Hotel Cozumel and babies?
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I presume it all turned out fine?
I'm quite certain all the milk in Cozumel is pasteurized. For one thing, pasteurization extends shelf life a bit, and since there aren't any big dairy herds nearby milk gets shipped in. I also saw ultra-pasteurized milk on the shelves in Chedraui if one is super-paranoid.
FWIW, pasteurization has nothing to do with tummy trouble. It's intended to kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis. I really have no wish to contract tuberculosis, but that wouldn't stop me from drinking unpasteurized milk or eating cheese made from it, no matter what the USDA says. The risk of contracting TB from milk is trivial. I'm much more likely to catch it at work in New Hampshire.
More on-topic, I wouldn't have let my parents watch my kids at that age. I did once let a friend watch my daughter when she was about a year old, but that friend was the director of the pediatric ICU.
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To follow up then, would you have:
A) Taken such a young child on the trip with you?
B) Not taken the trip at all and waited until the child was older to be left in someone else's care back home?
C) Not taken the trip at that time, but wait and take the child with you when he/she was a few years older?
or D) Some other option I haven't mentioned?
Absolutely. We traveled with both our kids from when they were a few months old. By the time my son was 3, he'd been to England twice, Canada, and Mexico as well as all over the US. He traveled well. My daughter never made it beyond 16 months old, but she went all over the US with us. Neither one was a fussy kid. If they had been, I wouldn't have subjected them, myself, and everyone else to the plane rides.
However, we took our kids everywhere with us once at our destination. If we couldn't take them, we didn't go. There's a reason we went without diving for almost 15 years! If the trip was for a conference that I attended, my wife would watch the kid or vice-versa. When my son was under 2, we took him to le Gavroche and numerous similar places. If a restaurant had minded our having a young child, we would have gone elsewhere, but nobody ever objected and typically no other diners even noticed. Museums, zoos, and shopping all go fine with kids. Apart from diving, there's not that much we would have done without them in the first place, and the diving could wait.
As I understand your question, our approach was a combination. We never hesitated to travel with our children but sometimes we did things a little (but not much) differently from what we might have without them. That means that, instead of dive trips, we went to other destinations. I mean, I know you CAN dive in Montreal, but I don't want to!
My wife and I were both born into military families and traveled all our lives. Sometimes there's just no choice (for example, if the family is moving to France, you travel with them). Sometimes it's just dumb not to take the opportunity to see or do things with your kids when you have the chance ("do we HAVE to go to the Louvre this weekend? Can't we stay home?")
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