Booking a holiday for August but no idea about baby...

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Hey,

I'm just wondering if anyone knows how this works.

I'm due end of April, so obviously don't know the babies name, sex and DOB.

I would like to book a holiday abroad for end of August but I'm not sure if I need to wait until the baby is born?

Does anyone have any experience of this?

I booked flights with Ryanair a few weeks ago they said to enter baby name as unborn surname and put yesterday's date as dob then to ring up after baby is born to amend name and dob and they'll do this free of charge. If Ryanair do this then I'm. Sure it'll be same for most airlines

I think DS1 was once booked as Infant Dragon as he was unborn at the time of booking. We (or rather XH) phoned and added his details later.

Thank you! It's not like they need a seat anyway! X

Needing a seat depends on flight length imo. Short haul as babies I sat them on my lap, but long haul I booked own seat for baby as could then take car seat on for them to sleep in ( and I could sleep easier also)

It would just be a short haul flight, probably somewhere like Ibiza! Xx

I booked a short and a long haul flight before DS was born and I've just booked a long haul before DC2 is born. With DS I just called the airline and added him to the booking after he was born. I'll do the same with this baby. Check the airline website, they should have a section on booking for an infant that is not yet born. You're right, for short haul you won't need a seat for baby. Good to see that you're going ahead and booking it; lots of people I speak to seem very wary of flying with babies and toddlers but it's really not that difficult if you plan and prepare a bit... ok, by a bit I mean a lot but still, it's really fine.

We booked a holiday when I was pg. We entered it as Baby Buffalo but it requested a title, as we didn't know the sex and didn't want to select the wrong one I chose 'Dr' - hopefully it'll set our DC up for greatness