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Anon says
Two random questions of an almost new mom! Baby is due in a month:
– We live in a small one bedroom apartment. Baby will be sleeping in the room with us in the beginning. Middle of the night diaper changes….did you have a night light? How did you handle seeing when you needed to but not simply switch on the real huge light.
– Spouse alarm. My husband will be going back to work two weeks after the baby is born. He will be setting an alarm. Did you just set your phone on vibrate and put it under the pillow? If the baby is sleeping it would be nice for him to be able to get up and not wake the baby up.
Anonymous says
First: We have a lamp on the changing table (dresser with a changing pad) that has a very soft, maybe 20W (?), light bulb in it. More than a night light, but less than an overhead light or harsh lamp.
Second: This comes up for us in hotel rooms. I usually use vibrate on the bed beside me. Not a bedside table, because that ends up crazy loud.
anon says
we also started out in a one bedroom apartment. we actually had the changing area set up in our living room and used the light under our microwave for middle of the night diaper changes. alternatively if you have a nightstand with a light on there you could use that. what time does your spouse wake up for work? we tried to get our baby on an eating schedule from fairly early on, which was around 7/10/1/4/7/10 etc., so baby actually had to be awake around when spouse had to go to work. when babies are really little they are also often able to sleep through loud noises around them or at least mine was. i could have the tv on and the baby would still be sleeping
AnotherAnon says
+1 to all this. While we all slept in the same room until LO was 5 months; whoever was tasked with feeding and changing that night would get baby and go into the living room to feed/change. He only got diaper changes periodically – he just wasn’t usually that wet. We had a light dimmer but TBH I got to where I could just change him by the light of the hi-fi system.
Anonymous says
+1 – our changing table was in the hallway
AwayEmily says
First: we ordered some amber nightlights (search on amazon) for middle of the night changes. Apparently the amber light doesn’t wake them up as much. Another tip: don’t change the diaper unless they are super wet or have pooped. You definitely don’t need to change it every time.
Second: would that I had had the opportunity to deal with this…our kids have always been early to bed, early to rise, so nobody ever gets to sleep past 5:30 or so.
Mama Llama says
Amen, to your second point!
Boston Legal Eagle says
+1 to both of these. I think the last time I used an alarm was when we went on a solo couples vacation… Our toddler is up at 5:20 so that’s when husband is up and then I follow shortly thereafter.
Mama Llama says
For middle of the night diaper changes, I turn on the flashlight of my iPhone and then aim it at a wall or something, so it’s not shining right on him, but providing ambient light. Specifically, I prop it against the changing pad at the end with the baby’s feet and aim it away from the baby. I find that sufficient to change a diaper without turning on a light that will shine in the baby’s eyes.
Anonymous says
1- a lamp
2- eh, babies sleep through lots. Wait and see if it’s an issue.
Seafinch says
For nighttime nursing, I finally found the best German nightlight, the closest thing here is the Ikea Kids, Luriga. I just bought one for our next baby. BUT after three kids, I never changed at night. My kids slept through and never needed it, so it might be moot.
Anon says
We didn’t often change at night, unless there was obviously a poop. And when we needed to change a poop, we just turned on a regular overhead light. It wasn’t a big deal (we all went right back to bed) and I’m not sure I would have been able to see well enough to change a messy diaper with just a small nightlight.
For the alarm, it depends. If your husband is going to instantly hit the alarm off, get up and go, the baby can probably sleep through it at least in the beginning. If he wants to be hitting snooze constantly, he may need to set it to vibrate or even sleep on the couch. I definitely wouldn’t count on the baby being an alarm clock. Our daughter went down for her longest stretch of sleep beginning about 1 am when she was a newborn, and she was pretty quickly sleeping 1-9 am. She never really got off that schedule, just started going to bed earlier and earlier, and now as a 14 month old sleeps 9-9. I’m a night owl too, so there may be a genetic component to it.
