After dinner we had to prep the room for my son. He is an amazing sleeper. He goes to bed around 6:30pm normally and gets up around 6am. I had to be at work early and my husband has a long drive to his shop, so we're on an early schedule in our house. He generally sleeps through the entire night.
Back in march we had a major problem. I went out to Dallas to visit my dad with my son, just the two of us. Connor refused to sleep the entire 5-day trip. He would sleep for, maybe, 90 minutes at night then wake up screaming bloody murder for an hour straight. It was an awful trip as far as that was concerned. I was afraid he might do it again on this trip, although he's been a fantastic traveler all other times we've gone away.
So my mom and I devised a plan. We brought a cloth shower curtain, magnetic hooks, and Connor's Monkey blanket that he sleeps with every night. We created a divider wall between the beds and the pack n play. If my son sees someone in the room he wants to play instead of go to sleep. He had his own "room within a room."
Here's what it looked like:
Back in march we had a major problem. I went out to Dallas to visit my dad with my son, just the two of us. Connor refused to sleep the entire 5-day trip. He would sleep for, maybe, 90 minutes at night then wake up screaming bloody murder for an hour straight. It was an awful trip as far as that was concerned. I was afraid he might do it again on this trip, although he's been a fantastic traveler all other times we've gone away.
So my mom and I devised a plan. We brought a cloth shower curtain, magnetic hooks, and Connor's Monkey blanket that he sleeps with every night. We created a divider wall between the beds and the pack n play. If my son sees someone in the room he wants to play instead of go to sleep. He had his own "room within a room."
Here's what it looked like:
This plan worked perfectly. We went to sleep quickly. We even turned the TV so we could watch something while he slept.
Just before putting him down to sleep we gave him a bath. Last time we cruised I brought an inflatable Sesame Street tub with a suction hook. It worked great. I had planned to bring the same one along until my mom found a collapsible tub at BJ's (like Costco if you don't have them near you) the day before our trip.
It is a Summer Infant Newborn to Toddler Fold Away Tub. Pictured below.
It is a Summer Infant Newborn to Toddler Fold Away Tub. Pictured below.
I liked it better because I did not have to blow anything up! It folds in half. The downside is that it does take up a lot more room than the inflatable. On our fall cruise I will most likely bring the inflatable again because we have to fly in to Boston and I don't want to sacrifice precious luggage space! But because we drove to this cruise we were not as worried about space.
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