Hammock Storage Bag

Hammock Storage Bag

Flying with children and babies

Flying with children and babies

 

Go to your nose, ear and throat doctor to clean your children's wax off their ears. Do not do it yourself! Also consult the doctor if there's any need for ear drops.

Ask your doctor for gases, gums and general soothing medications.

Prepare the children's vaccines book basic details in advance (name, address, weight, height, etc), history of diseases, drugs that the kids took or still taking, vaccines, the number of the attending doctor. It's recommended to make insurance for the kids.

Give your children to drink a lot of water two days prior to the flight, and take with you a litter and a half bottle of boiled water. Drinking the water in the bathrooms abroad is forbidden.

Gear: Distributing packets of milk substitutes, feeding bottles with disposable bags, drinking glasses phonetically driven drizzle - for babies at the age of six months and above, watery personality + straws, disposable aprons, pacifiers, and the most important thing: their most favorite toy.

Don't forget to take for your children their drugs, wet wipes, skin protection lotion, antibiotic creams, anti allergy and pills provoking vomiting (in case of poisoning). Remember that kids tend to vomit during long trips, therefore you should equip those who sit in the back of the car with available nylon bags in case of uncontrollable vomiting, and you should take drugs against nausea.   You should advice your family doctor about this.

Pick a hotel that has programs for children that are safe and have educational control. Pick a hotel that allows you to have appropriate suites or adjoining rooms (and if possible, a linking door + key).

Accommodation in a rented house or vacation village is not recommended. It's better to stay at hotels with as less as movements between hotels as possible. Order the rooms for the hotels from your home country.

When renting a car, choose a car big enough to suffice all your equipment and make sure there is a special chair for the baby. Bring a baby carrier and check it if it's comfortable at home.

 

Airlines give excellent services and preferential treatment to families with small children. For example: when they start raising the passengers to the plane, they let families with the small children get inside first, then the disabled, and only then everybody else according to rows. There are even airports with children or/and babies rooms. You can search for them.

In the check-in before the flight, make sure they have a baby seat and ask for it (insist even) right away (whoever asks first, gets it), or ask for a proper hammock, but be prepared to have the baby on your knees. In swirls of air pockets, and in take-offs and landings, the baby mustn't be in the hammock.

Before you enter the airport, give identification tags to the big children and stickers to the babies, and write on them all the information needed: where are you from, where are you flying to, and the most important, phone numbers where you could be reached as soon as possible.

Have your important documents somewhere comfortable and easy to be retrieved when you hold your child at your hands.

When you're in the line for the security/passports check, ask at the counter if they can accept you immediately. You should ask if there are special arrangements for families with babies (like family rooms and boarding arrangements). They usually give priority to passengers with small children. If you are with several babies, each parent should take one or two babies under his control, in order to prevent fights. In case the plane doesn't have hammock, you should have a sea mattress with a blanket.

Try changing the babies' diapers before you take-off because inside the plane it is very complicated and crowded. If there's no other choice, have one parent inside the bathroom, and the other parent outside to watch and take care that no one bothers.    

Take with you everything you need for the flight: soft food that the kids love just in case they don't love the meal they get in the plane, a glass with a straw, an amount of enough disposable diapers, wet towels, toys or dolls that the kids love (the ones they still sleep with especially) and etc.

For the bigger children, it's recommended to take coloring books, color pencils (not pens), colorful stickers, a reading book that they love, and an mp3 player with their favorite songs.

Recommendation: share the bigger children about choosing the gear, and you can even give each and every one of them a small bag where you could storage their equipment.

Dress the children/babies with comfortable clothes.

It's very recommended to give the kids gums or candy in order to balance the pressures that were made in situations like these.

Babies tend to cry when the plane starts to lower since they cannot release the painful pressure in their ears during landing, therefore its best to feed them or give them a drink during that time.

Give your kids to sit near the window at the plane. It improves their feeling and allows them to enjoy the flight.

Encourage the kids to drink a lot of water during the flight, since the air at the plane is very dry.

In Boeing advances planes models, like the 777 or 747 or 400, there are special movies channels for children and a channel with a map showing them the flight's route. Show them these channels, they will feel happier knowing the flight's progress.         

EL-AL flights: EL-AL flight attendants go through special training taking care of children including children that flight without escort. Also, EL-AL pilots are glad to have children in the cockpit after landing, in case it is possible.

Babies' Ear pressure could be release using a pacifier or drinking from a bottle. But in order to avoid it, you should put babies' earplugs before you take-off or land (not water sealed).

Take in account that the baby might not sleep through the entire flight, and if he does, he might sleep on your knees the entire flight (it's not so comfortable at trans-atlantics flights).

If you're flying a connection flight, its recommended to take a light caring cart (that will be loaded to the cargo once you reach the entrance of the plane, but its best to check ahead with your travelling agent if that's fine with the airline).

For long distance flights, we advocate you make a layover for a full day, near the airport.

 

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