You would rightly assume that traveling with an infant will be more complicated than not. However, there are certain benefits to flying with a baby, well, there were for this flight! Check them out:
Priority - You get to board the plane before everyone else, even first class!
Extra leg room - BA gave us front row seats with a drop down platform with a crib on it!
Kindness - Scott was holding Emma when they served the meal, so they kept it warm until he was ready!
Perks - I needed to pump while the Fasten Seatbelt sign was on, but they let me use the bathroom!
Everyone was so friendly, cooing over Emma as they waited to use the bathroom, which was in front of our seats! Obviously there was curiosity about the pulse ox and feeding pump, which we used to share Emma's story of hope and faith.
Now, that might not have been so if she wasn't so wonderfully well-behaved the entire flight! She hardly let out a peep. Sleeping most of the time in the crib or on us.
Unfortunately the reduced oxygen on the plane brought her SATs down to the 80s, so when we had her on the pulse ox it was constantly alarming! After a long-time of watching and silencing it we opted to just hold her as she was doing pretty well.
Priority - You get to board the plane before everyone else, even first class!
Extra leg room - BA gave us front row seats with a drop down platform with a crib on it!
Kindness - Scott was holding Emma when they served the meal, so they kept it warm until he was ready!
Perks - I needed to pump while the Fasten Seatbelt sign was on, but they let me use the bathroom!
Everyone was so friendly, cooing over Emma as they waited to use the bathroom, which was in front of our seats! Obviously there was curiosity about the pulse ox and feeding pump, which we used to share Emma's story of hope and faith.
Now, that might not have been so if she wasn't so wonderfully well-behaved the entire flight! She hardly let out a peep. Sleeping most of the time in the crib or on us.
Unfortunately the reduced oxygen on the plane brought her SATs down to the 80s, so when we had her on the pulse ox it was constantly alarming! After a long-time of watching and silencing it we opted to just hold her as she was doing pretty well.
We had decided to bring only the Snugli carrier to transport Emma as my parents had borrowed all the other baby stuff. She did really well in it and it made maneuvering her much easier.
The flight was 7 hours long and that included the first 5 hours of Emma's normal night-time sleep. The rest of her night-time sleep was lost in the 5 hour time change. You may have guessed, that led to trouble later on!
The flight was 7 hours long and that included the first 5 hours of Emma's normal night-time sleep. The rest of her night-time sleep was lost in the 5 hour time change. You may have guessed, that led to trouble later on!
The first time I went in to the bathroom to pump I was obviously in there for a few minutes. The flight attendant came and asked Scott if I was alright!! She figured I was probably in their "expressing" though.
Scott and I did not sleep a wink on the flight, watching for Emma. By 9pm we were zombies - I even fell asleep sitting upright in a chair while pumping! But Emma, over tired and in a strange house was mad. At 10pm (after I gave up fighting the sleep) Scott actually took her out in the windy night for a walk.
It worked and they were both asleep about 11pm. Scott even managed to set up the pump feed before sleeping. My hero, really!
Oh, and it was great to see my family through the haze of fatigue and screaming!
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