Speaker 1: What up friends? Okay, this midweek mom chat is on
Speaker 1: traveling with your baby. Traveling with your baby because oh
Speaker 1: my god, I had so mattress. I wanted to cry.
Speaker 1: Oh I did cry. Wait, Um, because I have anxiety
Speaker 1: about everything because I'm a new mom and I've just
Speaker 1: started to realize that I am not one of those
Speaker 1: cool new moms. It's just so chill and nothing bothers me.
Speaker 1: And my baby can be around tons of sick kids
Speaker 1: and airplanes full of people coughing and grab food off
Speaker 1: the floor and eat it although she's not eating food,
Speaker 1: she's still only eating milk, but and not stress about it. Like, No,
Speaker 1: I'm the one who goes on an airplane and my
Speaker 1: kid gets around people sneezing, and she shows up around
Speaker 1: a sick kid and I call my pediutrition crying because
Speaker 1: I am spazzing, going to worst case scenarios and freaking out.
Speaker 1: And I hate that I am that way because it
Speaker 1: creates so much anxiety in me. Um, But I am.
Speaker 1: And I will tell you every step forward I have
Speaker 1: taken with Sonny, like this first travel experience, that's so
Speaker 1: much anxiety about what to pack for her, getting her
Speaker 1: how are we going to travel through the airport. How
Speaker 1: we're gonna sit in the plane? Is she going to
Speaker 1: cry the whole time? Or her ear is gonna hurt?
Speaker 1: Do I have all the things that she needs so
Speaker 1: she doesn't lose it? And if she does lose it,
Speaker 1: will I'd be able to calm her down? And um,
Speaker 1: what if she has a blowout a poop blow out?
Speaker 1: Oh wait, she did. She pooped through her entire onesie,
Speaker 1: biggest poop explosion she's ever had at the airport. It
Speaker 1: was funny though, you know, it's great, had a change
Speaker 1: of clothes, awesome, Everything's fine, you know what, It was
Speaker 1: all fine because what I've realized is the more you
Speaker 1: can just do things. Oh and then also like I've
Speaker 1: been on the strict schedule because she's been sleeping through
Speaker 1: the night, and all of a sudden, now we're gonna
Speaker 1: beach traveling in airplanes and cars and different time frames
Speaker 1: and she can't get her naps in and what if
Speaker 1: she doesn't get her full nap and what she isn't
Speaker 1: going to is she gonna stop sleeping in the night.
Speaker 1: Is she going to be crying all the time? Is
Speaker 1: it going to be a disaster? All that stuff. Control, control, control,
Speaker 1: control is what I'm screaming. I need control, I need control.
Speaker 1: I need control. Give me control. But you can't have
Speaker 1: control all the time if you're going to get involved
Speaker 1: in life. So that's where we are getting involved in life.
Speaker 1: We had the first three months where I feel like
Speaker 1: we kind of post it up, hit hit away in
Speaker 1: the house. Started creeping out slowly around a month two
Speaker 1: and you know, getting more in the car, going places
Speaker 1: every now and then, but still trying to stay very
Speaker 1: strict on the map, on the nap schedule, not really
Speaker 1: going too many places. Wanted her to be home for
Speaker 1: her bedtime at seven thirty, get a bath every night. Um.
Speaker 1: But when you're traveling and going to see family and
Speaker 1: going on planes and going to do whatever you need
Speaker 1: to do. And obviously even if you have other kids,
Speaker 1: like I just have one kid, so I can keep
Speaker 1: her on a schedule pretty much, But if you have
Speaker 1: other kids, you can't keep your kids on schedule because
Speaker 1: they've got practices, they gotta go to, they gotta pick
Speaker 1: them up from school, they have all sorts of things
Speaker 1: that are happening in their lives. And what are you
Speaker 1: gonna do leave your baby at home? While you go
Speaker 1: get your kids from school. No, you're gonna throw your
Speaker 1: baby in the car and they're gonna come with you.
Speaker 1: And that's just the way it's gonna be, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna figure out how to adjust. So anyway, this was
Speaker 1: such a good trip for me. Michael and Sonny did amazing.
Speaker 1: They were perfect. I was a wreck the whole time.
Speaker 1: Uh well, for the beginning of it, and then by
Speaker 1: the end of it, I had totally relaxed. So I
Speaker 1: made a list of everything that Sunny needs to travel.
