How to enjoy flying with baby

Daddy T joked that it looked like I was going backpacking when we boarded the flight to Tampa last Sunday. And I’m not a backpacking type of person. But this time I was perfectly fine with my new image. It was all for Baby Girl.

We had received a SkyBaby bed for free to test, and the little bed looks like a tiny sleeping bag when it’s in its cover. It has a clip and can easily be attached to another bag, so I had the compact bed hanging from my Anya Hindmarch changing bag.

As soon as we had boarded though, we took it out and put Baby Girl on the padded bed, which is designed to make it easier and more comfortable to travel with young babies when they have to sleep in a parent’s lap.

It worked. It was my fifth trip with Baby Girl, and it freed up my arms, which made the flight much more enjoyable. Instead of using my arm as a cushion, Baby Girl was on the comfy bed in my lap with the seat belt strapped around the SkyBaby wings that fold around baby’s tummy. This meant the seat belt didn’t have to touch her clothes either.

She seemed to love flying on her new bed. She slept for two and a half hours straight at lunchtime. I moved her to the bassinet provided onboard a few times, but the seat belt sign was on and off several times, meaning she had to be in my lap and SkyBaby made it very easy to move a sleeping Baby Girl from the bassinet to the lap and back to the bassinet again.

And it looks like we’ll be using BabyGirl’s on-the go bed a lot now. She did so well that Daddy T, who was worried about the nine-hour long flight to Tampa with a refluxy Baby Girl, is now eager to go on more trips. What a star.

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