Travel Baby

For many of us, air travel is part of our lives, as we go on holidays, business trips, visit friends or relatives. But for children, flying can be an adventure beyond imagination! Some love it, some hate it and others will be indifferent, as long as they are with their trusted parent.

In any case it is good to plan ahead and travel prepared otherwise even your 50 min short flight (or however long your flying) will feel like you are flying to the end of the world!

Tips for flying with your baby:

• Have plenty of fluid to give your baby during the flight and make sure that she is drinking or eating during take off and landing. That way you will automatically get her to ‘equalize’, that is adjust to the changes in air cabin pressure by swallowing.
• However, taking fluids on board is not necessarily that straight forward these days with heightened safety measures. Custom officials may ask you to open a milk carton/ bottle and sample the contents in front of their eyes – regardless of the fact that this may spoil the milk for your baby or leave you stuck with an open carton. You should definitely check with your airline what types of restrictions are currently in place before you pack your bags!
• If you are breast feeding then you are obviously not going to have any problems with taking extra fluids on board so if you are about to travel somewhere by plane it may well be worth delaying weaning your baby off your breast until after your trip. Read more…