Speaker 1: And I know you'll all are going to ask me
Speaker 1: for this list, So I am going to post this
Speaker 1: up on the Instant Stories right now and I'm going
Speaker 1: to put it on my um highlight reel under Sunny.
Speaker 1: So if you want to find this travel list, it
Speaker 1: will be on my highlight reel under Sunny. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you are gonna probably all send me messages, where's the list,
Speaker 1: where's the list? That's where it is all my highlight
Speaker 1: reel under Sunny. So I put here's what I traveled with,
Speaker 1: and honestly, I feel like I kind of nailed it
Speaker 1: with packing for her. You have to have some sort
Speaker 1: of certificate that shows who they are. So we had
Speaker 1: our vaccine report and then we packed our stroller and
Speaker 1: our car seat, and we packed our base also because
Speaker 1: we knew we're gonna be driving in the car a lot,
Speaker 1: and with the stroller system that we have, we have
Speaker 1: the upper baby. You don't have to have a base.
Speaker 1: You can just attach the car seat without the base,
Speaker 1: but we don't want to do that since we're gonna
Speaker 1: be in the car so much. We packed the base
Speaker 1: and we checked the base, and then we put her
Speaker 1: in her car seat, and then we put that in
Speaker 1: the rolling stroller part and we push that through um
Speaker 1: the airport, and then we took the car seat out.
Speaker 1: We got to the plane and we gate checked the
Speaker 1: stroller park like the rolling part, and we just carried
Speaker 1: the car seat on. And if the plane is not full,
Speaker 1: which we were playing Southwest, we just put the car
Speaker 1: seat in the in the seat next to You have
Speaker 1: to put it by the aisle. I didn't know that
Speaker 1: you gotta put me in by the window. You gotta
Speaker 1: put the car seat by the window. But the plan
Speaker 1: is not full, then just put your baby in the
Speaker 1: car seat and put it by the window. And I
Speaker 1: promise you nobody is going to want to sit by
Speaker 1: you anyway. And so if there's an open seat, just
Speaker 1: put your baby's car seat there, because who wants to
Speaker 1: sit by If you have an option to sit anywhere
Speaker 1: other than next to baby, you're going to So people
Speaker 1: aren't going to sit there anyway. So I did not
Speaker 1: feel bad having an extra seat when the plane wasn't full. Um.
Speaker 1: So that's what we did. So we get checked our
Speaker 1: stroller and just carried the car seat on and it
Speaker 1: was great. And then we we check checked the base
Speaker 1: and we got a baggage claim and that was great. Um.
Speaker 1: And then I packed her monitor her sound machine. I
Speaker 1: am religious about putting her outlet her foot which monitors
Speaker 1: her breathing and heart rate. Oh that's just a little
Speaker 1: super obsessive mommy thing that I do. You don't have
Speaker 1: to have an outlet. They are kind of pricey. They're
Speaker 1: like almost four dollars, I think, But to me, that
Speaker 1: was one of the greatest purchases and gifts that I
Speaker 1: have gotten because it gives me peace of mind. I
Speaker 1: can look at it her her breathing and her um
Speaker 1: heart rate on my phone. And there is also this
Speaker 1: green base light that when it's green she's breathing well,
Speaker 1: everything is normal, and if it if something goes wrong,
Speaker 1: a big red alarm goes off. And so it just
Speaker 1: gives me a peace of mind to be able to
Speaker 1: go to sleep because I have such a hard time sleeping.
Speaker 1: I would have such a hard time sleeping if I
Speaker 1: didn't know that there was something that would wake me
Speaker 1: up if something went wrong with her breathing. And obviously
Speaker 1: it's a machine, and not everything is, but it gives
Speaker 1: me a lot of piece of mine. So we packed
Speaker 1: the monitor, the sound machine, the outlet, the pack and
Speaker 1: play um, and then I didn't pack her play mat.
Speaker 1: I just packed a blanket and then I packed her
Speaker 1: She has this little elephant that sings a little song
Speaker 1: and lights up that's on the play mat, so I
Speaker 1: packed that, and then I packed this mirror that she
Speaker 1: likes to look at, and I packed a few toys
Speaker 1: and I didn't actually pack the full play matt, but
Speaker 1: it worked fine. I just laid a blanket down and
Speaker 1: put off her little toys around and it's great. We're
Speaker 1: great for play mat. I packed swaddle burt cloths, onesies, um,
Speaker 1: like I said, blankets, a towel for bath. Although we
Speaker 1: didn't give her but one bath in five days because
Speaker 1: it was just too hard to give her a bath. Um,
Speaker 1: but like baths, soap, lotion, brush, if you want to
Speaker 1: brush your baby's hair, but me, you don't really need to.
