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Re: Can you bring a baby to Asia? (gal on Travel isn't sure)
She worded the question poorly, but TBH, I'd probably have some reservations about taking a non-vaccinated child to Indonesia. Enough reservations to do a lot of research and possibly post something here and have a chat with Mrs. Hooi and Azure about it.
The real issue here is that just as Europe isn't a country, neither is Asia. Taking a baby to a country with close to the US' population in almost a tenth of the space where certain diseases we vaccinate against generally might still be prevalent would give me pause to look into the deets.
FTR, my only issue would be the vaccination thing. Once that kid has been shot up with everything I'll have no problem taking it anywhere.
I think we should give her some credit for thinking outside of the usual places people travel to with their precious "first world" babies.
Now jumping domestically.
Well that was a crazy couple of years.
Too many likes to count. I agree with you!
Wedding stuff.
I agree. I never really applied the "he won't remember it rule" when I went some place. I mean, technically, the kid's not going to remember much of this time in his life, but I still do things with him. The way I see it, travel is just a part of our life and will be something he's always just done. We don't do or see as much when we travel these days, but that doesn't bother me at all.
I agree. I really didn't read the post as "can babies be in Asia" at all. Other than the business class thing, I don't really see what the big deal is.
Unless someone DD'd a post that said "I've never had a vomiting baby, but that sounds so awesome," I don't even understand why Knitty is talking. Usually, even though she's annoying and inappropriate, I at least know what she's responding to.
And I have done both: left kids with the grandparents and taken an adult vacay, and brought baby along even though baby won't remember anything. To me, it depends on the type of trip. I'm glad we did what we did in each case. On our cruise, we wanted to relax and have time off in a way we couldn't do with kids there. When we've visited different cities in Europe, we wanted to experience the place, not just laze about sipping cocktails, and babies don't interfere with that. Also, while they aren't going to remember seeing the Eiffel Tower or whatever, they ARE taking in everything, and forming their ideas of what's normal, what's acceptable, etc. Though specific details will get lost in their memories, I don't think it's fair to say that babies get NOTHING out of travel.
Personally, I don't think you have to wait too long at all before there's a chance of kids remembering. While it's not 10 months, some of my first memories are of our cross-country roadtrip when I was 2. I recommend taking lots of photos, because looking through them often in the next few years actually kept those memories alive. I really only remember things that (I think) we have photos of, but I don't just remember what's in the photo.
For example, there's a picture of my sister and I in the Rocky Mountains, and I remember pulling over the car. I remember that my sister and I were fighting in the back seat when my parents insisted that we stop for a photo op. Somehow as a result of this fight, I'm pretty sure I'm not wearing shoes in the photo. And I remember being a little afraid of the drop-off behind us, even though I'm sure it was a safe distance from where we were sitting. Would I remember it without the photo? Probably not. But I do remember it, because everything going on before the photo isn't in the photo.
Sure, I don't remember a lot of the details, so going back to Rocky Mountain National Park this summer after 29 years was practically like seeing it for the first time, but I have flashes of memories from that trip, and things did make an impression on me.
Totally agree.
Now jumping domestically.
Well that was a crazy couple of years.
Yeah, we started traveling with ds when he was 2 months old, and will keep doing so with dd as well. I started traveling internationally at 2 years and while I may not remember those early trips I am happy my parents didn't just leave us at home all the time.
Saying that we have taken trips without him too. Sometimes you just need couple time
It's a boy! -- EDD 11.17.11
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