Infants and truck campers

[Cummins07]

Its just about time for us to start camping again for the year, now we have a 3 month old little camper with us. Just wondering if any of you have experience camping with babies in your TC and what kind of sleeping arrangements worked best for the little one? thanks

[kalynzoo]

Wow, you bring back memories. About 40 years ago my young son was going to Cub Scout Camp, and we wanted to join him, but we had a less than year old infant. We borrowed a neighbor's Cabover and drove the 20 miles to the camp and stayed for a wonderful weekend. We purchased our first RV, a Class C, for our summer vacation that year, and we've been RV vacationing ever since.
Happy Trails.

[BigBlockFord]

Ah, congrats to you & your family!

At the end of the day, the TC sleeping situation will depend heavily upon the at home sleeping situation... In our case, we are 'co-sleepers'- the kiddo is either between DW & I, or on the slide of DW. This works great in the TC too since we also sleep on a queen @ home. One thing that helps a ton is building a small kid spot with open cell foam between the cabinets in the cabover. The little one is pretty contained- no chance of rolling away.

If co-sleeping isn't for you and your partner, we also use a bed rail on the dinette bed for older brother. Works great & relatively cheap. Think we got it for $10 at a garage sale.

These little buggers are a kick and are even more fun @ camp. My son had his first camp trip at 3 weeks of age; his sister had to wait a bit longer, six months.

BBF