Travels with Baby
Many new parents imagine that the birth of a child signifies also the death of the days of fun-filled travel holidays.
I’m here to tell you, that doesn’t have to be so!
Traveling with babies and children absolutely can be enjoyable and rewarding.
All it takes is some preparation, and Shelly Rivoli tells you everything you need to know in her book Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children.
Shelly Rivoli is a mother of two, with a third on the way in February!
Shelly has traveled extensively with her two young daughters (both under 5), by land, by air, and by sea!
Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children really is a complete guide. This 316 page tome begins with tips for planning the actual trip: deciding where to go and when, and what you need to pack.
Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children also advises parents on how to stay on track with nap times, bed times, potty training, and play time while on the road.
There are several chapters devoted to each of the major forms of conveyance. Travels with Baby will arm you with information to have a success whether you choose to fly, drive, take a cruise ship, or travel by train!
Travels with Baby has chapters for special circumstances, like traveling alone with baby, or traveling with multiples.
Shelly Rivoli is a very personable writer and includes personal anecdotes and photos in Travels with Baby.
Shelly has her own website and blog at TravelsWithBaby.com where you can get free trip planning resources!
Would you like to win a signed copy of Travels with Baby: The Ultimate Guide for Planning Trips with Babies, Toddlers, and Preschool-Age Children?
To enter, share one of your favorite travel moments with your child (at any age or stage). You needn’t have traveled far, and perhaps the moment was quite simple—sometimes the best ones are. You might consider what made the moment special to you? What did you learn or appreciate in that moment? Was it something your child taught you?
One winner will be chosen at random.
This giveaway is open to US residents.
This contest will close on January 7, 12 midnight CST.
*Congrats to Sandy (nonblogger)!* Whoops, I couldn’t get in touch with Sandy! Rather, she didn’t return my email. So the new winner is Erin!
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28 December 2008, 4:13 pm
As a nonparent, I’m really surprised! From casual observation, I had no idea that traveling with kids could be anything other than a nightmare.
What a great giveaway for parents who want to get out and about!
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28 December 2008, 5:32 pm
Having just taken our first {2nd, 3rd, and 4th} flight with our almost 7 month old recently, I can say that it is possible to have a good experience doing so. I had lots of tips to work with and was so relieved to discover that she was a happy flier! She slept during takeoffs and landings, didn’t fuss hardly at all, at was so curious about everything going on around her that she didn’t seem the least bit worried about anything at all.
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28 December 2008, 9:29 pm
When I was little and riding in the car I always got car sick when I would read or color. It was terrible. I tell my niece that if you start feeling car sick, look out the window. Thanks for the giveaway!
29 December 2008, 1:31 am
I only have a three month old so I haven’t really had may opportunities for travel–but I am going to be traveling to Hawaii and Boston for weddings this summer! Anyhow, our best travel moment has to be our 1.5 hour car ride to the grandparents for Christmas. He was a complete angel so he made what could have been a stressful trip a relaxing ride!
29 December 2008, 1:32 am
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29 December 2008, 4:38 am
My best travel moment with my son was on a plane when he fell asleep. He had never done anything like that before (he was not a good sleeper!), so we were thrilled that the hum of the plane (or something!) lulled him to sleep.
29 December 2008, 6:23 am
We travel inter-island a lot! My son was just a few months old and it was his sleepy time and he just screamed and screamed and screamed. We had very understanding passengers. Thank goodness he stopped once we boarded the plane. It was quite stressful to say the least. We learned a lot that day ~ make sure you get a good nap!
29 December 2008, 12:28 pm
The first and only time so far that we have traveled with my son is to my mother’s house on Christmas Eve. We stayed the night. I was nervous because it’s been a while since a baby has been in the house so I was nervous as to how everyone might handle being woken up randomly during the night. I packed everything but the kitchen sink so I was very prepared. My son ended up sleeping pretty good considering he’d never slept in a playpen before. Thanks for the chance.
