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Flying with children and babies
Go to your nose, ear and throat doctor to clean your
children's wax off their ears. Do not do it yourself! Also
consult the doctor if there's any need for ear drops.
Ask your doctor for gases, gums and general soothing
medications.
Prepare the children's vaccines book basic details in
advance (name, address, weight, height, etc), history of
diseases, drugs that the kids took or still taking,
vaccines, the number of the attending doctor. It's
recommended to make insurance for the kids.
Give your children to drink a lot of water two days prior to
the flight, and take with you a litter and a half bottle of
boiled water. Drinking the water in the bathrooms abroad is
forbidden.
Gear: Distributing packets of milk substitutes, feeding
bottles with disposable bags, drinking glasses phonetically
driven drizzle - for babies at the age of six months and
above, watery personality + straws, disposable aprons,
pacifiers, and the most important thing: their most favorite
toy.
Don’t forget to take for your children their drugs, wet
wipes, skin protection lotion, antibiotic creams, anti
allergy and pills provoking vomiting (in case of poisoning).
Remember that kids tend to vomit during long trips,
therefore you should equip those who sit in the back of the
car with available nylon bags in case of uncontrollable
vomiting, and you should take drugs against nausea.
You should advice your family doctor about this.
Pick a hotel that has programs for children that are safe
and have educational control. Pick a hotel that allows you
to have appropriate suites or adjoining rooms (and if
possible, a linking door + key).
Accommodation in a rented house or vacation village is not
recommended. It's better to stay at hotels with as less as
movements between hotels as possible. Order the rooms for
the hotels from your home country.
When renting a car, choose a car big enough to suffice all
your equipment and make sure there is a special chair for
the baby. Bring a baby carrier and check it if it's
comfortable at home.
Airlines give excellent services and preferential treatment
to families with small children. For example: when they
start raising the passengers to the plane, they let families
with the small children get inside first, then the disabled,
and only then everybody else according to rows. There are
even airports with children or/and babies rooms. You can
search for them.
In the check-in before the flight, make sure they have a
baby seat and ask for it (insist even) right away (whoever
asks first, gets it), or ask for a proper
hammock, but be prepared to have
the baby on your knees. In swirls of air pockets, and in
take-offs and landings, the baby mustn’t be in the
hammock.
Before you enter the airport, give identification tags to
the big children and stickers to the babies, and write on
them all the information needed: where are you from, where
are you flying to, and the most important, phone numbers
where you could be reached as soon as possible.
Have your important documents somewhere comfortable and easy
to be retrieved when you hold your child at your hands.
When you're in the line for the security/passports check,
ask at the counter if they can accept you immediately. You
should ask if there are special arrangements for families
with babies (like family rooms and boarding arrangements).
They usually give priority to passengers with small
children. If you are with several babies, each parent should
take one or two babies under his control, in order to
prevent fights. In case the plane doesn’t have
hammock, you should have a sea
mattress with a blanket.
Try changing the babies' diapers before you take-off because
inside the plane it is very complicated and crowded. If
there's no other choice, have one parent inside the
bathroom, and the other parent outside to watch and take
care that no one bothers.
Take with you everything you need for the flight: soft food
that the kids love just in case they don’t love the meal
they get in the plane, a glass with a straw, an amount of
enough disposable diapers, wet towels, toys or dolls that
the kids love (the ones they still sleep with especially)
and etc.
For the bigger children, it's recommended to take coloring
books, color pencils (not pens), colorful stickers, a
reading book that they love, and an mp3 player with their
favorite songs.
Recommendation: share the bigger children about choosing the
gear, and you can even give each and every one of them a
small bag where you could storage their equipment.
Dress the children/babies with comfortable clothes.
It's very recommended to give the kids gums or candy in
order to balance the pressures that were made in situations
like these.
Babies tend to cry when the plane starts to lower since they
cannot release the painful pressure in their ears during
landing, therefore its best to feed them or give them a
drink during that time.
Give your kids to sit near the window at the plane. It
improves their feeling and allows them to enjoy the flight.
Encourage the kids to drink a lot
of water during the flight, since the air at the plane is
very dry.
In
Boeing advances planes models,
like the 777 or 747 or 400, there are special movies
channels for children and a channel with a map showing them
the flight's route. Show them these channels, they will feel
happier knowing the flight's progress.
EL-AL flights:
EL-AL
flight attendants go through
special training taking care of children including children
that flight without escort. Also, EL-AL pilots are glad to
have children in the cockpit after landing, in case it is
possible.
Babies' Ear pressure could be release using a pacifier or
drinking from a bottle. But in order to avoid it, you should
put babies' earplugs before you take-off or land (not
water sealed).
Take in account that the baby might not sleep through the
entire flight, and if he does, he might sleep on your knees
the entire flight (it's not so comfortable at
trans-atlantics flights).
If you're flying a connection flight, its recommended to
take a light caring cart (that will be loaded to the cargo
once you reach the entrance of the plane, but its best to
check ahead with your travelling agent if that’s fine with
the airline).
For long distance flights, we advocate you make a layover
for a full day, near the airport.
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