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We spent Memorial Day weekend visiting Elizabeth’s grandparents, Aunt
and Uncle in Bel Air, MD. Her Great Uncle Boog and Great Aunt Kathy
also drove all the way up from Richmond, VA to meet her. There was
surprisingly little information online about flying with an infant.
There were no magic steps to stress-free flight, no cry-free flying
advice-there was hardly anything. What I did manage to glean from the
web was that babies can’t pop their ears and to make sure they’re
sucking on something during take-off and more importantly landing. Oh,
and pray that your baby doesn’t have a messy diaper because there are
no changing areas. Nobody said, for example, that if there is a spare
seat on a plane and you do manage to get your carseat onboard and baby
strapped in that the baby will be in prime position to kick the seat in
front of her. So on the one flight where we did take the seat on-board,
Elizabeth only lasted 20 minutes in it. Then I was stuck sitting in the
middle seat nursing a baby with a bulky carseat on my right side. I
think we would have rather had the empty seat between us as we did on
one of the flights up. She actually slept for the entire duration of
both return flights – I guess the family wore her out!

Next trip will be to Polo, IL in July to meet Elizabeth’s great
grandma. Since Frank won’t be coming, hopefully Elizabeth will behave
as well as she did on this trip!