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Car seat / stroller

You can take a car seat with you in the airplane. If your baby is under one, you can take the car seat that is attached to the stroller. Take the stroller with you up to the gate. Give your stroller to a welcoming flight attendant of your plane and make sure you keep the ticket of he stroller that she will give you. After you arrive at your destination give the ticket to a flight attendant and the stroller will wait for you at the exit of the plain.
For parents who travel a lot and want to pare down their baby travel gear, the Sit-N-Stroll car seat and stroller combination is a great option. Eliminates the need to travel with both car seat and stroller. Performs very well as a stroller - smooth steering, turns well. Sturdy frame and nice fabric hold up to travel wear and tear. Stroller handle and wheels are fairly easy to pop up and down.

Seat assignment

Only choose bulkhead seats if your baby needs a baby bassinet. If not get any other seats in preference. The reason for this is that at the bulkhead seats the armrest cannot be moved, while in normal seats the armrests can go up. This is far better if your baby wants to lie down on the seat with her head on your lap.

Ear pressure
If your baby is on a bottle or breastfeeding, give them the bottle or the breast for take-off & landing. It's the best things for their ears and they will also be relaxed.
If your child is big, then carry cotton or ask for earplugs as soon as you board the aircraft. Make use of them for take-off then save them for landing as the crew may not have any fresh ones left by then. This helps the kids tremendously if they don't know how to pop their ears.

Books and Travel Toys

Carry reading books (new ones preferably), colouring books and crayons, and if you can afford a portable DVD player, travel toys.

Bathroom

Make your kids use the toilets before boarding the aircraft as they are spacious and much cleaner compared to the aircraft ones! Carry baby wipes as you will need them a lot in-flight for a quick wipe up. Be sure to put them in a place easily accessible to you throughout the flight.

 Food

Carry biscuits, water, juice & snacks for your kids. Also carry milk packets (the UHT small packets) yourself. Airline snacks run out in flight and milk is a shortage very often. Make sure they are not open, so you can go smooth through security.

Health

If your child has a cold please ensure you have seen a doctor before the flight to check if the child is fit to fly. Even if the doctor says it's OK, please use your judgment. I see kids flying a cold and they really are in a bad state for take-off & landing. It is extremely painful for them if they are all congested & blocked up and they cannot pop their ears. It is very dangerous to their eardrums too! Also purchase a travel insurance in advance. International tickets are non refundable and with penalties to change. Travel insurance will cover you in case of sickness.

Bottle heating

If you ask the crew to heat up the baby bottle, please check the temperature of the liquid yourself periodically and don't depend on the crew. They are extremely busy and no-one is free even for 5 minutes to stand by the bottle. Crew can unfortunately forget about your bottle for a long time and most crew in Ecomony Class are not mothers themselves (as they are very young) so they do not necessarily know the right temperature for a child's feed.

Clothes

Carry a change of clothes for your child ALWAYS and it is advisable to carry a change of top / t-shirt for yourself too. You NEVER know when you will need it...

This is just few of the ideas and advices we can give you from experience with working and helping so many customers.
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