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We have a winner for the Baby Travel iPhone App photo contest! This contest was open to subscribers to Dr. Northrup’s e-newsletter and we got some great entries. The Pop-a-Tot activity center goes to Jen Salko.
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If you read my last post, Share Your Plane Trip with Young Kids Disaster Story, you may have realized that I started BabyTravel.com not because I have all the answers, but because I made a lot of mistakes. But my ineptitude was not limited to air travel. In fairness to myself, I wasn’t inept at traveling in the car with a baby, it just caused severe and lasting emotional trauma. So this is part one of a four part series on keeping kids entertained in the car. Continue Reading

Sharing travel tales of woe? How is this productive? Rest assured, I am not trying to encourage anyone to wallow in self-pity or scare the pants off some new parent preparing for their first airplane trip with a young child. Mistakes are our best teacher. And why not let someone else make them instead of you? So I’ll go first. Here are my top 5 travel screw-ups! Continue Reading

Today I’ll be flying with the kids from Grand Rapids, MI to Savanna, GA. We’ll spend a couple weeks in Sea Island, GA with my husband’s family. John is driving to Georgia so he can visit a few of his helmet video camera accounts. I always like to have a few new tricks up my sleeve when flying alone with the kids and I just came across this article in by Kim Wallace on BabyCenter.com called, “How to enjoy a plane trip with young children”. It’s very comprehensive and contains good, solid air travel advice. Continue Reading

“Mothers are our taproots into the earth.” Dr. Christiane Northrup encourages women to “Celebrate their maternal legacy” this Mother’s Day. Here is a brief excerpt from her May newsletter, “Women’s Health Wisdom”: Continue Reading

Words cannot possibly DESCRIBE how excited I am to introduce you to this app. A big shout-out to my husband, John, for encouraging me to design an iPhone app and to Scott Holliday, the lead app developer at Jacobs Media. I also want to thank family, friends, Facebook fans and Twitter followers who have been spreading the word via Facebook and Twitter. Here’s a copy our latest press release! Continue Reading

Faithful BabyTravel followers will know that I originally published this post 2 months ago. Since then, we’ve seen a HUGE increase in the number of iPhone apps for parents traveling with children. I am re-posting this with three times the apps. Please post comments if you have a great iPhone, Blackberry or Droid app for keeping kids entertained! Continue Reading

The BabyTravel team hit the road last week! It’s not a very big team – 5 to be exact – largely comprised of people under the age of 8 or people who act like they are under the age of 8. Ahem. Our latest excursion was a voyage to Santa Barbara to visit my husband’s grandmother, Mops, for Easter. Mops is 92 years old and had never met Christopher, our youngest, so everyone was VERY excited for the trip! Continue Reading

Grandma Heidi is my mother-in-law. She and her husband, Dr. Widger, spend 9 months a year away from their home in Ellicottville, NY. Most of their time is spent in Beaver Creek, Colorado. But they also spend several weeks traveling to other favorite spots in northern Oregon, coastal Georgia and a handful of secluded destinations in North America. By anyone’s standards, they are travel pros. Heidi’s recommendations are very comprehensive, as they include not only packing items but Grandma Heidi’s Pre-Departure Checklist and Grandma Heidi’s Departure Day Check List as well. Thank you to Grandma Heidi for submitting these! Continue Reading

With all the things a family needs to do to get ready for a trip, it’s handy to have a pre-departure check list to keep things in hand.  Grandma Heidi is my mother-in-law.  She and her husband, Dr. Widger, are seasoned travelers.  For more recommendations from Grandma Heidi, see Grandma Heidi’s Packing List and Grandma Heidi’s Departure Day Check List. Continue Reading