Travelling with a 12 week old

[Harriet]

Obviously I don't have a 12 week old baby (yet!)... but DP's brother is getting married near Cairns in September this year.
DP is definitely going, but I am still trying to decide what to do, seeing as this is our first baby and I'm not sure how we'd go.
Does anyone have travel tips for travelling with a 12 week old (ish) by plane ... what to expect, what to pack.... or anything else you can think of?

[onthefly]

Depending on your baby, you may find it quite easy as you don't need to pack or prepare food and they can't move around on their own. If your baby is very unsettled, then it might be very stressful for you, however. Though often they grow out of that by around 12 weeks (again, it really depends).
It might be best to just see how you go and decide later. Even if your baby is a perfect angel in the first month or two, they always change, so you just have to roll with it either way.

[Kazzo]

Yeah, it will depend on bubs. We travelled across America with a 12 week old and she was fantastic. Don't think I would have done it with DD2 though if the chance came up. You should have enough time after bubs is born to decide if you will go or not. Flying with a bubs is ok as long as a you have a way to help pressurize their ears. We either BF or gave DD a few drops of Infants Friend if she did not want a feed during take-off and landing. I think too if your bubs gets use to sleeping in different places and going to different places from birth then you will manage fine too.

[sneakysparkle]

Its much easier with a 12 wk old than a 12 mth old!!
I find flying with babies under about 8-9mths old the easiest actually, you just breastfeed them any time they are unsettled and they generally sleep They dont generally need much entertaining at that age either which is good! You just need plenty of nappies and spit rags for any spills or chucks

All the best!

[human bean]

I flew with DD at exactly 12 weeks and it was awesome, am dreading the Chrissy travel with a wriggling 20 month old! She was BF so all I made sure I had was nappies and a change of clothes, and we just fed on take off and landing and requested a basinette seat. Was lucky to get it on one of the 5 hr trips. If the plane isn't full you can request they block out the seat next to you so you have more room, worked for me most of the time.

Good luck!

[luna moth]

I flew with DD at 5, 6 and 16 weeks.

I wrapped her and fed on takeoff and landing (she's a wrap gangsta) and she slept a bit. At 16 weeks she was going through a bit of a phase of breast refusal, so I packed two dummies, which she doesn't normally use.

We caught public transport to the airport with her in the sling, she's always happy in there. We also packed a mat that we could spread her out on for a kick around while we waited to board. That helped with cabin fever when on board.

Otherwise, just packed nappies, spew cloths, the usual nappy bag stuff.