Flying with a one-month-old baby?

[Pantalaimon]

Hi all mums out there,

I am looking for some advice: I have a very important wedding next year in Italy but my baby will be only one month old by then.

Has anybody flown with such a young baby and if so how have you found it?

Thanks

Margherita

[Belle]

Hi Pantalaimon - i think you'll get loads of useful replies if you post this in the family room :) lots of experienced fliers-with-babies there.

[DrinkingBuddy]

Flying with a very young baby is fine. You can take the buggy all the way to the plane and they tend to sleep for the entire flight due to the vibration.

[Manda]

I flew to Oz last year with a five month old baby and DrinkingBuddy is right...

You also get to board the plane first

If it's long haul, you get seats at the front of the aisle so they can attach a bassinet to the wall in front of you but you probably won't need this for Italy. You have to have a little seat-belt attachment for take-offs and landings but it's no bother

My son wasn't weaned so like you I didn't have to bother with packing food.

Breast or bottle feed him/her on take-off and landing as it prevents the build-up of pressure which can make his/her ears hurt

They sleep a lot at this age so she/he may sleep through the entire thing

Take a sling so you can move around the plane together when you need to, also useful for stop-overs and soothing him/her

As long as they are with you, they are happy :-)

Good luck

[Pickle]

The younger they are the easier it is, you will be fine. I am currently in New Zealand, having flown here two days ago with a 6 year old, 4 year old and 11 month old baby - it was absolutely fine, and my baby slept a lot. Feed on takeoff and landing if you can (although I always find if the baby is asleep they don't seem bothered by the pressure changes).

We flew when our oldest was just a couple of months old and he slept almost the whole way to NZ!

Have fun.

[nikki73]

Agree with everyone else. I flew with 4week old.it was perfect.she slept through

[DaveR]

I took a completely unplanned long haul flight with my 12 day old daughter, and honestly, it was a breeze. Don't worry about the flight - I would think more about making sure that once you get there you have time/space to relax a bit.

[Strawbs]

Definitely the younger they are the easier it is. I flew solo to Australia with my at the time 7m old and he was an absolute dream on the flight.. He wouldn't sleep in the sky cot which meant he slot on me so I barely ate or drank on the flight but if you aren't going solo I wouldn't worry about that. I had an ergo carrier with me an they didn't make me take it off in customs x

[sandy_rose]

We flew with a 6 wk old - so easy. Do consider the time it takes to register birth, organise photos and applying for passport though. And the baby will be due the first lot of jabs at 4 weeks so you might want to think about scheduling of those.

[etta166]

I second what sandy_rose says about the passport etc. I flew for a wedding 3 weeks after my second baby was due. If she hadn't been born early then we probably wouldn't have been able to get a passport on time. If you need to register the birth in Lambeth, you could try using the service for Lambeth births at the Southwark register office as it's sometimes easier to get an appointment there.

The filght is no problem at all with a baby that small. It's the toddlers that are hard to entertain!