{"id":1847,"date":"2011-03-31T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/31\/things-i-learned-about-travelling-with-a-baby"},"modified":"2011-03-31T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T15:22:00","slug":"things-i-learned-about-travelling-with-a-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2011\/03\/31\/things-i-learned-about-travelling-with-a-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I learned about travelling with a baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Take the time to count your daily diaper usage for a few days before your trip.\u00a0 We could have halved the number of diapers we took.<\/li>\n<li>Apparently the TSA has to check one of each KIND of baby food puree you bring through.\u00a0 Our DIA guy was nice and told us he would check only one out of three kinds (Beechnut jars, Gerber tubs, and an individual applesauce cup). We also could have checked all but one jar for the flight, but we were keeping the food together.<\/li>\n<li>If you are lucky enough to get a seat for your baby, use it with the carseat facing forward.\u00a0 We did rear-facing on the way out.\u00a0 Although it was nice to have Jack facing me, his car seat was very upright and we were still restricting the chair in front of him.\u00a0 On the way home we put it front facing.\u00a0 He had a lot of room to recline and no one in front or behind him was restricted.\u00a0 With the cramped upright seat to Boston he slept 45 minutes, with lots of head lolling and furrowed brows.\u00a0 With the reclined seat to Denver he slept 2.5 hours with that blissful pale baby face.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>We need to teach Jack to drink with a straw.\u00a0 That&#8217;s how restaurants serve him water, and it would be so much neater than his sip and spit method from a cup.<\/li>\n<li>When you have two sleep sacks and one has been used for a week and one has been freshly laundered, take the dirty one.\u00a0 We took the clean one.\u00a0 Not sure if it would have made a big difference, but he was pretty freaked out about the strange room and strange crib.\u00a0 A familiar scent on his blanket could have been soothing.<\/li>\n<li>We need to teach Jack to leave place mats and plates alone.\u00a0 We cleared his table space like we do at home when we ate out.\u00a0 It&#8217;s works, but I felt embarrassed for the mess he leaves on the table.\u00a0 <\/li>\n<li>Umbrella strollers rock for travel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take the time to count your daily diaper usage for a few days before your trip.\u00a0 We could have halved the number of diapers we took. Apparently the TSA has to check one of each KIND of baby food puree you bring through.\u00a0 Our DIA guy was nice and told us he would check only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}