Trip - What is the longest road trip you have taken alone with your baby?

What is the longest road trip you have taken alone with your baby?

Just you and baby! NO other adult.

How long was the road trip? And what was the age of the baby when you took the road trip?

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I drove from Dallas to College Station TX. IT is a four hour trip. The baby slept the whole way there and the whole way back. It was fine. She was four months on the first trip all the way up to 1 year. We would go about once a month to see family. WE eventually just moved back to College Station.
2 hours (Temple to Dallas, TX), 11 months

My husband was in Iraq. Prior to that, I had help (hubby) for a 22 hour trip to Wisonsin when he was 4 months old.
just me and him? only an hr.

my husband gets weird about me going places alone thats far away with our son. he's so weird. lol

but we are going to be driving to san diego for my sisters weddingi n august which is about a 5-6 hr. trip from where we are.
I drove from Richmond to Norfolk VA (2 hrs) there and back in one day when my baby was 6 weeks old. It was there perfect amount of time for napping and fortunately she LOVED her carseat (that is KEY).

Drove with help (my sister) to Florida (16 hours in two days) when baby was 2 months. It was really easy because she slept so well in her carseat.

Next, when baby was 4 months, we moved to St. Louis and drove from Richmond, VA to St. Louis, MO (14 hours in two days). My husband and I each drove a car, so I was alone in the car, but not alone on the trip. I was a lot easier when she was younger because she slept a lot more!

I recommend stopping on a schedule (every three hours, especially in you are nursing) just to make sure that baby isn't sleeping in a dirty diaper and for everyone to stretch their legs!
I traveled from San Antonio Tx to Lawton Ok. It was on the Greyhound bus. My husband (boyfriend at the time) was graduating Basic Training at Fort Sill. My daughter was 1 month and 1/2. This was the first time he saw her...I was pregnant when he left. It was about a 10 hr trip and she slept most of the way!
We went from Fort Polk, LA to Waco TX - about a 6-7 hour drive. My daughter was born at Fort Polk and we left when she was 6 months so any trips home were before that. It was just me, her, my 4 year old son, and the Golden Retriever.

I took both kids for weekends in San Antonio by myself while my husband was in Korea ... my daughter was between 6 and 18 months and we stayed in the KOA Kamping Kabins.

I had another son when we were in Korea and when we came back and my husband went to Iraq I took all 3 kids to San Antonio and back and forth between the grandparents

The longest trip I've ever made alone with kids (they were 11, 6 and 4) was when we moved from Bryan-College Station to Monterey, CA - about 27 hrs. My husband had to be there the first of May so we waited until the kids were out of school to follow him. We did it in 4.5 days, with 2 Collies, and again stayed in the Kamping Kabins.

With my husband in the military I get to spend a lot of time single-parenting it so I just decided we weren't going to sit around at home and wait for him to be able to go with us. If he's in the field, training or deployed we just go wherever we want to (always letting him know what we're doing of course).
1 hour and half to my mothers, she was 2wks old, and slept the whole way there. however, we took a road trip, my husband and i in april to biloxi, it was 6 hours, and to be quite honest..I think I would have done much much better on my own. when you have someone else with you, your constantly worried about bothering them with having to stop, or at least I was (he's a good daddy, he really is, but during the day, he is at work, and he totally has not concept of babies, and eating schedules and nap times, play times etc., if he was here during the day i'm sure he would, but he works, and therefore is not here for the day to day activities) anyway, if I was by myself, I would know I need to stop at x and x time, and since it was just me..I wouldn't have to remind someone else to do it, or hear.."well, can you hold off for 30minutes?" lol. also, everytime she whimpered he was like "do we need to pull over?" and i was like, no she's a baby, they cry sometimes. anyway, I haven't personally been on a long road trip since she was born, but we have taken several with our 7 year old, and our 9mth old together, and I don't think it would be much different, if anything, just easier truthfully. my advice? leave earlier then when they wake up, say by 3 hours, then stop for the feedings, and make good time in between. its much easier then it sounds when its planned out.