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7 Tested Hacks for a More Relaxing Travel Experience with Your Baby
Traveling with a child is a completely different kind of traveling. Period. My husband and are pretty well-traveled people, but we were complete novices when it came to our first flights with our baby. We flew with him across the Atlantic for a month-long trip to visit family…and it was agonizing.
We’d been told by other new parents who’d flown recently that traveling was surprisingly easy for them — that the airport workers and security had given them the red carpet treatment. I think this got our hopes up, making the reality that much more painful. Avoid unnecessary misery by learning from our mistakes the first go-around.
Babies and airports
The first thing I’ll address is this: the idea that people at the airport let you cut in front of everyone else if you have a child is not a universal truth. Therefore, I wouldn’t expect it. In fact, expect the worst and you’ll be able to better handle any and all of the struggles that took us off guard.
We tried to plan well. We made sure to feed him in the car so he could easily fall asleep during the journey to the airport. We brought all the soothers and bibs we could fit into the diaper bag. We envisioned a reasonably rough time, but an…
