Camping

Sounds like heaps of fun! We're hoping to get some camping in this summer too, luckily we have a tent that's big enough for a portacot. I'm sure it's warm enough (especially after a gorgeous day like today!) as long as you wrap him up nice and warm at night.

Haven't camped with a baby before, only young kids, so not of much use wrt what to take, but there are 4-5 other threads that look useful (search results here)

yea he is brestfeed so im thankful for that! i thought co sleeping would prob be best and easyest and i can keep him warm . im so hopeless at tents so am going to give myself and dp plenty of daylight hours to get it up (hes prity hopless to not that he would admit it)

ETA: thanks for the links

Edited by kathyandbub

We will be going camping for 2 1/2 weeks at Xmas with no facilites available at all - we have to take everything, toilets, showers, kitchen but damn its fun! Luckily there's about 20 of us that go so we should be alright.

We will take the portacot, Jack will NOT be sleeping with us (in the same room, but no way is he sleeping in our bed) and we will have our gas cooker in case we need to heat a bottle up. I don't think it really should be much different, you just have to make sure they're warm. A sleeping bag with shoulders is a good idea for wriggly babies. Also when I was little mum used to wrap is in god knows how many layers when she put us to bed as it gets pretty chilly where we camp. You'll have a blast!

Do you normally cosleep as you might find this hard to do if you don't usually do so. Plus be very ready for a whole heap of extra night feeds if he's not used to cosleeping.
Camping is fun with little ones. It takes a little bit of planning but is so worth it. DOn't forget a torch or some kind of lighting cause you can be sure at some point you'll need to see and it'll be dark.

We took Caleb at 8 months up to Kai Iwi Lakes (no power, showers etc) and it was a piece of cake. He was still bf and not quite crawling. He actually started crawling once we got home.

He slept in his portacot in a polarfleece sleeping bag with a nice big woollen blanket. This seemed to keep him nice and warm. We took a few of those fold up chairs and I kept one in our tent next to his portacot for early and late feeds. We both took turns at having a lie down with him in the afternoon to give him one sleep that wasn't in his buggy, other than that he alternated between his buggy and the picnic blanket on the beach/grass.

We took disposables, plenty of wipes, cans of baby food, a big picnic blanket for the beach and his buggy which was great for getting over the sand and rough surfaces. One mistake we made was to buy jars of baby food we hadn't tried him on before and he didn't like them, so he ate lots of bread and bananas.