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| Baby wearing in Tokyo |
I thought I would do a quick post on travelling with a baby in Tokyo. (If you are looking for an excellent description of having a baby in Japan and great tips on where to go or how to get around go
here. I asked questions and kept this blog in mind on most days!)
Most of the locals seemed to baby wear or use little strollers to get around. Travel wise we took a giant double pram and a front wearing baby carrier.
Japan had surprizingly good baby facilities! Considering that their birthrate is so low and that they sell more adult nappies than baby ones.
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| Most ladies toilets I went into had stalls with baby seats, so baby could watch you pee- such a great idea |
On the first day, I think, Archer struggled with the sudden change in climate. Back home in Brisbane it was still coolish and our first day in Tokyo was quite hot. So from then on we had icepacks and a bottle of water for Arch and that seemed to really help.
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| We took this massive double pram, which seemed silly until both of them fell asleep in it at the same time, then it seemed like the best idea ever |
The other unique issue Arch faced in Japan was that he got his very first tooth. This was where the panadol we brought came in handy. And the teething toy we brought with us too.
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| This is one of the nursing rooms I used to feed Arch, they have special nursing rooms that then have a curtain you can pull across for super duper privacy. I did feed out and about in the streets too, I had Rhys hold up a wrap or blanket - thought it best to be extra discrete in a foreign country that had rooms like this! |
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| More baby wearing - he did reposition him after this pic! |
Arch is my routine free baby. Immy was a much more predictable baby, we never had a strict routine but I could usually predict when she would nap, for how long and the number of naps she would have in a day. I think Archer's randomness worked well for travel. He never got upset for missing a nap, for example.
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| We became human feeding chairs |
He did a pretty good job with rolling with the punches. We have never been strict routine parents. Immy naturally fell into her routine!
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| Having an apartment with an outside area was great for soothing him, he loved being out on the balcony |
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| here we are at about 5am :) |
When we went to Hawaii with Immy in 2012 I remembering speaking to a few Americans who were there on holidays from the main land and they all seemed to ask us "So where are the grandparents?" to which we would laugh and say "back home in Australia" and then they would look at us like we were MAD. And now I know why! Having my mum come with us was awesome. We had at least 2 meals kiddie free and at least 2 where we only took Immy along with us. Mum took Arch when he was cranky. Allowed us to go on rides with just Immy at Disneyland. She fed him, she bounced him, she carried him in the baby carrier. She was amazing.
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| His "I just got a tooth" face |
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| asleep in his pram |
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| travelling on his Nanni |
I bought some great baby stuff too. An awesome looking first toothbrush, some spoons that have small baby mouth sized ends with really long handles (I've used them and they are so good!) I also bought him a sippy cup and some baby food. He hated the Japanese baby food. But it was by Kewpie! Imogen has always LOVED Kewpie Mayo so I thought Arch would love the baby food. Wrong.
