Desperate to travel and enjoy going out before baby comes, am I alone?

Question

Hey ladies,

I would like to start off that I feel extremely blessed and can't wait to meet our little one. However, I'm also aware (8 nieces and nephews) after the little one comes, your very much aching for time alone with your SO after a couple months even just to go out to a romantiv dinner. For my SO, this is the first grandchild on his side of the fam and he also has a very laid back attitude thinking we will be able to travel and go anywhere once the baby is born, won't change anything. He is aware I'll need to recover the 1st month after birth but then from there, he things no problem.

... Im fighting him on making sure we do like a long weekend exploring somewhere together before we have the baby. He says we are too busy but I feel we could make time and should. I've also mentioned that we need to try some new restaurants and his response is whats the rush?

Am I justified in feeling this way, anyone else going thru this with their partner?

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I have a friend who is in Thailand for a 9 day vacation with her hubby right now. She has a 2 year old and a 8 month old.

They are all taking a family trip to Jamaica later in the summer. This was just for her and her hubby.

Grandparents are keeping the children.

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Have him talk to someone who has recently had a baby. While newborns aren't that hard to take out to eat since they sleep a lot - going on vacations is not an easy task. There is a million things to pack and my son never slept as well in a hotel as at home so it wasn't much of a vacation. Our first trip to the beach was horrendous because it was nothing like the years we had gone before. "Vacations" become "trips" - you pretty much do the same stuff you do at home but in a different location. It's TOTALLY different. Do your best to get him to take you a few places just the two of you.

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We ate doing 3 trips before baby comes. Two cheap weekends and one week at a cottage on the beach. We will continue to travel with baby but it'll be very different. We'll likely do a trip without him when he's close to a year and trips with him mostly and even a long car trip so we can do the beach again next year.

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Yes, I'm having a beach holiday with a girlfriend next week and then my husband are doing a road trip through the Scottish Highlands in August. Aware our lives will change when the baby comes so want to make the most of the time we have before then. Enjoy your travels!

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We're doing a weekend getaway and a week long staycation (mid-summer by our backyard pool). Well likely continue to travel after the baby is born but with her.

I don't feel the need to go out to dinner any extra. We don't generally go out a ton anyways we are homebodies.

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My husband likes going out anytime we can. I have a niece & nephew and know it can be difficult going out with your kids so I made it a point to go do stuff before the baby is born. Especially since it's our first summer being married/together (we were long distance) so I want to enjoy it before the baby is born. We already flew to visit his parents, went to niagara falls, went to a hockey game in Philadelphia (his favorite team), spontaneously went to Boston, ma to go to chikfila & a aquarium, & went to the buffalo zoo. I still dont think it's enough but it's really hard to do stuff and save money for the baby/ a house.. We both have been working as much as we can before the baby is born.

Desperate to travel and enjoy going out before baby comes, am I alone?

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