29 December 2008, 1:03 pm
I took my then 6 yr old to disney it was a 10 drive,of course we heard are we there yet so many times that we made a game of it,what started out as a nightmare became a very silly little game that she enjoyed an it made the drive not so bad after all
29 December 2008, 5:10 pm
Our travels lead us to the mall. Not very far but memorable indeed. Little Mikey has one of those faces that makes everyone want to come up and say hi…. With Mikey that can be a good or a bad thing depending on what he thinks about you. We were looking at a rack of clothing towards the front door of the store. All of a sudden a rather large woman walks in. Mikey runs up to her (keeping his distance of course) and says “WHOA MOM, THAT LADY IS PUMPED UP!”
Little ones say the darndest things.
29 December 2008, 7:27 pm
I have a 3 month old so we havn’t traveled to far yet, but are planning a trip to Florida from New York in a few months. So far riding in the car for short periods of time have been great since the motion of the car puts my daughter right to sleep!
29 December 2008, 8:14 pm
When my seven year old daughter saw Old Faithful for the first time last May.
29 December 2008, 8:30 pm
I think my kids are less whiney than my husband and love the car travels- singing in the car and talking about what if…but I guess when we went to see the Oklahoma Memorial together- the fact they knew from talking what it was- its hard to describe but that is something that really amazed and took our breath away-
29 December 2008, 8:45 pm
going to italy with my sons when they graduated from college
29 December 2008, 9:55 pm
My favorite story is the first time I took my son on a plane he was 5 months old. He cried the entire plane ride home and so loudly that a priest plugged his ears. There was nothing at all I could do.
29 December 2008, 11:23 pm
when my kids were little I loved having them in a backpack and hearing their happy voices as they saw interesting things
29 December 2008, 11:24 pm
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30 December 2008, 3:52 am
My favorite travel moment with family occurred in May of 2008 when my daughter (14 months) said her first word - “boat”. We were vacationing on an island and it thrilled my husband that she learned “boat” while were were visiting his most favorite place in the world (the San Juan Islands) It revealed to me that my husband (though he doesn’t always show it) delights seeing our children grow and experience with world with us.
Thanks for giving me the chance to remember this trip.
Amy B.
30 December 2008, 4:34 am
I had so much fun going to Muir Woods Nat’l. Monument with my husband, two-year-old, and 1 month-old this autumn, but my favorite part was when my two-year-old exclaimed ecstactically over the ‘ocean’, which was the stream going through the woods, and which was verrrry low at that time of year! We went to Muir Beach, too, so she did get to see the REAL ocean!
30 December 2008, 4:45 am
My son always has his face buried in a handheld
video game.
30 December 2008, 11:01 am
We took my son to WDW awhile ago. I thought he wasn’t having a good time, but as soon as we got home all I heard about was Winnie Pooh this…Winnie Pooh that. Pooh bear made quite an impression of my little guy at the time.
30 December 2008, 3:47 pm
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30 December 2008, 3:52 pm
Once on a plane, while he was sleeping peacefully, my hubby & I gazed over at him w/sappy looks like ‘awww, we are SO lucky…’ then he POPS both his eyes open at us - and is wide awake the rest of the dadgum flight.
30 December 2008, 3:53 pm
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30 December 2008, 3:58 pm
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30 December 2008, 4:39 pm
My oldest has always been a great traveller. We recently had a wonderful vacation to Gulf Shores. It was great because we stayed in one place, with plenty of room, and kept a slow, simple schedule. We haven’t traveled with the new baby yet.
31 December 2008, 6:28 am
We have only one child - a 4 month old. When he was 2 months old, we traveled from our home in Utah to San Diego and then 1 week later went to Chicago, both on plane. Our son was wonderful - on the flight home from Chicago the man behind us even complemented us!
31 December 2008, 6:54 am
I traveled to Europe in 2003 with my ten year old daughter and she had a wonderful time seeing all the old world history.
