[Artemisia] camping with infants

[Allen Hall]

>> Freydis> ~who's mother camped with her at three weeks old, in the >month 
>> of APRIL.
> Rebecca replies:
> We took our 3-month-old to the first Estrella.  He cried all night because 
> he was cold and not in his regular bed and he was in unfamiliar 
> surroundings . . . He was unhappy, we were unhappy, the campers around us 
> were unhappy.  I do not recommend camping with an infant.  We also had a 
> 2-year-old who was just fine.

Corisande replies:
Alan and I took Jed camping with us at events when he was young.  We put him 
in a snowsuit at night for sleeping (yes, even at Uprising it can be darned 
cold at night :)) and he slept thru the night better than we did.  Alan kept 
checking him to see if he was warm enough, and he was just fine in his suit. 
Couldn't roll out of it or kick it off, like blankets.  I don't sleep with a 
kid in the bed with me, so he was in his travel playpen/bed.  It worked out 
well.