Tips on traveling with babies

[CA1900]

Leave your F**K TROPHY home!!!

Thank you.

 

[kingaira90]

Great info everyone. Well everyone who was being constructive! One other thing to add is they have ear plugs now that slow the pressure change in your ears. They make kids sizes too. They are called Ear Planes. They sell them at drug stores etc. Don't let sitting down on the plane be the first time you put them in your kids ear though, they tend to no like it the first few times. Try them a few times at home or in the car first.

My mom recently came up for our newest arrival. In the few days before the flight up she came down with a cold. She was mostly over the cold before the flight but was worried about the possible effects. I told her about Ear Planes, she bought them and followed the directions and had no trouble.

Feeding/drinking a take off and landing is great but depending on trip length and timing it might not work. A pacifier can work also, if your child uses one.
-kingaira90

 

[CCDiscoB]

...and don't ask for what this mom asked for on one of our flights, "Can you put Pepsi in this bottle?"

 

[pgcfii2002]

How about underneath the seat in front of you?

 

[PunchTheClown]

How about underneath the seat in front of you?

Growup you idiot! Nice Avatar by the way. I bet you couldn't even pay a woman that looked that good to even look at you. Unless she was your sister.

 

[NJAowner]

Some company makes a combination FAA approved "car" seat which converts into a stroller. The legs drop out of the bottom and the handles come out from the top of the back. One item then does the job of the plane set, car seat, and stroller. Less to lug around.

I will echo the others' posts. Buy a seat. Not only is it safer, but you have a place to put the little one when he/she falls asleep.

 

[MissKittyKat]

This really bugged me. Recently I was on a Northwest flight to Billings Montana. I sat in the last row window seat. ( my favorite place to sit, really).

The row ahead of me had 5 people in the row, 3 adults and 2 lap children. In realilty, the F/a's never reseated the people or said a word, if we ever lost oxygen, there where not even enough masks to ecomodate that row!

I know in my heart it was an unlikely situation, but I would have changed seats or helped out, but this is one thing I'm savvy too when flying. And this just happened on Air Wisconsin, it was a Canandair, flight and the F/a knew to change seats with the mother and lap child, and surely explained, there was not and extra mask in that seat but on the other side of the airplane!

Kudos, to the F/a looking out for that baby!

 

[skygod75]

It's Billings, MT. No one cares about what happens to us out here in the frontier country

 

[Hung Start]

Hey, I'm old school. But if you don't buy a seat for your child, and put them in a kiddy seat, you are a neglectful parent.

Hung

 

[Markm1811]

The airline also makes a difference

At a risk of upsetting anyone here. I also find the airline makes a difference in flying with infants. We fly UA to europe and the FA's on board do so much to help with our little one whereas when I fly my own carrier ( albeit Non Rev) the FAs have little or no empathy at all. In fact on a recent flight I watched a FA berate a mother who could not control her screaming less then one year old during the briefing and threatened to have her removed from the plane.Hardly the best way to start a longhaul flight.

I will however say that a seat is the best way to go but beware. I was on a KLM flight recently and they would not allow someones car seat on board as it was not rated for aviation use. ( I have never heard of that before) and I looked at ours which does say DOT/FAA rated for use in aviation.

Regards,
Midnight Brit.