Breastfeeding on a plane

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Am travelling on Wednesday with DD aged 6 months on Easyjet. I always thought that it was recommended to BF on take-off to help with ears popping, but according to Easyjet's website this is not allowed.

Any tips on how to manage take off and landing. DD will drink a little bit of water from a bottle (but not long enough to help with popping ears and certainly not if distressed) and doesn't take a dummy.

I did get told to move my armrest back down on Easyjet - I couldn't feed dd with it in the down position as she was 13 months and when lying across my lap she took up two seats. I had to unlatch to move the armrest hence much screaming from dd. (I moved it up again once the stewardess has gone and got back to breastfeeding - I honestly don't know how to pacify a baby any other way . . .must learn other techniques!)

When I flew with Easyjet the flight atttendant did say just before take off that they prefer the babies to face forward but that it was up to me (was breastfeeding when he said it) some airlines do enforce it, transavia for example, but once cabin crew take their seats there's little that they can do/say.

TBH I think easyjet are a really baby friendly airline, two free items of baby equipment in the hold and you get on after the priority boarders before everyone else.

I was actually advised to breastfeed on take off/landing by a member of Easyjet cabin crew because of the ear pressure thing. I seriously can't imagine anyone telling you otherwise if you just do it.

Oh boo I was hoping to find reviews of sequel to 'snakes on a plane'!!

Hope it goes well OP.

I always feed on take off and landing, actually on my first flight with DS I spoke to the flight attendants on Easyjet, they could not believe their ears, and not one of them had ever read that rule in their handbook.

The encouraged me to feed to prevent the ear pain!

Also, if you look at the flight safety sheet in the seat pocket, it shows baby laying in crook of arm in cases of emergency, so in my view this is the safest way for baby to be held.

Have flown Easyjet about six times with DS and breast fed every time. You just have to get the belt on the baby. So I doubt anyone will stop you - we were surrounded on a few flights by people doing exactly the same and were encouraged by the stewards because of the ear popping. So I'd ignore any website "rules".

I fed DS for both takeoff and landing. No issues from flight attendants or anyone else

Brilliant thank you! I will feed away!

Once on a ba flight I was told to point my baby forward sitting up, she was 3 weeks old at the time ( we were moving house, not brave enough to go on holiday with a teeny baby) and it was utterly ridiculous to prop her up. I told the snotty attendant I intended to feed and showed her the safety information which showed the baby in a cradle position whilst the mum braced.

Yes, I have BF during take-off and landing on all four flights I've so far taken DS on - as Annie says, the hard part is getting them to wait till the moment of take off to start feeding! I didn't know it wasn't allowed. In the event of having to adopt the brace position I think I would cradle DS in any event, it wouldn't work having him sitting upright on my lap. It's perfectly possible to BF with the baby's seatbelt on.

Goodness it never occurred to me to check! I bf ds both on take off and landing each time we have flown (twice), no body cared in the slightest. Tbf I think people would rather you did as I could see the look of dread on peoples faces when I got onboard with a baby. (happily I got compliments at the end of the flight about how lovely he had been!)

maisie215 that's true, I did that too.

I bf dd on 2 easyjet flights, nobody said anything apart from to comment on how well behaved she had been.

dd never seems bothered by the ear popping, she tends to tap her ears confusedly but it doesn't hurt me so I guess it doesn't hurt her.