Anonymous says
We just had a regular plugin nightlight that was enough to do a diaper change. Agree with those who said no need to change every time!
I wouldn’t worry about it unless you find out baby is particularly sensitive to sounds. Ours slept through everything (and still does) but I know not everyone has that experience.
lawsuited says
We used a table lamp with a dark shade or the light of the feeding timer on my cellphone for nighttime diaper changes. Also, we initially changed LO’s diaper at every nighttime feed until all the parents we knew told us they only change poop diapers at night.
Don’t worry about the alarm yet. A cellphone alarm is unlikely to wake your newborn so don’t preemptively solve that problem.
JTM says
I got one of the Gummy Bear night lights for middle of the night diaper changes in the same room and it worked great, I had the red one but they come in lots of different colors – https://www.amazon.com/Gummygoods-Squeezable-Gummy-Babies-Toddlers/dp/B002L0VOP2?th=1
RR says
We had a very soft watt lamp for middle of the night when we needed light (although we also got really good at changing #1 diapers in the dark.
I wouldn’t assume that your husband’s alarm will wake the baby, but I’d use vibrate if it did. My twins could each sleep through the other one screaming, and they still sleep like the dead as tweens.
aelle says
For the alarm, we use our Fitbit vibrating functions. Sometimes I sleep right through my husband getting up, which is wonderful.
KonMari Addict says
Same! I had an old fitbit – the kind that clips on to your clothes – that I had gotten as a gift and never used and bought a wristband for it. I think new ones are pricey but I’m sure someone in your friend/family network has one they don’t use.
Batgirl says
We got this nightlight with our second, and it’s been awesome. We even got a second to use in our room now that he’s moved to the nursery! https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0785DT97B/ref=oh_aui_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Anonymous says
Do NOT put your phone in your bed/bedding while you sleep. It is dangerous and a major fire hazard. My BIL is a firefighter and he sees so many fires start this way. My cousin used to sleep with her phone under her pillow and it caused a fire that destroyed her entire apartment. Luckily she escaped unharmed but most of her stuff was gone and her landlord had to renovate her entire apartment from scratch after fixing all the smoke and fire damage. Phones in the bedding is a huge hazard and it should not be done.
Anonymous says
Supposed to get genetic testing results today… and have a ton of work to do. Nervous!
lsw says
Hang in there! Sometimes I would try to frame my mind like: “By this time tomorrow, I’ll know.” Puts it in perspective, sort of. Are you finding out sex?
Anonymous says
Thank you! Just got them in and it’s good news! Plus we did find out the sex. Now I have to figure out how I feel about that…
anon says
What do you do when cry it out (CIO) isn’t working? We have been sleep training our 17-month-old for months and months. There are good nights when he goes down easily and sleeps till 4 or 5 am and bad nights where cries/screams at bedtime and throughout the night. It just never feels like we are making progress, every night is a crapshoot. The only thing I can count on is that he will wake up and scream. Is the shutdown keeping him up?! What is going on?
I’ll admit that we have not always been consistent, sometimes we give up and I hold him and nurse him for hours in my bed. I am tired. I barely see him throughout the day (he’s in daycare), he cries at drop off and then cries throughout the night, I fell like I only see him crying on weekdays. I cannot take it anymore. He is otherwise a content little guy, not a fussy kid, i just cannot figure out this sleep thing. I would be open to co-sleeping with him if that worked, but he stays awake, gets up an plays, or has multiple screaming wakings.
Anon says
Could you hire a sleep consultant? Kid seems hard, and you have tried so many things! My friends in similar situations (although with younger kids) have been SO glad they hired someone. Your sanity and sleep are worth it.
Mama Llama says
+1
lawsuited says
I know it’s not what you want to hear, but CIO will ONLY work with consistency. Your toddler is definitely waking each night and putting himself back to sleep some nights so he’s able to fall asleep independently. But some nights he doesn’t want to, and you’ve taught him that if he cries long enough and hard enough he will get to nurse and sleep in your bed. So now you have to teach him that his only option is to fall asleep independently. It sucks. It sucks, sucks, sucks.
