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s/o flying with a toddler
I have the itch to travel over Memorial Day weekend. I found an incredible deal to fly to CA non-stop (where I have friends/family) where we could afford to buy DS his own seat.
DS would be 19 months. DH says no way, not worth the headache. I understand that the flights are long and could be torture with a little guy who doesn't understand TSA guidelines for when to sit. But it's a good deal and I thought it may be easier to fly there when there are just 3 of us as opposed to when we have more kids.
Just looking for opinions or experience. It this insane or a good idea?
Re: s/o flying with a toddler
We'll be flying with Brooks who will be 21 months at the beginning of May and I'm terrified. I haven't flown with him since last May because of his mobility, but friends have done it recently and said it wasn't a big deal.
Just like traveling for a long car ride, take lots of toys that are "new" (don't have to be new, but that she hasn't seen in a while). Unfortunately during the must sit times, she may scream, but so what, it won't be the whole time. If you can get her, her own seat if not, pray. Also Brooks (19 months on Sunday) has started to be interested in TV. We went on a 4 hour car trip this past weekend, just he and I and he seemed to enjoy the portable DVD player.
We took DS to England at Christmas, and had him on our laps. It was a long 8 hours, but it wasn't horrendous. Try to get a flight during naptime or in the evening after he should be in bed. We had a 9pm flight on the way there, and he slept most of the time.
I highly recommend getting a sticker book. We got a roger priddy one of 600 stickers on amazon, and it kept him busy. We even ripped out pages to give families around us. We also got him a new truck book (he's obsessed with trucks), and lots of snacks.
If we had to travel with an 18-mo. old again, we'd buy an extra seat. That extra space would have been extremely useful. Then you could take the carseat so LO can nap and be contained.
Awesome. Thanks to you both for this.
My intention was to fly out over lunch/long nap time and take a red eye back. We'd have a full day to recover at home since we'll have off that Monday.
I guess I'm also not factoring in the jet lag/time difference for DS. Would you recommend keeping him on east coast time or try to adjust as best as possible/fly by the seat of our pants with nap/bed time?
we kind of did an in between schedule for jet lag. kept him up a little later at night by trying to extend his later afternoon nap (planning it around time we would be driving in the car) and at night ds is good at staying up later if he can snack and is entertained.
this kept him sleeping in until a more reasonable time too. normal hours are 8-830p bedtime with a 645-7a wake up. vacation time was 730p bedtime and a 445-5a feeding followed by some co-sleeping/snuggling until a more civilized 7a.
when we fly back east, we now book a seat for Max. We used to have him sit on our laps until last June, when he dumped orange juice all over the man next to us.
as for jet lag, some people say that you can actually start to plan for it before you leave by adjusting bedtime by a little bit each night. I don't have the patience or discipline for that. When we travel, we find that Max is never actually 3 hours off-it's always 1-2 hours, which is totally doable. being flexible is key.