{"id":396,"date":"2013-03-04T07:55:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T12:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/?p=396"},"modified":"2014-02-27T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:54:16","slug":"baby-screaming-on-the-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/04\/baby-screaming-on-the-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Screaming on the Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"

The girls and I are getting ready for our next airplane adventure.\u00a0 My girls are no strangers to air travel; Sugarplum’s first flight was at 5 weeks. \u00a0Honeybun\u00a0took her first flight at 4 \u00bd months and since has been on over 90 airplanes (see\u00a0“Oh, The Places We’ve Been!”<\/a>\u00a0for info on all our travels).<\/p>\n

\"h<\/p>\n

Honeybun\u00a0has always been a great flyer.\u00a0 Her first flight even though we didn\u2019t buy her a seat they were undersold and she got to sit in her car seat anyways and she slept the entire way\u00a0from Ft. Lauderdale to Denver. \u00a0Whenever possible we would put her in her own car seat and she got used to it very quickly and has never really argued or fussed. \u00a0When deplaning with Honeybun\u00a0I often got compliments about how quiet she was and how people didn\u2019t even know she was there.<\/p>\n

I returned to Florida from Dublin to deliver Sugarplum and\u00a0traveled\u00a0alone with Honeybun\u00a0for\u00a0the first time.\u00a0 At 36 weeks pregnant we boarded a 10-hour flight from\u00a0London<\/a>\u00a0to Denver and Honeybun\u00a0only got out of her car seat twice to get a diaper change.\u00a0 The rest of the time she spent watching movies, napping, reading books and coloring (even though I was in the bathroom at least once an hour–the cabin steward was fantastic and came by every 15 minutes to refill my water glass!)<\/span><\/p>\n

\"cSugarplum on the other hand has never been a good traveler, specifically when we tried to put her in her own seat as an infant.\u00a0 She was not used to the car seat since we didn\u2019t have a car in Dublin and much preferred being in my arms, though on long international or cross-country flights this was not ideal for me.\u00a0 I often got irritated looks from other passengers and the flight crew but I tried to not let it bother me.\u00a0 I\u2019ve realized most travelers are business people who either don\u2019t have children or rarely see the ones they do have.\u00a0 Babies cry and it\u2019s not always simple to get them to stop and sometimes trying to get them to stop can be worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

I learned this lesson the hard way. When Sugarplum was about a year and a half we returned to the states for Christmas.\u00a0 We started our journey with a stop in Massachusetts to see hubby\u2019s family then ventured on to Colorado to spend Christmas with my family.\u00a0 The flight over the ocean must not have been so bad because I don\u2019t remember it at all but the flight to Colorado was horrendous.\u00a0 Sugarplum was exhausted but we missed the opportunity to get her to sleep during boarding so she was really fussy by the time we took our seats.\u00a0 No matter what I did she just cried and cried (and screamed\u2026.see\u00a0\u201cThe Scream Heard Around the Neighborhood\u201d<\/a>). \u00a0A nearly 4 hour flight and nearly 4 hours of screaming.\u00a0 By the time we landed everyone was ready to get away from her, including me.<\/p>\n

I learned from that experience that it doesn\u2019t matter what other people think.\u00a0 I was so caught up in trying to look like I was doing something about it so people wouldn\u2019t be mad at us that it just made Sugarplum more and more upset and the situation was actually much worse.\u00a0 The next flight I put her in her seat, gave her her comfort items and ignored her completely.\u00a0 12 minutes of crying\/screaming and she was asleep.<\/p>\n

Our family travelling has slowed down drastically since returning to the states.\u00a0 We have only been on one airplane trip since moving back over 8 months ago but Sugarplum did so well on those flights.\u00a0 She has gotten used to being in the car seat now that we drive more regularly (and the multi-hour car trips to Disney don’t hurt either!) and so being in it on the airplane is no big thing for her.\u00a0 I find the car seats are so helpful for both girls when flying because I\u00a0 can tell them that their seatbelt must be buckled all the time and they don\u2019t question it because it\u2019s not a choice in the car.\u00a0 It helps keep them in their seats (I am not the type to EVER let my kids go up and down the aisles unless going to or from the lavatory which I avoid at all costs) and they are way more comfy for sleeping which is what really makes any airplane trip with kids easier!<\/p>\n

And my advice to those travelling without kids:\u00a0 Get over yourself. \u00a0Chances are that mommy is doing her best and is just as irritated as you (often because of you).\u00a0 It\u2019s a few hours out of your life and it\u2019s not like you can be on a conference call anyways.\u00a0 We all have places to go and it will be over soon enough!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The girls and I are getting ready for our next airplane adventure.\u00a0 My girls are no strangers to air travel; Sugarplum’s first flight was at 5 weeks. \u00a0Honeybun\u00a0took her first flight at 4 \u00bd months and since has been on over 90 airplanes (see\u00a0“Oh, The Places We’ve Been!”\u00a0for info on all our travels). Honeybun\u00a0has always […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-tiny-travellers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}