Babies at WDW

[Conservative Hippie]

Who has been to WDW w/ babies? Since I will have a 4-6 week old at my favorite time to be at Disney (Halloween), I am wondering about people taking their babies, in a stroller or in a baby carrier like a Baby Bjorn. What could you do with your baby in a carrier?

And I'm not saying that I'm planning on taking my 4-6 week old, but I'm not saying I definitely won't either...Hallowishes is going to be really hard to miss!

Also, how does the parent swap thing work?

 

[diznygirl]

I've been to both DL and WDW with both my babies. Take full advantage of the Baby Care centers in each park. It's a quiet place to feed and change. I did the carrier and the stroller - the carrier is great so they can see everything, the stroller is great for when they are napping. My babies at 4-6 weeks were still too small for a carrier tho.

Baby Swap works like this - tell the CM at the front of the line and they give you a pass. Now one parent can wait in line and go on the ride, and the other parent can sit someplace with baby. After getting off the ride, the other parent now can take the pass and go through the Fast Pass line to ride the ride.

Just be aware of the needs of the baby (feeding, napping, keeping out of the sun/heat, etc) and you should be fine.

 

[tiggersmom2]

I've been to both DL and WDW with both my babies. Take full advantage of the Baby Care centers in each park. It's a quiet place to feed and change. I did the carrier and the stroller - the carrier is great so they can see everything, the stroller is great for when they are napping. My babies at 4-6 weeks were still too small for a carrier tho.

Baby Swap works like this - tell the CM at the front of the line and they give you a pass. Now one parent can wait in line and go on the ride, and the other parent can sit someplace with baby. After getting off the ride, the other parent now can take the pass and go through the Fast Pass line to ride the ride.

Just be aware of the needs of the baby (feeding, napping, keeping out of the sun/heat, etc) and you should be fine.

Great post. I agree that a month old baby is going to be too small for a baby carrier.....best to just keep them in the stroller. I am introducing my newest addition to WDW in 2 months!!!! I can't wait.

 

[KristiKelly]

We took our 3rd at 12 weeks. It was sooo... easy. We used both the stroller and Baby Bjorn (we bought a new style - at the time- called Baby Bjorn Air, it is a light gray with holes in it = cooler). We rode all of rides with her in this, all without a weight limit.

If she was asleep in her stroller, we took it into the restaurants.

I think it's really a very easy age, as long as they're not colicky (sp?)

The Baby Care Centers are wonderful as well.

 

[Tink&SquirtsMom]

We took our 2nd at 6 weeks old. He was fine in the carrier (my dd would have been to small at that age though). It was great and he slept his way all through DL with us stopping at the BabyCare Centers to change diapies, etc. I'm not sure I would recommend it to everyone, but in that situation (me fighting ppd and dd age 2 really needing some fun with mommy after I got off a 5 month bedrest) it was the perfect thing.

 

[Tink&SquirtsMom]

Oops! Double Post. Sorry!!!