[blparent] traveling with 10 month old

[Jessica Pitzer]

On this same token, has anyone traveled with a 13 month old, a guide
dog on an airplane?
I'm traveling in about 3 and a half weeks from florida to washington
state on alaska airlines. I'll have my fiancee with me but he being
blind and partially deaf I have to do a lot of the work. Any tips,
we're taking an infant carseat on the plane hopefully, if it'll fit to
let him sleep in, but not sure what else really to do for everyones
sanity. its a 6 and a half hour non stop flight. I'm thinking i'll
probably take the baby some bottles since he still gets bottles and
some regular snacks, too, but I'm praying security doesn't take the
bottles, and just not sure what else to try to not have him scream teh
whole time, lol.
Thanks guys.
Jessica

On 11/7/12, Erin Rumer <erinrumer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Christopher,
>
> Traveling on a train like that is pretty nice as far as forms of
> transportation go because you can get up and move around as needed.  The
> bathroom might have a changing table in it that folds down from the wall
> like air planes have now but even if it doesn't, it's easy enough to either
> just put something down across some chairs and change your baby that way or
> if it's not a poopy diaper you can place baby on your lap and change them
> that way.  Just whatever you're comfortable with.  Baby should be pretty
> happy in the carrier for a while especially if you're able to walk around
> with them or at least stand-up and rock and bounce them a bit.  If you have
> an iPad or iPhone I'd bring that for entertainment purposes since there are
> so many awesome aps for young ones now.  Other favorite toys are also
> helpful that are easy to clean since baby will probably drop them from time
> to time on the floor.  As far as feeding goes, I'd go with those squeeze
> pouches and if you're baby hasn't eaten from those yet, do some trial runs
> before your trip to get them used to it and you'll do great.  Otherwise,
> you
> could always go to the food car and team-up with your spouse to feed baby
> the good old fashion way.  Ikea sells an awesome bib that is like a whole
> shirt that Velcro's onto them and protects their whole front and arms.
> It's
> something worth investing the $5 in so you can just take it off at the end
> of a meal, throw it in a plastic bag and have a clean baby for your trip.
> Otherwise, just have some spare clothes to change baby into.
>
> Hope this all helps and have a wonderful and safe trip.
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
> christopher
> Reagan
> Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 11:53 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: [blparent] traveling with 10 month old
>
> Good afternoon all:
>
> I have a question about traveling on trains with a 10 month old?  Jodie and
> I are going to be in the process of going to her mother's in NJ for her
> grandmothers birthday: but we've never traveled in Amtrak/nj transit trains
> with a baby so any tips that you can give would be appreciated?  For
> example, will she be okay in the baby pouch for about 6 hours?  What's the
> best way to feed her?  She's on baby food and we're not sure what to do as
> far as that goes.  How do we change her if we half to in transit?  Forgive
> all the questions but being a first time parent and traveling is gonna be
> challenging so any tips would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions and anything I may've left you can also bring up
> as well.
>
> Take care all and have a great day
>
> Christopher Reagan
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