There's nothing worse than a huffing and puffing idiot who can't deal with facts of life.
Babies instinctively cry. Sorry. Babies crying on a plane are crying for the reasons they normally cry for when at home.
Taking 8 month old baby on holiday
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There's nothing worse than a huffing and puffing idiot who can't deal with facts of life.
Babies instinctively cry. Sorry. Babies crying on a plane are crying for the reasons they normally cry for when at home.
Soldato
I imagine suddenly hearing multiple chants of 'Allahu ackbar' coming from the front of plane halfway through your journey is a tad worse than a crying baby.
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Hire a car and don't forget on Easyjet (dont know about others) you can take care seats and a pram for free, so saves you hiring a car seat which will end up costing more than buying a new one. I don't know what the people in this thread are on about. It's easy going on holiday with kids, and at 8 months you can go whenever you want which means you pay half price compared to school holiday time. Just pack and leave, i dont see why everyone thinks its so complicated. The only extra things you need are things like nappies and any medicine. Also get a Baby Bjorn or similar and carry them around with you if you want to visit anywhere, we went all over the place when our kids were that young. It's not about this nonsense of "wah wah they wont remember it", it's about spending time as a family and watching them grow and enjoy new things. Everything they do is a new experience regardless of whether they recall that specific moment in 20 years.
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Why would you want to go to a rough area?
Anyway, make sure you take a Baby Monitor so you can leave baby in your room while you go drinking.
I can't believe how many parents still do this so it must be OK.
Holiday is not that diff to home.
Flying is the most challenging but can be manageable. People think all babies cry but they only notice a few on plane. Main thing is to make sure you don’t fly stupid hours or when they are very tired.
Ideally you want a morning flight and have milk for take off and landings (pressure)
Flying is the most challenging but can be manageable. People think all babies cry but they only notice a few on plane. Main thing is to make sure you don’t fly stupid hours or when they are very tired.
Ideally you want a morning flight and have milk for take off and landings (pressure)
Our son had just turned 3 when in Rhodes.
We’ve been going aboard with him since from about 9 months old.
That's hardly a baby. And no but that's parents letting a child be naughty. Unless there is some unknown reason.
A baby crying because it's hungry or over tired is completely fine to me though.
Soldato
I don’t have to spend 12 hours in your lounge at home with your crying baby though. Having had the misfortune of several long haul flights next to babies who cried virtually the whole time, it really isn’t pleasant and leaves you completely exhausted when you arrive at your destination. Leaving aside the argument of whether or not it’s selfish for your fellow passengers, I find it incredibly surprising the parents are willing to put themselves through that experience in the first place as it must be even worse for them than it is for me. If you insist on taking your baby on holiday, at least choose a short haul flight.
Soldato
You don't *have* to fly either.
QFT.
Fortunately the last 2 or 3 flights Ive been on there have been no babies at all and frankly it was absolute bliss.
The time before that was about 3 hours to stockholm, and a few rows back from me was a baby which wasnt just crying but absolutely screaming for the entire flight. I fortunately had noise cancelling earphones but it was still screaming loud enough to hear for the entire flight, I genuinely felt bad for those around me without them.
If it were upto me id of emptied an overhead locker at the back of the plane and shut it in there.
You dont *have* to take a baby on holiday with you either.
You dont *have* to go on holiday.
You dont *have* to have a baby.
You dont *have* to fly with a baby.
etc etc etc. Stupid comment.
Soldato
People with babies don't *have* to fly either. Me getting on a plane affects none of my fellow passengers as I always try to be considerate: as much towards those with babies as with anyone else. I'd also hazard a guess that my reasons for flying (my job / seeing my parents) are generally more in the *have* to camp than those who simply want to go somewhere very far away with their baby.
Soldato
I agree, and that was my point.
Enyoy, it is the best time. Gets much harder when they are older. Make use of cheap sir fair and get a long haul flight. Baby will sleep right through.