I recommend getting a sleep clock to reinforce the rules even when you aren’t in the room. And turn off the baby monitor when he’s crying so it doesn’t bother you as much.
anon says
agreed. and i’ve heard with older kids it can take a bit longer. commit to doing CIO 100% for 2 weeks. if you need to put in ear plugs, or have DH stay home for a bit and leave the house. a sleep consultant can only help so much because they will give you a plan but will also just tell you to be consistent. how does your kid do with naps? because nap timing could be off which could be making a difference as well. listening to your kid cry is THE WORST
RR says
This. It’s so, so hard, but if you aren’t consistent it actually teaches them to cry more. Hugs. This is such a hard age for it too.
AwayEmily says
Yes to all of this — consistency is key. One mantra that helped me get through some rough CIO-ing was telling myself that it was harder on the kid emotionally if I came sometimes but not always — then she’d think “why does mama only come sometimes and not other times?” and that in and of itself would be stressful. (I’m not saying this is necessarily true; just a way of thinking that helped me).
Leatty says
It sounds cruel, but put on some noise-cancelling headphones, turn on ambient music, and go back to sleep. Let him cry it out. If you need to check on him, just look at the baby monitor. Do not go in his room. Do not call out to him. Do not acknowledge him in any way. He will eventually learn that he has to self-soothe in the middle of the night.
We did CIO when my daughter (now 18 months) was 5 months old primarily to help her get to sleep (I still nursed her in the middle of the night). My daughter generally sleeps through the night, but there have been times in the last 6 months when we have had to let her CIO in the middle of the night to get her back on track (traveling, teething, late nap). It is HARD for me (my husband can sleep through anything). I realized that if I went to her in the middle of the night, it only encouraged her to cry until I fetched her. Then she would giggle happily and want to play in the middle of the night. I eventually realized that if I just ignored her, she would go back to sleep. The first few nights were hard, so I put on head phones, turned on ambient music, and went back to sleep. Eventually, she learned.
Anonymous says
We didn’t want to CIO and used Pantley’s No Cry Sleep Solution with success on all three kids. We used the baby version of the book but there’s now a toddler version too. Not sure the age breakdown between the two.
Friends have also done co-sleeping as they enjoyed the physical closeness overnight when away from the kids all day. They generally put their kid to bed in his own room and then if he woke after the adult bedtime, he was allowed to come into their bed. About half the time he STTN in his crib. This wouldn’t have worked for us as one of the twins is super wiggly and I can’t sleep when he is in the bed.
How much is he napping at daycare? If he’s still on two naps, maybe dropping to one would help. If the screaming is newish or more intensive you can also try tylenol. All my kids got their two year old molars on the early side but they were slow coming in so it was months of painful teething and tylenol on occasion if needed.
Hope you find what works for your family. Hugs.
ifiknew says
I have a 19 month old and in this exact position, no advice, just hugs.
anon OP says
Thank you all for your thoughtful insights. I am trying to steel myself up for some hard core CIO.
What, in a nut shell, is the Pantley method? I have heard about it here many times but cannot find a summary. The best part of all this is that my son is regarded as the “Best Sleeper” at daycare! He just walks over to his cot, lays down, drifts away, and is always the first to go to sleep…. bc he rages all night! Ha. Ha. Ha.
lawsuited says
To me this says that his nighttime antics have everything to do with wanting you to come to him in the middle of the night (which isn’t an option at school so he just goes to sleep).
