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Flying With Young Children

February 8, 2011 By 4 Comments
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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. How to enjoy a plane trip with young children. Like many parents with young … [Read more...]

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5 Tips for Flying with a Baby

January 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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You’ve scoured the internet for travel destinations, successfully booked your vacation, and purchased of an obscene amount gear for traveling with your baby.  As your departure date looms ever nearer, apprehension mounts as you contemplate a flight with your new little bundle of joy. Fear not.  Whether this is your first trip or you’ve already got several baby travel adventures under your belt, we’ve collected some tips to make your travels relaxing and enjoyable. … [Read more...]

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You “Guten” anything for that?

September 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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by Michelle Moore, Nurse and mother of two When a child gets sick overseas... My husband and I traveled 14 hours from California to Germany, and were DELIGHTED when our room was equipped with black-out drapes so we could all adjust to the new time zone. We were equally delighted when our 2 year old slept the first 14 hours we were there...until we had to wake her up (as new parents, it was a strict and holy rule NEVER to wake a sleeping baby). While we thought we co-created the world’s perfect traveling baby (“What great adaptation she has to a new time zone!” followed by, “Great … [Read more...]

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Share Your Plane Trip with Young Kids Disaster Story

May 12, 2010 By 5 Comments
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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! … [Read more...]

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Technology to Make Travel Easier

April 24, 2010 By 2 Comments
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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! Kayak.com Kayak.com is like a having virtual travel agent. And now, mobile phone applications make this massive search engine available wherever you go. The iPhone app includes KAYAK Trips so you can easily manage your itinerary. And yippee, … [Read more...]

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Evaluating Lodging Options

February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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One Friday in my mid-20's, I decided to escape a particularly nasty January in Minneapolis by taking a solo trip anywhere warm. I arrived in Miami the next day and rented a mini-van, which served the purpose of both transportation and accommodation for a week in Key West. Having a baby changes everything... including the places you stay when you travel. Gone are days of escaping on a whim, resigned to a course of fate's choosing. Though there are periods in our life where "roughing it" adds richness and dimension to our travels, early parenthood is not the time to wing it. Clean … [Read more...]

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The Best (and Worst) Airport Hubs for Traveling Families

January 28, 2010 By 1 Comment
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Unless you are traveling to and from a major city, it is likely you will have a connection before arriving at your final destination. Each airline has hubs through which it routes the majority of its connecting flights. When choosing your flight, it's handy to know which hubs offer kid-friendly options for traveling families. … [Read more...]

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Entertaining Babies and Toddlers on Airplanes

January 22, 2010 By 5 Comments
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You paid more for luggage than the actual price of your airfare, you shoved your over-large stroller through the security checkpoint, and you watched in resignation as your child did laps around the moving walkways. As the plane boards, most parents suffer some degree of anxiety about the potential public humiliation they will endure if their child throws a tantrum on the flight. Whether your flight is a puddle-jump across the state or an epic trans-Pacific voyage, you'll need a strategy to keep the little one(s) entertained. … [Read more...]

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Choose the Perfect Baby Stroller

January 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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Writing this article is akin to stepping into the void. If you think it's hard to choose a baby stroller, try writing a review about them! After scouring internet chat rooms, independent consumer reviews, Amazon reviews, baby equipment websites, baby stroller manufacturer websites and even YouTube, I think I finally have a clear perspective of todays stroller landscape. First, you probably need to accept the fact that you will need more than one stroller. If your life is dynamic (read: "not boring"), it will be difficult to find a one-stroller-fits-all solution. There are three basic … [Read more...]

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Avoid Ear Problems on Airplanes

January 12, 2010 By 3 Comments
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The majority of parents traveling with young children are concerned about ear problems on the airplane.  A short anatomy lesson will help you understand the root of the problem.  Ear pain is caused by a difference in pressure in the middle ear and the cabin of the airplane.  This occurs most often and most intensely during descent, but it can happen during take-off as well. … [Read more...]

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