anyone had experience of this?? Please ease my mind oh wise MNers!

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Hi all,

I'm off to Spain on Thursday (Nerja, lovely place) and this will be DD's (19 months) first flight. I'm starting to get pretty nervous in honesty as I'm worried that the plane will scare her or something...has anyone ever had this happen to them?

Any tips would be great! It's an early morning flight, so I'm hoping she'll be sleepy lol.

(if this helps) she is a very well behaved child, have never had problems while out with her or anything....why am I so nervous for her????!!!

nuts!

The drone of the plane will probably lull her to sleep. The worst thing will probably be her ears on take off and landing.
give her a sweet or something to swallow to help with that.

You're lucky it's only a short trip so enjoy it - you'll be fine.

My dd2 did her first flight at 23 months last year and she was as good as gold; not at all frightened, just quite entertained by the novelty of it all. She ate snacks and did stickers and chatted all the way there.

(The flight back was a different story however - but tiredness was to blame, not fear of flying.)

More than likely your dd will be fine! Have a great holiday.

she'll be fine as long as you don't show you're scared we had a dummy for dd to have for take off and landing, or juice.

It'll be fine! I have never yet met anyone who has experienced the kind of nightmares they've anticipated pre-flight ... and that's long haul flights I'm talking about and with a couple of young children and sometimes just one parent!

Take stuff to do and some snacks and some water/drink (mainly in case there are delays and/or you get stuck on the tarmac for a bit and we found a lollipop good for when the plane starts to descend or something to make her suck/swallow. Neither DD had a problem taking off but DD1 had very painful ears when coming back down again on our last flight which was to Italy.

We also took an extra fleece/top each, so that we could roll it up and put it under DD's head for a pillow or cover them up in case the air conditioning makes the plane really chilly.

ah, thanks ladies!!

It's good to read what you have all said

Will be sure to take things to keep her amused and by the sounds her dummy and a drink will be useful on tack off and landing. I'm just flapping I think lol

I need to be caaaaaaalm lol.