5.5 month baby on holiday for a week

[Craigy2323]

Hi
We are taking our 5.5 month baby boy on holiday to menorca. Plan to keep him cool in the day and at night follow same routine that he's used to ( bed at 7pm sleeps through..)
We want to make the most of our holiday and eat out in the evenings but not disturb his routine - did anyone find you could continue your routine with baby in pram for those evening hours then back into cot? How do you do it?

[tealover1985]

We have just come back from a week away with a 5 month old. We found the heat made him nap a bit more in the day than normal (or it could have been all the swimming) so bed time was maybe an hour later. I fed in the room in the dark then put down in buggy. Once asleep covered the buggy with a muslin and went outside to eat/ drink at beach bar. If he woke up one of us just walked him up and down for a bit until he went back asleep.

we went back to the room about midnight and transferred to travel cot asleep (DS still feeds through the night so I made this a dreamfeed)

It was honestly loads easier than I thought. The only thing is I fed to sleep quite a bit during the week and it has taken the best part of a week to break this and get back properly into our old routine.

[WarblingOyster]

Yes, it's doable. I've done it with a baby younger than 5 months so its a slightly different ballgame but bedtime was in the pram, then transferred to the travel cot when we returned for bed. It was surprisingly stressfree.