Question about flying with young baby

Question

My husband and I would like to go to Edinburgh in September for a few days. We want to bring our son who will be 5 months at the time of flying. I am getting a bit worried about his safety as both airlines ryanair and aer arann do not allow car seats on their flights. I would like to get some advice from parents who have brought an infant on a flight on how they managed. Has anyone used the crelling safety harness?

Answer 1

my friend had to hold her 8mth on her lap all way to spain... this is what most airlines do..

Answer 2

I've travelled to Budapest, Lithuania and several times to Ireland with my chidren from as young as two months old. The airline gives you a safety belt for the baby which clips to your own - You have to hold the baby on your lap.

Answer 3

you will have to hold baby in your arms. i have travelled with a 40 day old. just make sure he is either sleeping or sucking on something during take off and landing to avoid pain in his ears.

Answer 4

Ok - don't panic - it's dead easy!  I live in London and my mum lives in Aberdeen.  I flew solo with my daughter from a couple of months old loads of times and never had any problems.  You don't need to bring a car seat.  Bring your pram and tell them at check in that you want to bring it to the gate.  They'll give you a luggage tag to put on it.  You'll have to take baby out of the pram so the pram can go through the x-ray scanner so try not to take one that's too heavy if you can.  Remember you're only allowed one piece of hand luggage each so don't stuff the pram full of stuff if you can't get it into your bag.  They'll let you bring the pram right up to where you get on the plane and then they'll put it in the hold.  Not sure if you're breastfeeding or not but you're only allowed 150ml of liquid through security.  You can always buy those little boxes of ready mixed SMA from Boots or similar once you're through security.

Once on the plane (great thing about having kids is you always get to go first!) they will give you an orange belt.  You simply put your own seatbelt on as normal and attach the orange belt to yours and strap baby onto your tummy (a bit like one of those papoose things).  If you are hiring a car in Edinburgh make sure you tell the car hire people that you need a car seat for a 5 month old and it should cost about £12 or so on top of the hire charge.

Bring a dummy or something for him to suck in case he gets bad ears during take off and landing.  You'll probably find that if he's the kind of baby that sleeps in the car, he'll sleep during the flight.  If he cries and screams, don't feel embarrassed - everyone knows that kids do that and it's not their fault!

Have a great trip!

Answer 5

they usually give you a harness for the baby which you fasten round him then u loop your seat belt through his and he is on your lap.,but i suppose these things are only any use if there is a lot of turbulance and as someone else said if there is a plane crash then its not going to make any difference if the baby is in a seat belt or a car seat,,,,

Answer 6

he will be fine. what is a car seat going to help if the plane crashes.lol

Answer 7

i travelled to canada when my baby was 7 months old.it was a 8 hour long flight and she did just fine,although the airline allowed me to take a carseat,it had to be checkd in the baggage.i held my daughter in my lap all through and then i was offered a place where there were some vacant seats so i could put her down to sleep on two seats together.during take off and landing i had to strap myself and hold her uprite in my lap.

Answer 8

I think at that age on your lap would be ok. The baby will most likely sleep a lot. Mine was 15 months on our first international flight and he did better than I expected.  Take a well stocked diaper bag and if possible fly first class.....you could use the extra help.