Adaptation. This is the keyword for a holiday as well. As children can sleep on the beach, mothers can relax at least on leave. Photo: Shutterstock
Before you became a mother, the holidays were about escape, quiet, sleep until late, maybe a book read on the beach or long evenings without any care. Today, luggage is more, greater care, and rest has become a promise that you are postponing. For many women, the holiday with the young child does not mean relaxation, but a different form – and often more intense – stress.
Routine changes. The place of sleep changes. Everything changes.
“In the first vacation with our one-year-old girl, I woke up every morning more tired than I was sleeping,” says Ana, 33 years old. “He didn't want to sleep in the travel cot, I didn't eat almost anything, and I felt guilty that I couldn't enjoy the vacation. I was in a beautiful place, but in my mind it was chaos.”
This story is not unique. The change of environment, program and rhythm brings with it an avalanche of stimuli for a child regardless of his age and a number of challenges for parents. Mothers, especially, feel intensely this tension between the desire for relaxation and the constant need to adapt to the needs of the child.
Care that takes no break neither sea nor mountain
The daily routine of a child – meal hours, sleep, play – is often the safety thread that keeps everything in balance. And the holiday, with all the good things it brings, comes with a change in this routine.
“The sleep program gets over your head, especially if you are staying in a room where you cannot make darkness completely at noon or where you can hear from the hall.
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