Can I take a drink for my daughter on the flight?

[mummyloveslucy]

Hi, we are going to Florida very soon with our 5 year old DD. We've heared that we can't take any fluids through the check in part.
We've been advised to take a sippy cup, to help with ear poping etc, but I'm not sure if we can now. Do they provide them on the flight?
I was planning to take drink and snaks for her as she is a fussy eater.
Please could someone let me know if I can. Thanks

take cup and buy drinks and snacks in duty free

you'd be best giving her a chewy sweet though

and does she really need a sippy cup at 5?

you can take an empty cup and then just decant drinks into it

you can take snacks

you can buy pretty much anything once you're airside though, so if you allow plenty of time you;'ll be able to go and get drinks and snacks before you board the plane

activate, i think the sippy cup is, as OP states, to prevent the ear popping...

Oh thanks, I knew there must be a way around it. This is our first holiday in 8 years, so I'm all .

I just hope they have a drink and snack she likes. (Fussy little bugger)

cup doesn't make any difference - it's the swallowing motion that unpops ears

chewy sweet your best bet really

Yes, the sippy cup is for ear popping. (Not because she's a messy little toad) Honset!

Ds1 (5) would swallow more with a sippy cup though - from a beaker he'd take a quick drink and stop. With a sports bottle / beaker he'll down the whole drink, swallowing all the way up into the air ...

Water will be your friend in AMerica! We had great difficulty getting anything that wasn't fizzy in most places. Saying that, they had orange juice but dd don't like dat either!

Thank you, I think the chewy sweets would please her more too.

They let us take a sippy cup with dd2's special nutritional drink in it (she has severe SN) but I had to drink some of it at the security barrier to prove it wasn't an explosive... She drinks ready prepared drinks in cartons - you can't take anything like that through security in hand luggage but you can put it in the hold.

Agree with the above comments - take the cup empty and buy a suitable drink in duty free.

Orange juice and milk is all she'll drink at the moment, so that's o.k. She dosn't like water. (I've tried so hard!) She does also like the ROC organic drink but only the lemon.

Oh and can I take her vitamins in her suitcase ? They are the Wellkid ones ?

Yes I think you can put vitamins or other medication in the suitcase, but would have to show it if it was in hand luggage.

That's so funny, you had to drink some. What if you'd expressed some breast milk for the flight ?

Yuck!