Missus and I are expecting a bundle of joy at or v.close to Christmas. She will give birth Spain where she is from and where all the arrangements have been made. She arrived there some weeks ago and I'm sailing over to the continent to and driving my car down to Spain to join her.
We think to drive over & back is in the end more practical than flying/car-hire because I'm bringing a lot of stuff over and there'll be even more to go back - I'm more comfortable driving a right-hooker vehicle as well. Some airlines are sticky about carrying a child less than a month old and clearly we wouldn't be able to bring even an 1/8th the stuff on a flight.
The journey back would be undertaken with the child aged approximately 2-3weeks old. My missus intends to feed the child herself and once feeding is established we kinda have to go. We'll give it a couple of days to make it up France and then take the Cherbourg-Rosslare ferry.
That's the plan anyway.
Trouble is that I've been told a horror story over the weekend about how risky it is to place a very young child in an infant car seat for more than an hour - apparently there is a risk that they stop breathing.
Obviously there'll be plenty of stopping during the trip, but not every hour. I've never heard this advice about child seats being associated with this sort of a risk.
What does anyone think about this? Has anyone undertaken a long journey like this one by car with a v.small child?
Of course the return journey with the three of us would be a lot longer and more stressful than getting there, but if I thought I was putting the child in any danger, I'd put them on a flight & drive the bags home by myself.
We think to drive over & back is in the end more practical than flying/car-hire because I'm bringing a lot of stuff over and there'll be even more to go back - I'm more comfortable driving a right-hooker vehicle as well. Some airlines are sticky about carrying a child less than a month old and clearly we wouldn't be able to bring even an 1/8th the stuff on a flight.
The journey back would be undertaken with the child aged approximately 2-3weeks old. My missus intends to feed the child herself and once feeding is established we kinda have to go. We'll give it a couple of days to make it up France and then take the Cherbourg-Rosslare ferry.
That's the plan anyway.
Trouble is that I've been told a horror story over the weekend about how risky it is to place a very young child in an infant car seat for more than an hour - apparently there is a risk that they stop breathing.
Obviously there'll be plenty of stopping during the trip, but not every hour. I've never heard this advice about child seats being associated with this sort of a risk.
What does anyone think about this? Has anyone undertaken a long journey like this one by car with a v.small child?
Of course the return journey with the three of us would be a lot longer and more stressful than getting there, but if I thought I was putting the child in any danger, I'd put them on a flight & drive the bags home by myself.