We'll be at DL Oct 1-5. DS will be 8 months while we're there. I was so nervous he wouldn't enjoy it, but hearing all these positive reviews from other moms of babies makes me so happy.
have you ever been there around that time? i heard its the gay days and that makes me a little nervous that it might be really crowded
my aunt took her son to DL when he was 4 DAYS OLD! hahaha i thought that was a little extreme...i could barely walk 4 days after giving birth! lol
wow we will be there practically the same time! we'll be there the 2nd-6th i believe
and yes its sooo great to hear all these mama's talking about how much their babies loved DL! everyone always told me i shouldnt take my son til he was 5 b/c he wouldnt enjoy it....i never believed that, and i think the earlier you get them started at DL the better
She's of the "why are those two men holding hands" generation. I'm so excited to go though. This is my fourth trip to DL, but DH has NEVER been. He has no idea what to expect, either. I got the planning dvd sent so I could show him what it was like, pulled out my maps of DL and DCA from 2003, showed him pictures from previous trips, etc. I don't think you really get it until you get there though. 
handy manny would be really cute...or if they had a wall-e costume that would be even cuter for him! he actually sat through the whole wall-e movie??! thats awesome! i havent even attempted taking my monster to a movie...maybe ill try it with that one though
I'm not so sure how it's going to be with gay days. Grandma is taking the entire family so that could get interesting.
It will be really nice though because it's my grandma, my mom and stepdad, both sisters, aunt, uncle, cousin and then my immediate family going. So, if dh and I want to go on rides, no ride switch necessary. We can just give ds to one of the grandmas, and off we go. We're doing a relocation cruise from Vancouver to LA for 3 days beforehand. I have no idea where we're staying though. I want to say the Quality Inn.
I dealt with more than that (though not the 6 days of labor that my 5'1", 100 lb malnourished MIL did with her 10+ pound kid in rural Korea! man I wish she had shared that with me BEFOREhand so I could have called her for moral support) and it was all caused by my midwives and WA law that restricted them and forced them to do stupid things, then later the hospital.
For me, I've had to separate the two, there's DS and there's the labor. I mean yeah, he was posterior and had his hands up like Superman, but it wasn't HIS fault that WA law with midwives causes them to flip out once you go beyond 40 weeks (we have long pregnancies on both sides...hubby himself was a 44 week baby...but that is incompatible with the malpractice insurance agreements with midwives 'round here and most OBs too), and it wasn't HIS fault that they didn't know his position. I remember feeling that it was a dance we were creating, but we kept getting cut in on by the professionals. So at the end, it was two separate things for me.
DS was my saving grace, the thing that got me through the aftermath of it all, but I'm not sure that *for me* it's related in the same way your feelings are with your guy.
I think it worked that way for my husband, though!
and of course my son was sick in the hospital for a week after that. ugh being pregnant 42 weeks was not fun! lol he was worth alllll of that though, and i would do it again in a second for him
im sorry to hear you had a bad experience too though...i just hope that doesnt mean all our childbirth experiences will be like that
