[blparent] traveling with 10 month old

Wed Nov 7 21:55:25 UTC 2012

Hello Jessica,

I have flown with my son a ton since he was 4 months old and I offer the
same suggestions to you that I did Christopher.  Just make sure that you
offer something to eat or drink during take-off or landing just like we do
with our dogs to help pop their ears.  They will not take your bottles from
you and just put them together in a clear zip lock bag to keep them together
for ease.  Depending on how much your son likes his car seat, he might have
nothing to do with sleeping in it if he's 13 months old.  At least my son
would have hated that so I had him sleep in my arms or in the carrier.  It's
less to have to lug onto the plain as well but it's what works for you
that's important.  Unless you buy an extra seat for that car seat to sit on,
there's no guarantee there will be an available spot for it and they may
need to take it anyways at the gate and check it for you.  Also, we try and
plan our flight around when our son has his nap or bed time anyway so he
hopefully will sleep most of the time but that's not always possible.  The
only additional suggestions I can think to offer is to get a new toy or two
and a couple new snacks for him to keep him happy and interested.

Happy travels,

Erin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jessica
Pitzer
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 1:05 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] traveling with 10 month old

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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