Anonymous says
It focuses on first keeping a close record of your baby’s sleep pattern to see if you can identify what triggers poor sleep and then developing a consistent calming routine for your baby. Also use of comfort item like a blankie or stuffie. Lulla dolls are great for this. The mom who told me about the book nursed to sleep and put baby down with the t-shirt she was wearing to snuggle/smell. I didn’t do that (I don’t think it’s mentioned in the book, I’m just giving an example), but each of my kids have a bedtime stuffie to cuddle with. Routines vary depending on the kid, at 4 years old one of my twins changed his routine to include asking me the same question every night (why do we have to go to bed?) and then I give him the same one sentence answer every night. He does the same exchange with DH if I’m away for work. The consistency of the routine is soothing to him. His twin brother DNGAF about this aspect of the routine but he needs a water bottle next to his bed even though he doesn’t drink from it. Question twin DNGAF about a water bottle.
What works in terms of routine can be so specific for each kid. Since he sleeps so well for naptime, are there parts of that routine you could replicate at home?
We did it with the baby book so I never read the toddler version but at 17 months the toddler version of the book is probably the one for you.
Anon says
First Q – is it teething or 2YO molars? We had to give motrin or tylenol nightly for the 1YO molars and canines for her to sleep for more than an hour at a time.
CIO never worked for our kiddo (she’s a screamer until she pukes and then we have to deal with that mess, got her stubbornness from her mama), and we tried it at 5 months, 9 months, 12 months and she was just never ready. We survived with a combination of rocking to sleep, co-sleeping, falling asleep in bed with mama and then transfer to the crib. And we unplugged the monitor so we only got woken up for full out wailing, not random squawks. From 13 months-17 months I started sitting in the chair in her room and shushing her as she fell asleep. Over the course of a few months, I eased further and further out in the hallway and around the corner, sneaking away once she was asleep. We weaned at 16 months, which I think helped a lot. At 17 months now, for the last week I’ve had success with jammies, book, cuddle with daddy, then we go back into her room, I rock her and sing her 2 songs, and then I put her down in the crib, tell her good night, shush her and walk out the door. The first night she half-heartedly cried for 10 minutes which I thought was a miracle and surely just a mistake, the next 5 minutes and then the past couple of nights it’s barely a whimper. Query whether that coincides with us finally consistently getting 1 nap a day, but at least for us there is finally a light at the end of the very long sleep tunnel.
lawsuited says
I have the women’s version of these Ugg slippers (Ainsley, I think?) and they are one of my absolute favourite items. So good if you are spending hours standing while rocking or wearing a newborn…or running outside to put the recycling out because the garbage truck driving down your street reminded you it’s garbage day.
callie says
I have a dumb question about these sorts of slippers–I have some knock-off ugg brand and I wear them in my apartment in winter months all the time (we are in NYC and do no shoes in the house). Here’s my question, do they smell? Mine start to really smell and make my feet smell. How do people get around this? I literally have thrown mine in the washermachine before (no, they’re not machinewashable but it got to the point where I figured either they’re machinewashable or they’re going in the garbage so it was worth a try).
lawsuited says
Mine don’t smell at all and I’ve had them for 3 years. I have plenty of other shoes that smell so it’s not like it’s my magic feet or something. A friend of mine has washed the insoles of hers (not in the washing machine though) because they looked grubby and it worked well.
HSAL says
I had a stinky pair of slippers from Lands End – it got SO BAD that I finally poured some baking soda in there and kind of ground it in, left if for awhile, then poured it out. It made the inside less fluffy so they’re not as soft, but at least they’re not so smelly now.
HSAL says
Oh, and it’s definitely specific to the slipper for me because none of my other shoes stink.
Anonymous says
I don’t know about shearling slippers, but I deal with odor in ballet shoes and ankle braces by spraying them with vodka or putting them in the freezer.
RR says
Same. I absolutely adore them.
SC says
+1. I received a pair of Ugg slippers for Christmas, and I never want to take them off. They’re so comfortable around the house! I can spend hours on my feet and not think twice about it–which, for me, is only true in tennis shoes and those slippers.
anon says
I’m on my second pair of Ugg slippers. The first pair lasted years and never got stinky. The new puppy killed them, though. Second pair is just a few months old. I spilled red wine on them about three weeks after getting them and washed them generously with water, air dried overnight but they were still very wet so dried on very low in the tumble dryer. I think they shrunk a tiny bit b/c they are quite snug, but seem to be stretching back out. TL;DR: great investment, love them!
anon says
PS I have also had shoes get stinky before, mostly leather work shoes in the summer (no hose b/c it is HOT in Texas in August).
