Hi all! I'm still on the unisom. I have board meetings next week and my entire week including this coming weekend is going to be insane. I don't want to be throwing up, out of the country, super busy, etc, during this time so I've decided to wean myself off the unisom after I return from my big work stuff.
About travel, everyone handles it differently. But what works for Poppy works really well for many of my friends (I'm in an industry where we travel constantly). DH has a super flexible job, which gave us options. I planned on doing what Poppy is doing, but right before my first trip, DS was starting to categorically reject the bottle. He'd go without it for long periods of time, then nurse all night (the dreaded reverse cycling) and although I'm sure we could have resolved it eventually, time was not on our side with the trip looming so we gritted our teeth and bought two, extra, very expensive last minute plane tickets to my destination for that first trip.
It was supposed to be just for that first trip but DH and DS basically had a huge adventure in a new city. I worked without worrying too much about them and they had a ton of fun. When we got home we still felt like it had really worked, so they just started coming with me on trips! I definitely felt strange at first, like maybe I looked like one of those crazy moms who can't bear to be separated

but it wasn't really that so much as it was just that it worked all around. The ONE drawback is that it is hugely expensive. We definitely take fewer "real" vacations because of all the plane tickets we're buying for DH / DS. But, the plus side is my kiddo has been to almost every state, is a real veteran traveler, and I think there's value for all of us. Ask me again when we have two kids to contend with, though. You may find my answer has changed!
Anyway, if DH did not have the flexibility, I think I would do just what Poppy does. My friends who do it a lot say there is major comfort in having a routine, in knowing your partner is a true equal parent, and while BFing makes it harder, it is also, people say, a very tangible way to feel very closely connected even if thousands of miles apart. If you're not doing it, you might look at someone else and say "how can she do that?" but when you have to do it, you do it, and you realize that you can do it, that everyone is fine, in fact everyone thrives, and then you're home before you know it. From the times I have traveled solo, I can tell you, know what TSA's rules are about breastmilk. Why? Because TSA does not know its own rules. Don't dump that liquid gold! You don't have to, even if TSA says otherwise at the check point. Take a print out of their rules, and be nice, but just say "let me show you what the rules say so you know why I'm insisting I don't have to dump this." ay yi yi...
All that said, there's also nothing wrong with feeling like you don't want to travel once you have the little one. A few of my friends (I'm in a high travel industry!) hated the separation. Some took new jobs with no / less travel, others are SAHMs now. But if you can do it, I think travel is fantastic, solo or as a family. There's something renewing in traveling (solo or with the fam) and renewal is so valuable for a sleepy new mom!