Speaker 1: Then I packed my pump, my pump bra um which
Speaker 1: I use Simple Wishes. A lot of you guys asked
Speaker 1: which pump bra I use. I use Simple Wishes. I
Speaker 1: packed my milk bottles and caps I packed. I think
Speaker 1: I packed four and I think I packed five bottles,
Speaker 1: and I think that was the right amount for me,
Speaker 1: about five bottles UM. And then I packed my pump parts.
Speaker 1: I packed one bag of frozen milk because I wasn't
Speaker 1: sure how my supply was going to hold up, and
Speaker 1: it held up great. And then I brought a full
Speaker 1: bottle with me for the plane. And then I packed
Speaker 1: um a bottle warmer and then a sponge washer to
Speaker 1: wash all the bottles off, and then bottle soap, and
Speaker 1: then diapers and wipes, and it was great. That was
Speaker 1: everything we needed. What I carried on on the plane
Speaker 1: was her stroller and then my obviously my baby bag,
Speaker 1: which had an extra change of an extra onesie for her.
Speaker 1: It had diapers, it has her PASSI, it has a
Speaker 1: few little teething toys in there, um wipes, it has
Speaker 1: um I have this, so gott I have it. I
Speaker 1: have a like a a waterproof wet bag or something.
Speaker 1: I don't know what exactly what it's called, but it's
Speaker 1: like it zips up and you can put anything wet
Speaker 1: in there and it won't leak out. And I'm so
Speaker 1: glad I did because she had a blowout poop explosion
Speaker 1: at the airport and her clothes were drenched. If you
Speaker 1: look at my instagram you can see it completely drenched
Speaker 1: and poop and it was hilarious, and I went I
Speaker 1: had to go changer in the changing station, which I
Speaker 1: also have a changing pad, like one of those portable
Speaker 1: ones that you can lay out on top of stuff
Speaker 1: and you can change your baby anywhere. It's like it
Speaker 1: folds up and you can travel with it. And I'm
Speaker 1: so glad I did, because the changing station in the
Speaker 1: bathroom was disgusting and there was like white, flaky, crusty
Speaker 1: stuff all over. It made me throw up. But what
Speaker 1: do you do? You have no options? So I laid
Speaker 1: down the changing pad and then I changed her blowout onesie,
Speaker 1: and then I um put the changing pad and the
Speaker 1: onesie in the wet bag when I was done with it,
Speaker 1: and zipped it up, so it was like all that gross, disgusting,
Speaker 1: pooping contaminated pad was now zipped up in this wet
Speaker 1: bags that didn't have to get on all the other
Speaker 1: clean stuff. And then I packed a blanket in my carry,
Speaker 1: like a little um barefoot dreams blanket in my baby bag,
Speaker 1: because in case she got cold, or I could put
Speaker 1: it over her um car seat when we're sleeping in
Speaker 1: the car if she needs a little darkness to make
Speaker 1: it a little dark. And then I had a portable
Speaker 1: sound machine, just like a little portable sound machine that
Speaker 1: is battery operated, that I tied onto her car seat
Speaker 1: and actually leave that on her car seat all the time,
Speaker 1: and that helps calmer down and helps her to go
Speaker 1: to sleep. So I had that as well, and that
Speaker 1: is pretty much all that we packed. Oh and I
Speaker 1: have one of those um it's like a car seat cover.
Speaker 1: It's you put it over your car seat. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it's called, and it like it fits perfectly
Speaker 1: over your car seat and it kind of makes it
Speaker 1: just like a turtle shell. Covers the baby and it
Speaker 1: just makes it like a little cocoon in there, and
Speaker 1: I put that over there so it protects her from
Speaker 1: germs in the airport, I mean more than not having it.
Speaker 1: And it also keeps the light out. So that was
Speaker 1: what I packed, and I felt like it was great.