Things to be aware of is a limited set of safety issues you might not think of. You can't go to the beach in the sun in the middle of the day. Baby will get too hot and will burn up. You can't use sub tab lotion or at least not the strong stuff and too much. a beach tent will keep dunnoff but when it gets hot babies can't cool them selves. Solution is early to the besch, then nice early lunch with done drinks and home to hotel for siesta, back out late afternoon.
Hiking, site seeing all good with baby in backpack or stroller and again in the hottest part of the day for long lunch and drinks in shade, or got o an air conditioned museum etc.
Things to be aware of is a limited set of safety issues you might not think of. You can't go to the beach in the sun in the middle of the day. Baby will get too hot and will burn up. You can't use sub tab lotion or at least not the strong stuff and too much. a beach tent will keep dunnoff but when it gets hot babies can't cool them selves. Solution is early to the besch, then nice early lunch with done drinks and home to hotel for siesta, back out late afternoon.
Hiking, site seeing all good with baby in backpack or stroller and again in the hottest part of the day for long lunch and drinks in shade, or got o an air conditioned museum etc.
One of my most heart rendering moments in life was watching a mother with a downs syndrome kid being escorted off a plan because he "would not settle".
Selfish people were complaining because he was crying an upset. He was sat in his seat, but clearly very upset.
I was ashamed of everyone on that plane who complained, and when I saw the poor mum's face my I died a little inside. That poor lady was just trying to take a flight home with her disabled child, and just because people were not happy with a bit of noise on public transport they had to suffer further.
Parents do not want to upset people on the plane. Trust me, they already feel terrible if their child is crying and causing scene, they don't need people with total lack of empathy and patience making their nightmare any worse.
Just suck it up, put on a smile and put on your headphones. You are an adult with the freedom to travel unhindered, if you can't deal with an upset child for a few hours, then how will you ever cope with life?
I have not flown with my kids yet (6 and 3) but some people have to fly with kids as it's the only practical way, just give them some space and know that you can get off the plane and saunter off into your perfect life with little consequence from your "ordeal".
However, if you are on short haul and you EVER recline your seat (or even on long haul without at least notifying the person behind you first) you deserve to die
Selfish people were complaining because he was crying an upset. He was sat in his seat, but clearly very upset.
I was ashamed of everyone on that plane who complained, and when I saw the poor mum's face my I died a little inside. That poor lady was just trying to take a flight home with her disabled child, and just because people were not happy with a bit of noise on public transport they had to suffer further.
Parents do not want to upset people on the plane. Trust me, they already feel terrible if their child is crying and causing scene, they don't need people with total lack of empathy and patience making their nightmare any worse.
Just suck it up, put on a smile and put on your headphones. You are an adult with the freedom to travel unhindered, if you can't deal with an upset child for a few hours, then how will you ever cope with life?
I have not flown with my kids yet (6 and 3) but some people have to fly with kids as it's the only practical way, just give them some space and know that you can get off the plane and saunter off into your perfect life with little consequence from your "ordeal".
However, if you are on short haul and you EVER recline your seat (or even on long haul without at least notifying the person behind you first) you deserve to die
There is actually independent scientific research that shows that babies don't have issues flying and don't cry more than udusu. Just bon parents aren't used to spending X hours with a baby.
Tired babies can be fine, they fall asleep. Young babied can breast feed or take a dummy or bottle for take off and landing to help pressure balance.
Well our flights we have to stop and change in Istanbul. Total about 10 hours.
Shocked at some of the comments on here, all i can say is don't have children you won't handle it if you think crying on a plane for an hour is bad.
I think of i get over of those people that huff about it i will just laugh. I think the lad will be fine though probably wake him a bit early that day good done of his breakfast back and he can have a bottle at take off should fall asleep then.
Shocked at some of the comments on here, all i can say is don't have children you won't handle it if you think crying on a plane for an hour is bad.
I think of i get over of those people that huff about it i will just laugh. I think the lad will be fine though probably wake him a bit early that day good done of his breakfast back and he can have a bottle at take off should fall asleep then.
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Well, people do have to fly.
