I know I’m not a parent, but I’m seeing some parents comment about how great it would be to take the baby and great it would possibly be for the child and so forth and maybe that’s great for them, but I can’t agree. 

As someone who was one of those babies traveling from an early age and pretty much the rest of their life, I’m gonna have to say the whole “child will benefit thing” has no weight. I started traveling from when I was 5-6 months old (still do to this day) and I and my family agree in hindsight it wasn’t worth it.

I have no memories of the beautiful places we went to and actually resented them when I got older for it because by then I’d suggest “let’s go to this place or that place” and they’d comment “oh we went already when you were a baby, don’t you remember?”. No, I don’t remember because I was a damn baby. The only thing babies care about that age is attention from their parents, warmth, comfort, sleeping, sustenance and excreting: all of which can be done in the comfort of their home or community. 

There’s also the fact that thanks to a particular misinformed movement prevalently running around we have formerly extinct/low occurring diseases flaring up again such as Measles whose primary targets and victims are -you guessed it- young infants. Not to mention the other slew of things you’ll be exposing to a a baby who doesn’t yet have a fully functioning immune system (yes, they shouldn’t be in a bubble and should have exposure, but within reason). 

Bundled with cost, general discomfort for everyone involved, and seemingly selfish motives - the cons outweigh the pro’s. Keep the kid at home or visit a park or your parents or something, it’s a better bet than Tuscany.