Speaker 1: I carried on a full bottle, so I fed her
Speaker 1: right before we went, and she had a full meal
Speaker 1: right before we got on the plane, and then I
Speaker 1: fed her. I think I fed her at the airport
Speaker 1: and on the plane. And a tip that I learned
Speaker 1: was Sonny amazingly doesn't have sensitive ears like her ears
Speaker 1: did not get stopped up, and she didn't like cry,
Speaker 1: because that's why babies cry is because the pressure taking
Speaker 1: off and landing really hurts her ears. Sonny's didn't, and
Speaker 1: so I'm so thankful for that. But a tip is
Speaker 1: breastfeed or bottle feed your baby during takeoff and landing
Speaker 1: because that keeps their mouth moving and pops their ears
Speaker 1: for them. And so we did do that the first
Speaker 1: flight and she was fine, and then I didn't do
Speaker 1: it coming landing because she was asleep in my arms
Speaker 1: and I just didn't want to wake her up, and
Speaker 1: she slept right through it. And then the flight home,
Speaker 1: we didn't even I didn't put a bottle in her mouth,
Speaker 1: and we took off and she was fine. And I
Speaker 1: didn't put a bottle in her mouth and we landed
Speaker 1: and she was fine. But that is a tip that
Speaker 1: a bunch of my mom friends have told me, So
Speaker 1: if your baby has sensitive ears, definitely breastfeed or bottle
Speaker 1: feed takeoff and landing. So then we got in the
Speaker 1: car and we got off our luggage and Sunny ended
Speaker 1: up just like napping where she could and it was fine.
Speaker 1: She did fine in the car. She might have gotten
Speaker 1: a little fussy, like trying to get comfortable in her
Speaker 1: car seat because she has not really been in a
Speaker 1: car seat that much because she hasn't crazy o c
Speaker 1: D mom that doesn't leave the house. Um, but she
Speaker 1: did great. And what I realized I had some big
Speaker 1: revelations on this trip is that babies can't We'll get
Speaker 1: if they're hungry, they're gonna let you know and they're
Speaker 1: gonna eat. And if they're tired, they're going to close
Speaker 1: their eyes and they're going to take a nap. And
Speaker 1: so she got her naps whenever she could in the car,
Speaker 1: or if we were home at my sister and brother
Speaker 1: in law's house, I put her in the in her
Speaker 1: little pack and play and she'd take a nap there.
Speaker 1: But like I just didn't stress out about it too much.
Speaker 1: The only thing that I made sure I did do
Speaker 1: was she eats five bottles a day of six ounces.
Speaker 1: I breastfeed her in the morning. So a bunch of
Speaker 1: you guys asked if I'm still breastfeeding. I am breastfeeding
Speaker 1: one time, and I breastfeed in the morning at seven
Speaker 1: when she wakes up, I will breastfeed her until she
Speaker 1: doesn't want a breastfeed, which is normally like ten minutes.
Speaker 1: She'll breastfeed and then I top her off with a bottle,
Speaker 1: and so she'll normally take like three or four ounces
Speaker 1: after she finishes breastfeeding so high. That lets me know
Speaker 1: that she's getting about three ounces breastfeeding, and so then
Speaker 1: the rest she'll get on the bottle. So the only
Speaker 1: thing that was important to me when we were traveling
Speaker 1: was that she got her five bottles of six ounces,
Speaker 1: because that is how your baby grows, That is how
Speaker 1: your baby stays not fussy, that is how your baby
Speaker 1: sleeps through the night. Is getting all of their milk
Speaker 1: that they need well, in my opinion, getting all all
Speaker 1: their milk that they need. So I just gauged everything
Speaker 1: off of her five bottles. I was like, Okay, we're
Speaker 1: gonna try to get the naps when we could. I
Speaker 1: tried to get that first nap if I could, because
Speaker 1: her first nap is two hours long, so she ends
Speaker 1: up sleeping five hours a day. If she's on a schedule,
Speaker 1: she'll wake up at seven, have a bottle, go back
Speaker 1: to sleep around eight thirty, and then she'll normally sleep
Speaker 1: like two hours, and then she'll wake up again and
Speaker 1: have another bottle, and then she'll go down to sleep
Speaker 1: for two more hours, usually from like one thirty to
Speaker 1: three thirty, and then she'll wake up and then we'll
Speaker 1: have another bottle, and then she'll take a quick little nap,
Speaker 1: maybe around like forty five, a quick little forty five
Speaker 1: minute or hour nap, and then she'll have another bottle,
Speaker 1: and then I'll give her bath and get her ready
Speaker 1: for bed, and then she'll have one more bottle around
Speaker 1: like six thirty before she goes to sleep between seven
Speaker 1: and seven thirty. So my goal was every day just
Speaker 1: make sure she gets those five bottles around the same
Speaker 1: time that she normally would beginning them whether or not
Speaker 1: we've had our good naps, and then I would try
Speaker 1: to get that first big morning nap in, which was
Speaker 1: like two hour hours, try to get that one, and
Speaker 1: then the rest of them. I just let her grab
Speaker 1: naps wherever we could. One of them, I was at
Speaker 1: my mother in law's house and I just had to
Speaker 1: hold her for forty five minutes in my arms because
Speaker 1: we were hanging out talking on the couch and that's
Speaker 1: where she napped. Another one was in a car when
Speaker 1: we're driving to go see another family for him. Another
Speaker 1: one was, uh, just usually they're in the car or
Speaker 1: on an airplane, Like she grabbed a quick one on
Speaker 1: the airplane when we were flying because it was an
Speaker 1: hour flight. So it's just like I just let go
Speaker 1: of the control of the naps and let her try
Speaker 1: to nap where she could. And I realized that like
Speaker 1: she normally naps five hours a day, two naps or
Speaker 1: two hours each and then she has a quick hour
Speaker 1: nap or forty five minute nap in afternoon, So if
Speaker 1: I could get hers close to napping five hours a day. However,
Speaker 1: she got those That was also how I viewed it.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, however she needs to get these
Speaker 1: five hours. Great, If she only gets four hours today,
Speaker 1: that's fine, we'll go to bed a little bit earlier.