31 December 2008, 8:11 pm
My very special travel moments with my kids that I’ve noticed is: They wont poop during travel, but the moment they reach the destination, they’ll go numerous times. I don’t know how this happened but I’ve noticed it since they were a year old. I LOVE it! And honestly I still cannot believe it.
I noticed it with the second child too and well I’m just jolly pleased.
31 December 2008, 11:28 pm
My best travel moment was while driving thru Ann Arbor MI my son tells me he sees a hotel with no wings - turns out he spotted the Goodyear blimp!!!! I laughed so hard.
02 January 2009, 10:25 pm
I took my grandson to Italy - It was an amazing trip and he was a wonderful traveling companion - He was eight at the time!
05 January 2009, 3:22 am
I’ve traveled quite a bit with my two daughters. Recently my 4 year and I took a flight together. We got upgraded to first class and she was absolutely intrigued with the warm cloth to was her fingers! Her enjoyment of the little things made the flight even more enjoyable.
05 January 2009, 3:24 am
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05 January 2009, 4:30 am
We took our three children cross country for two weeks to YellowStone National Park as well as the Badlands of South Dakota
05 January 2009, 6:16 am
My favorite memory is the first time my kids saw the beach and Ocean at Grand Isle, LA.
05 January 2009, 3:36 pm
My 4 year old grand daughter has seen me practice Reiki - we were on the bus when she saw an older woman come on the bus, looking very fatigued - my grand daughter asked the woman if she would like her to do Reiki on her. The woman had no idea what she was talking about but said ‘yes’. When she was through the woman looked 100% more relaxed and profusely thanked my grand daughter. The importance of human touch?
05 January 2009, 11:07 pm
We had a family reunion in Kauai and the little ones had the best time when we were anchored and held them so that they could ride the waves.
06 January 2009, 2:57 am
It was really special taking my son to the beach for the first time when he was 14 months old.
06 January 2009, 9:05 am
Since our little girl isn’t here yet, my favorite travel memory “with her” is the trip we took to Northern California for a friend’s wedding this summer. It was my first chance to share my pregnancy with some of my dearest friends. It was also fortuitously the first weekend that my morning sickness started to ease up, so I could enjoy all the yummy food they had to offer! But we will really be traveling with baby this coming summer, when we take her to meet both sets of grandparents, so we could really use this book!
06 January 2009, 3:28 pm
One summer my husband bought a boat & commercial fished. Our house was about 100 miles inland, so he lived in a travel trailer that summer and our first born, who was just learning to walk and I would drive to the coast every Friday after work to spend the weekend. She loved the ocean & we had so much fun that summer!
07 January 2009, 5:37 am
The first time we flew - repeated every other time - he was about one and the wonder in him rekindled the wonder and love I have for flying.
07 January 2009, 2:11 pm
My best moment was when I took my son (who was 4 months at the time) on a plane to see my Aunt who was dying of ovarian cancer. The flight was so awful there and back. We were flying out of O’hare in the middle of winter and our flight was delayed hours. Not only that, but I was breastfeeding still and there is no private areas for breastfeeding moms. I have to say it was not the best experience on the plane, but it was worth it in the end, when my Aunt got to meet my son for the first time.
07 January 2009, 11:55 pm
One of my favorite travel moments was when my friend’s child saw the Grand Canyon for the first time and was so excited.
08 January 2009, 2:36 am
I think it’s best to go on long trips/ drives after 8 pm ~so the kids sleep the whole way!
08 January 2009, 3:26 am
My children has always traveled well since they were babies…we always pack lots of stuff to do to make the time go by fast!
08 January 2009, 5:02 am
I remember traveling to Colorado with my daughter.
08 January 2009, 5:04 am
I am following Shelly Rivoli
08 January 2009, 5:05 am
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08 January 2009, 5:39 am
We were taking a 11+-hour roadtrip to bring my sister home from college, and my baby boy suddenly learned how to play peekaboo, lifting up a blanket in front of his face and snatching it down. So cute!
08 January 2009, 5:41 am
it’s 11:40 CST by my clock, but my comment is showing 5:39…I promise, it’s still the 7th!