Anon says
Breastfeeding leggings – ie highwaisted leggings so you don’t show off your stomach while breastfeeding. What are your favorites?
GCA says
Ah, a fellow member of Team pull-up-the-shirt-to-nurse! (I find pulling-down and unclipping multiple layers of things too fiddly, especially in winter.) I like Athleta Metro leggings.
Anonymous says
I just continued my maternity over the bump leggings pulled all the way up until they basically fell apart. RIP softest leggings ever.
Ranon says
Blanqui
Boston Legal Eagle says
Ugh, another sleep question. For those of you whose kids share a room due to preference or lack of other space, how early did you move the younger kid in with the bigger kid? We’ve got our 3 month old in our room still and would like to move him to his 2.5 year old brother’s room but baby is not sleeping through the night. In fact, he’s gotten worse in the last few days due to who knows what but could be a combination of hearing us at night, breaking out of the swaddle, growth spurt, etc. etc. We’ve been trying to do a dream feed at around 10, but then he’s still been waking up twice more before toddler is up. Is it too early to move him over? Should we wait and sleep train him first?
Anonymous says
If your toddler is sleeping through the night, I’d be reluctant to move the baby into his room when the baby is restless and you still have to go in at night. That introduces the toddler to the idea that you are awake and available at night. I’d wait until baby is down to one wake up overnight before moving him. We moved at 8 months and it was a pretty seamless transition.
lawsuited says
Yeaaah, as much as the 4 month sleep regression sucks I think you’re going to have to take the brunt of it rather than your toddler. Based on anecdata for on friends, our plan is to sleep train our newborn at 5 months and move her into toddler’s room at 6 or 7 months.
Carine says
Yeah that was our plan too and we are now dealing with the 8-(9-10)month sleep regression. I think there will be hard phases whenever you do it. Everyone will survive! (I hope.)
AwayEmily says
I have been putting off the move — our toddler is almost 3 and the baby is almost 1. Baby is still in the guest room. I really love the idea of them sharing a room, but really hate the idea of either of them getting less sleep (in this situation it would probably be the toddler, since baby wakes up early). I think I need to just suck it up and realize that it will be a good enough thing in the long term to outweigh the short-term costs.
Spirograph says
Around 4-5 months. Toddler was a sound sleeper and literally woke up only one time as a result of baby screams. Ever.
Small nightlight in the room for late night diaper changes or sneaking in to comfort baby as needed, et voila!
I say move the baby. Make sure to talk to the toddler about how baby might cry and mom or dad will come help, so he can just snuggle in his bed and go back to sleep. Also talk to toddler about being quiet at bedtime (assuming baby’s bedtime is earlier). It will probably be fine. Good luck! The real trouble comes when they’re both old enough that they want to talk and play after bedtime, but you have at least a solid year where they probably will be fine.
Travel with new baby? says
Obviously will be checking with pediatrician, but thoughts on flying (2 hours) with baby for dear friend’s wedding approximately two months after due date?
Anna says
I actually found flying with a young baby a lot easier than when they get older. Just nurse/feed and snuggle. I’d go for it.
AnotherAnon says
I say go for it! We waited until baby was almost a year to try air travel (not really on purpose – just didn’t have any long distance events). I wish we had at least car traveled more often when baby was really small. They sleep all the time, aren’t disturbed by noises or moving around, aren’t mobile or that curious about their environment changing all the time, don’t have to be entertained, have an easy/readily available source of food at hand…need I go on?
Anon says
My ped was strongly against it until DD had her two months shots and was somewhat protected from whooping cough. That said, if it’s a best friend, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I would probably tentatively plan to go, but not purchase plane tickets until the baby is here and confirmed to be healthy. Flying with them is actually ridiculously easy at that age. If you put them in a wrap or infant carseat (would require their own seat) they’ll likely sleep the whole way.
