Thanks Jayne. My DD can suck from a straw but she also knows how to suck and spit - so it can get quite messy - LOL. Ooohh, I think she would suck on some sort of lollipop style food, I could try dried mango or something similar. Might have to get my thinking cap on. Thanks for the tip
We took one of those mesh feeders with us when we flew with DD at 7months and she had fresh fruit in it to suck on. I also took a llittle bag with her favourite toys, some ribbon and new stuff that she hadn't seen before. On the way home she played with pegs the whole way that DF's parents had given her