Posts Tagged ‘flight toddler’
Surviving Early Morning Flights With A Baby, Toddler, Or Young Child…
Sun Comes Up, It's Travel-Day Morning
I was definitely dreading it, our first flight with baby. Not only had I read horror story after horror story about how she was going to scream the entire time and everyone would be shooting daggers at us, but I also had to drag my sweetly sleeping baby out of her crib a solid 5 hours earlier than I usually would!
Booking a flight at 7:30 made sense at the time, we were always up then anyway. It was only after I had paid for everything that it occured to me we had to be at the airport 3 hours before that, therefore leaving the house 45 minutes before that! We had to get up at what time? Was there any point in even going to bed?
Ville de Québec avec un bébé (Québec City With Baby)
With every trip we take with our daughter, I get less and less concerned about how she’ll handle the journey, and how to keep her occupied en route. This was trip number 6 for her, and at 3.5-years-old, she’s a great little traveler. Because I was a big chicken (and thankfully I was because that inspired this site), her first trip was at 11mos. Our little bub made us a family of four, and now at 4mos has 2 trips under his (elasticized) belt – with many more to come!
Why Quebec City? Well lots of reasons really. I haven’t seen much of this beautiful country of mine… at just over 2mos. postpartum, I wasn’t terribly eager to hit a beach… and I’ve been totally jonesing for Europe, but that’s just not in the cards right now… I’ve always heard that Quebec City is a little slice of Paris here in Canada, and now I know it’s true.
A beautiful doorstep in Vieux Quebec
Flying With Twin Infants…
Just received an email from Jodie who will be flying from Edmonton to Maui (lucky!) with her family this March…
Just wondering if you have any articles or information about flying with twins? My husband and I with our three children are flying from Edmonton, AB to Maui in March. Our daughter will have just turned 4 and our twin boys will be 22 months. We have found the airlines so far are difficult when it comes to two infants…
Luckily, I just received a great article from Julie Cole (one of the founders of Mabel’s Labels) about flying with her brood of 5 – with another on the way! Julie’s funny and helpful article is called Hell In The Skies…
Don’t let the title scare you off – Julie’s got lots of great tips and I have a one more for Jodie as well…
I’m guessing the airlines are being difficult because you’ll be having 2 lap infants instead of one, and although 22-month-olds are technically still infants, they’re a lot bigger and more challenging to manage on your lap for a long flight. My suggestion is to try to purchase at least one seat for your twins, in hopes that you’ll snag a spare once you board. My daughter was 23 months when we snuck in one last “free” flight for her, and I would have paid any amount of money mid-flight to get her squirming, yelling, uncomfortable “little” self off of my lap!
I wish you the very best of luck, Jodie, on your journeys – and the most amazing vacation to Hawaii with your family!
ps – if anyone has any more tips for Jodie, please post them in the comments – thanks!
