Hello My partner has just spontaneously booked us a holiday to Lanzarote which is a nice gesture but I can’t help but feel stressed as we go next week 🙃 and it’s the first time travelling with our baby (8 mo). I feel like I have quite a last minute scramble to prepare for it - it’s just us and our daughter in a resort for a week. We’ve never even taken our daughter swimming so she doesn’t have any swimwear and I only have about 3 warmer weather outfits for her. I also don’t even know if my summer clothes/swimwear will fit my new mum body, so I will need to buy things for us both before I can even pack. Would really appreciate any advice/encouragement/words of wisdom anyone can give, especially on the below topics
1 - luggage - my partner thinks 1 checked bag to share plus now adding on 2x cabin bags each (Ryanair priority) would work but I feel like taking 4 cabin bags on the plane will be unrealistic as I will be carrying/wearing the baby?? We will also have the pram and the car seat (though I guess the car seat gets checked??)
2 - sleep - at home currently I bedshare with the baby and my partner sleeps in the spare room. I guess we’ll all be in the same double bed in the hotel but I’m worried about the safety of it as at home we have a bed rail, but realistically I don’t see the baby suddenly being able to sleep in a cot and my partner is a heavy sleeper so baby in between us feels like a bad idea
3 - making the airport/getting on the plane/flight as painless an experience as possible with a baby who has 3ish hour wake windows and is just learning to crawl so doesn’t enjoy being contained in the pram/our arms all the time
I know this is very much a first world problem but feel a bit overwhelmed 🙃