Tips needed for travelling with routine exclusively breastfed baby

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Help, I'm going to America for 2 months with 6wk old and will probably be out all day and every day from around 11am to 10pm at night. I am feeding him 3hrly, just breastfeeding and no expressing, and am doing Baby Whisperer routine - feed, then waketime, then nap. Any tips on how to maintain a routine (demand feeders I already know what you think )?!!! We'll be visiting homes, going to meetings, eating out, shopping etc. Oh, and I've ordered a sling!

Beartime: Make sure you breastfeed baby during take-off and landing - apparently their ears are very sensitive to pressure changes and this helps reduce the pain.

Yes I'll do that, thanks for the tip

Crying babies and flying???
Grin and bear it. Actually,you just push a boob into their mouth. Didn't hear a peep out of dd for this reason on flights to Thailand and Sri Lanka.
I think between 1 and 3 is the worst time.Not old enough to entertain themselves but too little to keep kneebound.

Had a truly horrendous three plane flight home three weekes ago from Turkey with my 17th mth old and 5 year old.

Oh that's good to know - the plane was one place I was intending to go more with demand feeding

Honestly,it's not a problem.

At the risk of sounding like a smartarse,my kids have flown a lot more than SueW's even.

Get a growbag with the holes for the car seat if you babe is big enough for that one. She can wear whatever she is wearing at the time underneath the gro bag. If it's hot just slip the top layer off her. Buy a 2.5 tog - the thin ones are really only for high summer.

My dd1 never got a chance to cry on a flight due to a boob in her mouth

There is a limit to how much you can feed a baby though IME. I do remember hours of walking DD up and down the plane between Singapore and Auckland because it was her daytime and the airline's night-time and we'd already travelled 12 hours. And she developed an obsession with the toilets because it was the only place where the light was on!!

But this was an 11mo on a 36-hour trip not a 2-4mo on a transatlantic trip which is a different kettle of fish altogether I'm sure,

Oh goodness Sue that doesn't sound like fun! Actually we're leaving early morning, so the day will be the day I think, the prob might be when we get there and I want to go to bed and he doesn't! That timezone stuff alwats confuses me!

Where can you get a travel grobag that's not on the internet (I only have one day left to buy it!0 and should I take a blanket for over it in case it's cold?

Thankyou, waswondering. I don't know if the next day delivery thing would work since we're leaving 6am Tuesday! But maybe I can get it over there - would be cheaper too. That's true about a/c - in fact it's often colder there with a/c!

I did request a sky cot, so we'll see...

Now I've just got to figure out how many clothes to take for him!

You don't put blanket over gro bag, rather dress baby more warmly.

Just to update - travel went great - feeding was no problem staying on a 3hr routine, and then later a four hour routine. It just meant I had to feed in restaurants and cars and all over the place! And the sleep thing was fine too - I just kept track of how much sleep he'd had so he didn't have too much and not sleep at night, and then whenever we stopped I would wake him up and play with him if he'd been asleep a long time. So it wasn't always in the right order, but pretty good, and he slept thru the night at 6wks even after ahving to get over jetlag!

Good!
It's nice to know how these things turn out.