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Flying with an infant
shmokes:
What the? No you don't, lol. Or, at least, nobody has ever said anything of the sort to me, nor have I ever heard a parent told this on any flight.
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 11, 2011, 12:32:47 am ---What the? No you don't, lol. Or, at least, nobody has ever said anything of the sort to me, nor have I ever heard a parent told this on any flight.
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:dunno maybe they wanted to make me look like a fool!
flight attendant 1: ha ha look at that dude tryin' to hold on to that kid!
flight attendant 2: lol
Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 10, 2011, 03:34:20 pm ---As for entertainment . . . most of the advise so far is for older children. You can't really "entertain" an infant on a flight. You comfort her. It's not like you can just hand her a DS or some crayons. Have an aisle seat if possible so you can get up and walk laps up and down the aisle if she gets cranky.
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This particular "infant" is just under a year old.....so yeah, some "entertainment" is in order.
Obviously age appropriate stuff, but entertainment to occupy them non-the-less.
Hell, it's actually harder to keep a 1 year occupied than it is a 4 year old.
shmokes:
An almost one year old just can't be occupied much, in my experience. Small games, coloring book, movies and music on a small netbook would be entirely ineffective. They will not hold the child's attention or keep the child happy for even one minute. Infants need to be entertained, but the way of doing that is by, like, holding and rocking them, or talking to them, or bouncing them, or playing with them. They're just not old enough for most of the diversions that had been suggested in this thread.
HaRuMaN:
Well, the trip is over and she did great. As people disembarked the plane, the ones that sat near us commented on how great she did.
The flight out, we had a couple of grandmothers sitting behind us... our daughter would stand in our lap, pull herself up, and look over the back of the seat at them. Of course, the two grannies were eating it up, playing with her, etc... so that helped.
Changing diapers on the plane is... interesting. The changing table in the bathroom was adequate. On the flight back, I ended up using the tray tables on the seats. >:D I hope they disinfect those.
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