Would you take your baby camping with smokers?

I wouldn't take a 12 week old baby camping even if there were no smokers there.

Personally I think three months is too young to go camping. Like someone else said, too young to be roughing it. Unless you guys are all seasoned campers with tons of experience behind you, I don't think you will have the comfort level to be able to relax at all. Your baby will pick up on that, and you'll both be miserable. And I don't blame you for not wanting to be around a bunch of smokers for the weekend either. Yes you are outdoors so you can get away from smoke for the most part. But your relatives are less likely to wash their hands in between smoking and wanting to hold the baby in a situation without plumbing. Trust your mother's instinct and stay home with baby.

go away to smoke means they will keep a distance from the baby (not smoking in the car for example - go off to the riverbed/etc..) if your soooo caring for babies lungs how on earth do you get him in the car that you preheated in the garage for a cold winters morning or take him anywhere in town? its a toxic world out there - your making a mountain out a mole hill by selectively picking this out as the evil that threatens the baby and ignoring everything else.

No, and not just because of the smokers. I tried to go camping with my daughter when she was four months old. BIG, BIG mistake! Your baby is too young to be roughing it. Stay home and let your husband go hang with his family.

Why would you take a baby camping period? Stay home.

Honestly, you re being over protective and unreasonable. It is not like you are going to be stuck, with your baby in a closed tent without air circulation with five people smoking cigarettes, you know. You just do not want to go on this camping trip and are using their smoking habits as an excuse, I do believe. You will be outdoors. You can KINDLY ask people not to smoke near your three month old child. Or, if they do light up and you think they are too close, all you have to do is go for a stroll with your baby. Smokers are chastised quite a bit and are being kicked out of everywhere to light up these days. They know how people feel about second hand smoke, so it will be no surprise that you want to protect your daughter from smoke inhalation. And being in the great outdoors allows you plenty of fresh air, so do not fret about the smokers because there are ways to avoid the smoke. It is quite obvious that you just do not like his family. I suggest you begin to learn how to tolerate them because they are your husband's family, like it or not. With or without the smoking. TIme to grow a thicker skin and learn to at least get along with them when you are with them. EDIT: My god almighty. To those who say a baby should not be camping: Where were you during your history class, people? Aren't you aware that every single human being born in the beginning of time began their lives outdoors, camping out, sort of speak? How do you think generations of people survived living outside in caves and under make shift shelters. You know, those people had babies out there! Heavens to Mergatroid!! This girl clearly does not want to go camping and is not woman enough to say so and is using smoking as an excuse. For goodness sake, she will be OUTDOORS, not stuck in an underground shelter with smokers!! Get out your text books and see how our for fathers did it! What a joke these replies are.

if you want your baby exposed to all those bug bites, fire smoke, second-hand smoke, and possible bad weather.

well if you feel like they won't go away while they smoke then don't go. your baby shouldn't be around cigarette smoke especially considering how young she is. maybe just stay home and tell your husband to go alone and explain to him that it's not good for your child and you don't really feel like your family is going to make sure the cigarette smoke is away from her.

that is NOT a great idea at all cuz of second hand smoking which is where the other person is still breathing in the cigarrette smoke so that is totally not a good idea