Travel with new baby? says
Yeah, that’s my concern, vaccinations. Also would be near Seattle (relatively high non-vaccination rates)…
Anon says
I would talk about it with your ped then. The two month vaccines don’t protect against flu, measles, rubella, any of that, pretty much nothing except whooping cough. So unless there’s a whooping cough outbreak in Seattle at the time you plan to go, I don’t know that the vaccination rates in Seattle have much relevance. But I’m not a doctor. I definitely don’t think you should make any firm arrangements before the birth, because the baby can always have some health issues and then you almost certainly can’t go. But it’s normally no big deal to book plane tickets ~6 weeks out. Hopefully your friend will be understanding that your plans will be up in the air for a while.
Walnut says
Big measles outbreak in the Portland/Vancouver WA area right now.
Anon says
Yikes that’s scary! All the more reason to discuss with the ped. The two month shots could potentially be moved up a week or two, but they can’t get MMR until they’re about a year old, so the measles outbreak would make me very nervous.
Anonymous says
We waited for the first round of shots. But in general, go for it! Pretty easy at that age. My son hated the car seat but air travel was fine.
More Sleep Would Be Nice says
+1. Flew last January with DS who was just shy of 2 months, but only after he got his shots. Peds orders. In hindsight, was really simple. Didn’t buy DS a seat, kept him with me the whole time for a 2-3 hour flight.
More Sleep says
Should add, I flew solo (DH had work travel). Would have been even more of a breeze with DH along!
Anon says
What time of year? I’d feel differently about this depending on whether it’s cold and flu season. Avoiding germs on an airplane is hard.
Logistically, I think flying with a 2 month old would actually probably be easier than flying with an older baby or a toddler. Really for me it would just be fear of germs holding me back more than anything.
Travel with new baby? says
September, so hopefully before cold and flu season.
Anonymous says
I would do it but if you can drive, in my experience, that’s easier with small babies. It’s great to be able to leave and stop when you want and bring your own pack n play/baby gear/stroller etc.
Anon says
Just as a counterpoint, I think driving would be way way harder with a 2 month old. A 2 hour flight is probably a 10(?) hour drive, which will be more like 15 hours if you’re stopping regularly to breastfeed (even if you’re fine using formula or previously pumped milk, a nursing mother of a 2 month old can’t go 10 hours without at least a couple of breaks to pump/feed, she’d be extremely uncomfortable and leaking all over the place). Even if OP isn’t planning to nurse at all, AAP now says babies need breaks from the car seat every two hours for safety reasons. There’s no way this drive isn’t going to take 12+ hours, which sounds positively hellacious to me with a baby.
And you can take a pack n play/stroller on an airplane. Strollers gate check for free, car seats can also be checked for free if you don’t want to buy the baby a seat. Pack n play you’ll generally have to pay to check (unless you have airline elite status), but it’s not a big deal – the $25 checked bag fee is well worth it for avoiding the long drive imo. Most hotels also offer free pack n plays.
Mama Llama says
I agree. And both of my kids at 2 months screamed for most of every car ride because they hated the car seat. Older child would stop when the car was in motion, but the younger one just screamed the whole time.
SC says
+1. We took a 6-week old on a 4-hour drive to visit family over 4th of July. It was really tough. We had to stop to nurse twice on the way there, even though he normally ate every 2 hours. I had the first stop all planned out, but 45 minutes later, I ended up nursing in the car, in the parking lot of a church (which was not holding services at that moment).
And, although this is unlikely to happen to anyone else, on the way back, our car broke down while stopped to nurse for a second time. It was July in the South, and, unbeknownst to us, one of the fan belts had broken. So, as we sat in the car, with me nursing in the back seat, we ran the AC for 20-30 minutes (I didn’t expect it to take that long because the kid had just eaten), everything under the hood (practically) overheated and melted. Fortunately, we were across from a hotel and stopped for the night. The next morning, my husband left me and Baby in the hotel room and had the car towed to the closest dealership and called Hertz to bring him a car, then drove back, picked us up, and we drove home. So that was fun, and we got a new car.
