Baby Sleep for Traveling

Nicole

Need some advice! I have a 4 month old little boy. We are trying to get back into a good sleep routine after the 4 month sleep regression hit us super hard. Baby is going down for bed around 8 and sleeping until 11 for a feed then sleeping again until about 7:30. We are going on vacation next weekend and will be driving about 4 hours out of town. Do we drive overnight during baby’s bedtime or do we drive first thing in the morning around 8 when baby first naps?

I think traveling while he sleeps during the night would be best but my concern is once we get to our destination around 1am, him waking up thinking it’s ready to party and ruining sleep for that night, making for a cranky baby while we are out on the water all day.

Concern with driving during the day is that he is still not loving the car seat all too much so that we would be soothing a screaming baby pretty often throughout the drive.