-tips-appreciated#post-2410461 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:35:46 +0000 gingerbebe 2410461@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>This is actually a great age to do road trips at, especially if you time driving to when they are most likely to sleep.</p> <p>We drove 400 miles to my parent's house for Thanksgiving when DS was about 10-11 weeks old. We left after his dreamfeed at 11pm, tucked him into his carseat with a portable white noise machine, put a dark blanket over the canopy, and drove like bats out of hell all night long. We made great time because we drove in the middle of the night and arrived before 5am the next morning. Grandparents took over taking care of the baby and DH and I crashed for a few hours between pumpings/feedings.</p> <p>There was AWFUL traffic on the way back - we left at 4:30pm and didn't get home until after 1:00am and had to stop a few times for feedings, pumping, and changing, but DS did great and slept for the most part.</p> <p>DH made a Pandora playlist of soothing songs and would put it on whenever DS started crying in the carseat, and between that and me holding a paci in his mouth, he would calm down and go to sleep. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/road-trip-with-a-3-month-old-tips-appreciated#post-2410452 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 17:28:19 +0000 Pumuckl 2410452@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>At that age I'd break the trip up (just like you plan to) and otherwise drive when baby hopefully sleeps. When we road tripped with our then 5 month old we brought a changing pad so we could do diaper changes in the car and used it for baby for lay on for a couple of minutes to get his energy out. Other than that BF on demand and sleeping in good hotels so you feel comfortable to bring baby along. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/road-trip-with-a-3-month-old-tips-appreciated#post-2410430 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 16:56:49 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 2410430@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH and I are probably crazy, but we're going to take a road trip to introduce DD to my family. It'll be a 13.5 hour drive to my moms, a 3.5 hour drive from my mom's to my dad's, and then an 11 hour drive from my dad's to home. We'll break the longer two legs of the trip up into two days. I'm a little stressed thinking about the logistics! What all would you travel with for a 3 month old? Any tips for surviving long hours in a car with a baby? How often would you stop?</p> <p>Thanks! </p>