Airport security with a newborn

[ForgeinMother]

First time mum here.

I'm due in mid summer and will (hopefully) be travelling back to the UK for a family wedding around 6weeks after the baby has arrived. I'll be travelling on my own as my partner has work commitments that he simply cannot get out of.

I'm quietly getting nervous and anxious about dealing with security, carrying baby (baby Bjorn), milk bottles etc,. And have no idea the protocol to navigate the whole thing. Do I carry baby through security with me? Can I take bottled breast milk?

I've checked airline websites and sadly haven't come up with many, if any, answers.

Please help!

Wow, thank you all so much for all your wisdom.

I'm by no means hanging all my hopes on being able to travel, it's something that I really hope will be able to happen but obviously the health of baby and myself must come first. The good news is that the drs here don't allow mothers of my age to go further than one week late, so will then have five weeks to get a passport. Sadly the paperwork side might be the downfall, but with many local friends willing to help with the phone calls, meetings, appointments etc. we are hoping it'll go smoothly. It's still a few months away, wedding is mid September, I'm just jumping the gun massively and wanting to have all the answers now!

Thanks again, you are all wonderful!

Everyone will have a different opinion but I think a sling is so much easier than a pram. Baby tucked up on your front and you still have two hands free to deal with life.

You'll be grand. People will be very helpful to someone travelling alone with a baby.

I’d have been ok to travel at 6 weeks and would have taken a sling. However it wouldn’t have happened anyway as his passport took 8 weeks. Check now what you need as you need more for babies born abroad. We have to provide birth certificates for DH and I and also both sets of grandparents. They also had to be the full version so I had to order copies from the GRO for 4 of the 6 as we only had the short version.