I’d fly with a 2 month old.
Travel with new baby? says
Unfortunately, drive would be too long. We also have a 3yo (would be 3.5) and she’s way easier on the plane than in the car….
Canadian says
Definitely doable. I skipped a wedding two weeks post due date that required flying (and am very glad I did- that was the worst period for colic for us). But at 2 months we went to a wedding which had a 4 hour drive and it was fine (baby slept basically the entire way both ways). It was my friend’s wedding so husband was basically on baby duty (which ended up meaning that for most of it he was either wearing him in the ergo or walking around with him in the stroller outside so as to not interrupt the speeches).
Anonymous says
We flew cross-country with our twins 2 months and 4 days after their due date and it was probably the easiest flight we’ve ever had with them. At that age they were still sleeping a lot so were either in their carseat or snuggled in a carrier for most of the flight, so weren’t exposed to germs in the same way that an older baby who puts everything in their mouth is. (They were born a month early, though, so were 3 months actual at the time and thus already had their 2 month vaccines.)
CHL says
Obviously ask your Ped but I flew with my 3 month old to an area that was currently having a measles “outbreak.” His perspective was that even a newsworthy outbreak is a very small overall risk and that he would be fine travelling with his own child.
Pumping question says
All the talk about pumping yesterday got my curious if I’m doing it wrong. My baby is 4 months old and I started pumping when she was about 4 weeks old. I have a pretty large freezer stash (around 700 oz). I’m back at work now and pump enough for her bottles the next day but I’ve been giving her the frozen milk from the stash and freezing what I bring home from work. My thought was to use up the older milk first. Should I be giving her the fresh milk? I have a few trips coming up in February and March and I’m not sure I’ll being pumped milk home so that’s the reason for the stash.
HSAL says
I give fresh milk Tuesday-Friday and freeze Friday’s milk. Then I thaw the oldest milk for Monday’s bottles. That way most of the milk is closest to what she “needs” then, since they say milk changes as your baby gets older. I somewhat suspect that might be overblown, but at the very least only freezing milk once a week saves you a lot of bags.
Anonymous says
That’s such good advice. Why didn’t I do that?! I would mostly do fresh and then realize that I had milk that was about to expire and do 3-4 days of frozen.
AK says
You have 700 oz at home. At 12 oz/workday, you have 58 workdays (~12 weeks) of breastmilk stored up. Milk is only good for so long in the freezer – from 6-12 months, depending if you have a deepfreeze or sidebyside. I would use thawed, frozen milk for at least 3 days a week so you don’t end up with expired/close to expiring milk. If it’s working for you, always freeze and thaw! I had a much smaller stash than you (120 oz?) and did what HSAL did – froze Friday’s milk and thawed the oldest-frozen for Monday.
Anon says
I would give fresh milk whenever possible. Milk that was pumped recently is best suited to your baby’s needs, both generally (fat content, etc) and also in terms of specific infection-fighting properties (if you have a cold that your baby may catch, freshly pumped milk will have antibodies against that cold, the freezer milk obviously won’t). I view freezer milk as a backup to use when you don’t have freshly pumped milk available or baby’s intake exceeds your output. Caveat that I didn’t put that much pressure on myself to pump and never built a big stash, so I started supplementing with formula around 6 months.
Anon says
I personally mix it up so that baby is getting some fresh (not frozen) milk along with the frozen. There’s some evidence that freezing eliminates some of the nutrients/antibioties, plus then you don’t have to deal with thawing every single bottle. Using frozen milk for Mondays is a good suggestion.
Anonymous says
Use fresh whenever baby has a cold because it will contain the antibodies to fight the cold that you are producing.