Parenting Tip: Airplane Travel

Traveling with your baby can be stressful, especially anticipating all the people your baby will be exposed to & their potential discomfort with changing cabin pressure. When you're actually on the airplane, one of the things you can do to prevent your baby from getting sick is to lubricate the nose and eyes with breast milk if you're breastfeeding. If not, you can use Aquaphor or Vaseline to coat their nose to prevent drying. So that helps with preventing germs getting into, your baby's nose during the flight. Another thing to keep your baby from feeling the uncomfortable pressure of the airplane is to either, you can either nurse, bottle feed, or give your baby a pacifier on the way up. And down.

If you're flying internationally, you can call your airline to ask for a bassinet, which is just exactly as it sounds. A little bassinet that hooks onto the, wall of the airplane where you're gonna be. And you want to do that as soon as possible because there's only 2 on each flight.

And remember, if your baby is crying, the crying is loudest for you. And everyone on that airplane was a baby once.