airline, so glad you posted! i've been wondering how you're going We flew when Ash was about 4 or 5 months old. But at 4 or 8 weeks you are probably not going to have a routine and it's actually a good time to travel with them as they are happy to feed, sleep, poo etc and don't need a lot of entertaining or distracting. Just do check on the minimum age, especially for international flights. I am pretty sure they say to wait til the bub is at least 6 or 8 weeks old before flying. I think cos they are so suspectible to germs and all that recycled air etc but not real sure so maybe check that too.

I think the immunisation would be okay, I had my WC done with DS's 6 week vaccine, everyone else got theirs before he arrived (he was born dec 09). Maybe you can get in to have bub's immunisations in the UK?

we are thinking about a tassie trip in sept when bub is 2.5/3 months old, it'll be a whole day travelling from here (two flights and an hour car trip) but i'm more worried about DS than the newborn iykwim.

Remember you'll need to feed the bub or have a dummy for him to suck on during take off and landing to help equalise his ears. You can also ask for the seat with the bassinette in it, and a sling is great for any airport stop overs as well as walking round once you are there cos you don't have to worry about trying to negotiate a crowd with a pram.

That's so good you guys could talk about it like adults! sometimes it's so hard tho.

we are in the midst of figuring out what to do with visitors once bub arrives. My MIL was very very unhelpful and really hurt my feelings when she came when DS was 1 month old so I've said to DH, that i don't want his family here for the first 8 weeks. (it was such a shock as usually i get along really well with them and have always tried to do lots of nice things for them to be included in our lives. i'm still hurt about it 14 months later!)

thinking i was being clever i said, ''how bout we go to them when i'm ready''. But they have just assumed MIL will come to help and instead of setting them straight DH told them on the phone the other night that I don't want that but we'd talk about it and let them know gggrrrr He also added that my mum was coming for the birth to help with DS and it sort of came off sounding really badly... for me! what an evil DIL sort of thing.

He is just no good at saying No to them and i feel like he puts him mum before me... "she'd be hurt so she can come" instead "she'll drive wifey nuts and upset her, she can't come". iykwim. Anyway i can't avoid making a decision as its FIL bday today and we hvae to call and I know it'll come up and FIL can be pretty pushy so will put me on the spot... So any advice on how to deal with this and maintain a good relationship with my DH and my ILs would be appreciated lol.

oh dear long post again!

hi to all my girilies and their babies. Hope everyone is well.