• My husband and I took our baby on a trip to Europe, visiting London and Paris. • I wish we'd planned the itinerary around the baby a bit more and hadn't tried to do so much. • The chaos sometimes outweighed the fun, but I don't regret taking our 11-month-old on this trip.

When you're presented with two choices — 1. take your baby on a once-in-a-lifetime trip through Europe or 2. stay home and watch "Bluey" reruns — you obviously choose the former.

Sure, I've traveled out of the country several times … but doing it with a baby? That's an entirely different ballgame.

Ultimately, my husband and I decided it was a worthwhile trip (although if you had asked us mid-meltdown on the streets of Paris, we might have answered differently).

Here are the three big mistakes that made our trip

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