Camping - 4 month old - Too Young?

merlin68

How on earth do babies survive in Africa. LOL. He will be fine.

cole1711

We took our 2 1/2 month old daughter camping for 5 days in July to a big car show . Went well prepared with steriliser , etc and had no problems . My daughter slept in the carrycot from her pram . had grobag and extra blankets for her but she was fine and much warmer than myself and husband . We do not creep around at home so luckily she slept through all noise and a week before we left she was sleeping through the night and that stayed the same whilst camping .
We were prepared that if it did not work out we would just go home , you can only but try these things .

inkie

As you're experienced campers and baby is breastfed, then i'd say go for it. Have a great time, and if it does go belly up for whatever reason, then you're not too far away to come home.

grey_lady

Camping where? And what time of year? If it's for a musical festival such as reading/glastonbury or a punk rock revival weekend for instance then I'd think not, bit different on a family friendly campsite in the lake district in August.

1sttimer_2

No problems I would say - we used to camp in the past when our children were small. We only stopped when tent leaked one holiday and had to rent a caravan (really old one no-one wanted LOL) but OH felt so much better in that so we didn't replace tent but went on to caravanning!

As for noise, my OH sleep talks and on one holiday in Bonnie Scotland, the 2 girls in the next tent to us told us that he had kept them awake all night, I must have been used to it because I didn't hear him! :eek::eek:

We could only apologise, but fortunately they laughed about it.

eamon

At Glastonbury this year I was camping next to a 3 generation family/party, grand parents, parents, children and a very young looking baby probably under 8 months. Not a peep or scream all 5 days.

Keith

Well, we went for it. We went to a place just outside Buckingham that was an hour by the direction Sat Nav took us but 30 minutes by common sense on the way home. Our friends brought their two year old, a gazebo and a lot of tarpaulin so we had a living space, until it was destroyed by wind on Saturday.

We took our dog and were welcomed into the local pub, until he saw we had two children with us and were asked to leave.



We kept her warm all over the two days.



Our makeshift lounge!



He loved it.

We had a lot of fun and have booked to go again in the middle of next month before putting the kit away until the Spring.

victory

Excellent glad you had a good time:D