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Yea...check that fuckin' suitcase bitch! The number of carryons is not related to how special you think you are.
nigel99 568
QuoteQuotenot 6 people, two strollers (prams)
So a husband and wife pair shouldn't qualify as "expert travelers", just because they're flying together?
Sorry if i pissed in your cornflakes, but waiting for soccer mom to fish through her purse for everyone's boarding pass and arguing about the Costco barrel of lotion in hr carry on does mean they are not expert travelers and shouldn't be in my way...ok , and I don't really care about your cornflakes, it just seemed to be the polite thing to say
Has Shah hijacked your account?
Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.
Hi Lisa - I was wondering if there were any other tips you could share with me. I am a "seasoned traveler" but will soon be traveling with a 3 month old baby for the first time and would love to be able to learn from your experience.
I have never heard of the blowing in their ears - what, when, why?? How do you keep an infant entertained on a transatlantic flight? How do you prevent/stop incessant crying?
Like I said - I would really appreciate your advice!
Big thanks,
Nick
Hobbes: "How come we play 'War' and not 'Peace'?"
Calvin: "Too few role models."
I have never heard of the blowing in their ears - what, when, why?? How do you keep an infant entertained on a transatlantic flight? How do you prevent/stop incessant crying?
Like I said - I would really appreciate your advice!
Big thanks,
Nick
Hobbes: "How come we play 'War' and not 'Peace'?"
Calvin: "Too few role models."
oldwomanc6 60
Hi Nick,
Very often kids will cry constantly because their ears hurt. Babies and young kids can't equalize the pressure in their own ears, because they can't do the yawn/swallowing trick. Blowing in their ears often and repeatedly, especially when ascending/descending will help. Feeding (bottle or breast) or giving a pacifier helps, and when they get old enough, the sucker will do the job.
A bored child isn't happy, so plan lots of small things, short books, drawing supplies, short games. It's amazing how much time can be taken blowing up small balloons. As for keeping an infant happy, be prepared to hold it for the entire flight. If you are traveling with a baby and an older one, enlist the older one as "helper". Even a three-year-old will behave better if they think their job is to help "entertain" the baby. 
Plan your travel time carefully if possible. Short flights are better earlier in the morning when the likelihood of melt downs are less because they are fresh. Long flights work well in the middle of the night when maybe there is a chance that they will sleep. I got lucky coming back from Hawaii (10pm flight) when my 18 month old fell asleep in the car on the way to the airport, stayed asleep for the entire flight, and woke up as we were getting in the taxi. My six-year-old fell asleep shortly after take off and we woke her for landing so she could look out the window.
Hope that helps, and you have an uneventful flight
lisa
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Start out with how to DRIVE at airports, I understand many people don't go near one all that often...but read the signs, don't drive @ 5mph in a 35 zone, don't cross 3 lanes with no blinker, don't 'unload passengers' in the middle of the through way...
You've been walking 1/2 the day, please keep your shoes on and your feet off my the back of my headrest.
Twardo I agree with everything you said except these two. Unloading in the middle of the through way, cutting across three lanes weaving through stopped taxi's and buses IS how you drive at the airport. It's a shitty system, but it works.
And for the shoes, I travel with slip on loafers when I fly just for that reason. Slip on and off at security, no looking for a spot on one of the benches to tie your shoes. And you can bet when I get on that plane those shoes are coming off if that flight is more than an hour long. If someone's feet stink after just half a day in them then they need goldbond or something.
QuoteHi Lisa - I was wondering if there were any other tips you could share with me. I am a "seasoned traveler" but will soon be traveling with a 3 month old baby for the first time and would love to be able to learn from your experience.
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I've gotten the crying baby maybe once.
I'm a fat magnet. I usually get the Jabba The Hut sitting next to me with their rolls of fat bulging into my seat.
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Oh, yes. 'Been there with my first - at 3 months too. I think the mistake was allowing her to fall asleep before boarding - waking her up getting her out of the stroller to board unsettled her and nothing would put her back.QuoteHi Nick,
Very often kids will cry constantly because their ears hurt. Babies and young kids can't equalize the pressure in their own ears, because they can't do the yawn/swallowing trick. Blowing in their ears often and repeatedly, especially when ascending/descending will help. Feeding (bottle or breast) or giving a pacifier helps, and when they get old enough, the sucker will do the job.
A bored child isn't happy, so plan lots of small things, short books, drawing supplies, short games. It's amazing how much time can be taken blowing up small balloons. As for keeping an infant happy, be prepared to hold it for the entire flight. If you are traveling with a baby and an older one, enlist the older one as "helper". Even a three-year-old will behave better if they think their job is to help "entertain" the baby.
Plan your travel time carefully if possible. Short flights are better earlier in the morning when the likelihood of melt downs are less because they are fresh. Long flights work well in the middle of the night when maybe there is a chance that they will sleep. I got lucky coming back from Hawaii (10pm flight) when my 18 month old fell asleep in the car on the way to the airport, stayed asleep for the entire flight, and woke up as we were getting in the taxi. My six-year-old fell asleep shortly after take off and we woke her for landing so she could look out the window.
Hope that helps, and you have an uneventful flight
lisa
That was the only flight with problems though with both her and her sister. At 5 and 3 they've both done a number of long haul flights and absolutely love it - as long as they're kept entertained.
So a husband and wife pair shouldn't qualify as "expert travelers", just because they're flying together?
Sorry if i pissed in your cornflakes, but waiting for soccer mom to fish through her purse for everyone's boarding pass and arguing about the Costco barrel of lotion in hr carry on does mean they are not expert travelers and shouldn't be in my way...ok , and I don't really care about your cornflakes, it just seemed to be the polite thing to say