Traveling with baby - scared! going to Russia

Question

I have to travel with my 7 months old baby to Russia and I'm SCARED. My baby doesn't want to sit still for more than 10 min. She is crawling and on the move all the time. The flight to Russia is 12 hours and then another 2. Any advise? Any of you traveled like this?

Answer 1

I traveled with my 6 week old baby on a 7 hour flight.  Then when he was 3 months old I traveled with him for 4 hours.  At this stage, he just needed me to talk to him a lot.  He didn't scream at all because I made sure to give him a lot of attention and I rocked him to sleep so he would take lots of naps.  I didn't even care if he was asleep for 5 minutes, at least he was asleep!  

Also, if your flight leaves in the afternoon, like most international flights do, your baby will probably want to sleep a lot since it will be night time for him.  I have to travel with my 5 month old in a few weeks and we leave at 7:30 pm so I'm hoping he'll knock out and sleep most of the way.  Hopefully this works for you!

Keep lots of snacks with you.  Kids usually are happy when they're eating! Haha