Airline Travel Tips for Flying With Kids

re: Airline Travel Tips for Flying With Kids

Jessica — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:41:41 GMT

If the kid is safely in his or her car seat and you are safely in your seat with your seat belt on, it's really hard to breastfeed your kid. For our trip, my daughter had some of a bottle for the trips up and down. Once we had leveled out she could drink "straight from the tap."

They aren't strict about having formula/milk with you as long as you have the kid with you.

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/children/formula.shtm

Have a great trip!

re: Airline Travel Tips for Flying With Kids

RachelZ — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:53:27 GMT

I was able to take 2 full, 8-oz bottles on the plane with me. They were in the diaper bag and we got through security with no problem at all. The rules are a teeny bit relaxed when you're traveling with a baby, since they didn't ding my huge tube of butt paste, either. They did steal my extra water, though. Whores.

re: Airline Travel Tips for Flying With Kids

StubbyDog — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:45:12 GMT

Personally, I'm thinking that if you're NOT exclusively breastfeeding, then formula or milk definitely does qualify as a necessity...

re: Airline Travel Tips for Flying With Kids

kate — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:05:08 GMT

Um... about the breast milk comment. I'd love to leave it in my body and have my baby drink it, Unfortunately, he sucks so hard he gave me cracked nipples, and then proceeded to suck blood out of my left tit by day 5! After the pediatrician visit to rule out the mouthful of blood coming from him, I bought a pump and have not looked back (too wistfully). I'm taking a 5 hour flight this weekend with a 3 month old in tow, and I will have to pump on the flight. So not only will I have to deal with TSA and the 3 oz rule vs. the breast milk rule, I will need to expose airline passengers to the hidden world of brest pumping - and we all know how tolerant of breast milk issues other non-lactating passengers are.