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Airline Travel Tips for Flying With Kids
I also don’t have much of a problem with Holtzman’s advice to keep your seatbelt on (tip 5). And although I think that her tip to play attention to the safety announcements (4) is a touch alarmist, it probably isn’t a bad idea.
If you are looking for even more alarming tips – I mean she only numbers seven of them, tip six is about remembering to put on your oxygen mask first. I’ve flown hundreds of times and I have never needed my oxygen mask (knocking wood like crazy). Tip seven is not to panic. That applies to everything in parenting. I guess that these are safety tips, but still the whole article makes me kind of paranoid. I really don’t think I’d be giving this lady a hard time if it weren’t for the first paragraph.
In the introductory paragraph Holtzman quotes someone that suggest packing plenty of things to keep your children busy in your carry-on. I couldn’t agree more with that, but this same paragraph leads me to the most upsetting thing is the article. The quote suggests that besides diapers and medicine your carry-on necessities include formula and breast milk. La leche would go ballistic. I don’t mean to get all of the breast feedinfg moms all riled up again, but what the hell is wrong with just carrying the milk in your body?
This whole thing is making me crazy. I’m flying to Florida in two weeks. I think I’ll just leave my kids at home.
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Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amIf the kid is safely in his or her car seat and you are safely in your seat with your seat belt on, it’s really hard to breastfeed your kid. For our trip, my daughter had some of a bottle for the trips up and down. Once we had leveled out she could drink “straight from the tap.”
They aren’t strict about having formula/milk with you as long as you have the kid with you.
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/children/formula.shtm
Have a great trip!
RachelZ commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amI was able to take 2 full, 8-oz bottles on the plane with me. They were in the diaper bag and we got through security with no problem at all. The rules are a teeny bit relaxed when you’re traveling with a baby, since they didn’t ding my huge tube of butt paste, either. They did steal my extra water, though. Whores.
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amPersonally, I’m thinking that if you’re NOT exclusively breastfeeding, then formula or milk definitely does qualify as a necessity…
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amUm… about the breast milk comment. I’d love to leave it in my body and have my baby drink it, Unfortunately, he sucks so hard he gave me cracked nipples, and then proceeded to suck blood out of my left tit by day 5! After the pediatrician visit to rule out the mouthful of blood coming from him, I bought a pump and have not looked back (too wistfully). I’m taking a 5 hour flight this weekend with a 3 month old in tow, and I will have to pump on the flight. So not only will I have to deal with TSA and the 3 oz rule vs. the breast milk rule, I will need to expose airline passengers to the hidden world of brest pumping – and we all know how tolerant of breast milk issues other non-lactating passengers are.
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