Since baby girl isn't actually born yet, and the trip I'm talking about is not until September, I hope this isn't too hypothetical a question. It's my first time posting here and I'd love to hear from experienced breast-feeding mamas about this. My basic question: did you go on any trips when your baby was young that took you away for a night or two, and if so, what was your experience?
So here's the background: baby girl is due June 18, and I plan to breastfeed her for a year at the very minimum. I'll be nursing her without any bottles for the first four weeks or so, with an occasional bottle of pumped breast milk thrown in after that to get her ready for my return to work. She will be cosleeping in the Arm's Reach co-sleeper next to me for as long as she fits in it for easy night nursing.
Once I go back to work at 12 weeks (my job only offers the FMLA standard and it's mostly unpaid, so I have no choice but to go back that soon) I plan to pump in my office to keep my supply up and provide milk for during the day (my mother will be caring for her and giving her the bottles of breast milk), but to nurse her myself whenever I'm home, at night, on weekends, mornings, etc.
Anyway, my husband wants to plan a romantic 2 or 3-night getaway for our 3rd wedding anniversary in September to the same little bed and breakfast a few hours drive away where we went for our 2nd anniversary and started trying to conceive (it worked the first month!). He'd like it to be just the two of us, and to leave baby with her grandparents. I'd bring a pump, of course, and leave plenty of expressed breast milk. Baby would be about 3 months old at this point.
Obviously, this is no crisis and is still quite hypothetical--we do have to book it in advance but if I get to that point and I just can't bear to be separated from her for a few nights, we'd take her along. And it's not as if I know yet what my milk supply will be like--though I don't want to do anything that will affect it!
But I just want to know if this is even possible/feasible/a good idea, and to hear from anyone who might have done something similar. My husband is really enthusiastic on the idea of us having a romantic getaway by ourselves to reconnect with each other and have a little romance, and I totally support that, but I just wonder if we might have to scale it back to say, ONE night... or take it a bit later, etc., to avoid endangering the breast milk supply. 3 months just seems a bit dicey...
So here's the background: baby girl is due June 18, and I plan to breastfeed her for a year at the very minimum. I'll be nursing her without any bottles for the first four weeks or so, with an occasional bottle of pumped breast milk thrown in after that to get her ready for my return to work. She will be cosleeping in the Arm's Reach co-sleeper next to me for as long as she fits in it for easy night nursing.
Once I go back to work at 12 weeks (my job only offers the FMLA standard and it's mostly unpaid, so I have no choice but to go back that soon) I plan to pump in my office to keep my supply up and provide milk for during the day (my mother will be caring for her and giving her the bottles of breast milk), but to nurse her myself whenever I'm home, at night, on weekends, mornings, etc.
Anyway, my husband wants to plan a romantic 2 or 3-night getaway for our 3rd wedding anniversary in September to the same little bed and breakfast a few hours drive away where we went for our 2nd anniversary and started trying to conceive (it worked the first month!). He'd like it to be just the two of us, and to leave baby with her grandparents. I'd bring a pump, of course, and leave plenty of expressed breast milk. Baby would be about 3 months old at this point.
Obviously, this is no crisis and is still quite hypothetical--we do have to book it in advance but if I get to that point and I just can't bear to be separated from her for a few nights, we'd take her along. And it's not as if I know yet what my milk supply will be like--though I don't want to do anything that will affect it!
But I just want to know if this is even possible/feasible/a good idea, and to hear from anyone who might have done something similar. My husband is really enthusiastic on the idea of us having a romantic getaway by ourselves to reconnect with each other and have a little romance, and I totally support that, but I just wonder if we might have to scale it back to say, ONE night... or take it a bit later, etc., to avoid endangering the breast milk supply. 3 months just seems a bit dicey...