Speaker 1: Like I just didn't stress out too much about it.
Speaker 1: So that's how I viewed it. Five bottles a day
Speaker 1: of six sounds. I made sure she got those all day,
Speaker 1: and then if I could get that big morning nap,
Speaker 1: I went. I was super happy about that. If I couldn't,
Speaker 1: then I just realized that if she could get us
Speaker 1: close to sleeping five hours, however she had to get
Speaker 1: it in the day, then that's just how it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: And you know what, Sunny was a champ. She was great.
Speaker 1: She did amazing. I had so much control issues and
Speaker 1: so much stress. But finally, by like day three, and
Speaker 1: thankfully we're with our family, Michael's brother and his wife
Speaker 1: and their five kids, and they're so laid back because
Speaker 1: I mean, they have five kids. Come on, they're not stressed.
Speaker 1: You can't be super stressed and o c D when
Speaker 1: you have five kids, because life is happening at that point.
Speaker 1: And so it was really good for me to just
Speaker 1: be thrown into the mix of life, traveling all the things,
Speaker 1: letting go of control and realizing how resilient Sunny is.
Speaker 1: She was on the airplane around six people coughing. She
Speaker 1: was fine. My sister in law had two kids who
Speaker 1: are actually getting over being having cold. Of course, was
Speaker 1: freaking out about that. They were fine. We just kept
Speaker 1: Sunny at a healthy distance away from the kids. But
Speaker 1: it's like, really, can you So I was freaking out.
Speaker 1: Called my pediatrician like, oh my gosh, she's gonna be
Speaker 1: on an airplane. My nieces and nephews are coming off
Speaker 1: a cold, Like I'm freaking out. What do we do?
Speaker 1: What do we do? And he's like, calm down so
Speaker 1: many women in the nicest way, he was like helping
Speaker 1: ease my pain. He's the best. He's the greatest pediatrician
Speaker 1: ever episode. Thankful for him. Um. He was like, so
Speaker 1: many women at Sunny's at the point in Sunny's life
Speaker 1: are working a friend of job where they can't work
Speaker 1: from home, and so they have to take their kids
Speaker 1: to daycare and the kids are exposed to everything at
Speaker 1: daycare and he's like, it's honestly, it's good for their
Speaker 1: immunity to start building up and being exposed to germs.
Speaker 1: It's not a bad thing. Every kid is going to
Speaker 1: get sick. It's gonna be fine, Like, just don't worry.
Speaker 1: And so that was great to me to realize that
Speaker 1: it's good for kids to be around germs. It's good
Speaker 1: to build the immune system. Every kid is going to
Speaker 1: be sick. I don't have to go to this worst
Speaker 1: case scenario that everything is just going to be like,
Speaker 1: it's not going to be as dramatic as I make it.
Speaker 1: I just like, you hear about everything that happens on
Speaker 1: the news, you know, like you see on social media
Speaker 1: and you see on the news, and you hear all
Speaker 1: these terrible things that can go wrong, and so when
Speaker 1: they're all in your head and you're an O, C
Speaker 1: D worried mother, you can't help but just like think
Speaker 1: about everything that could possibly happen, but you just can't
Speaker 1: stress about it. I mean, you have to be responsible,
Speaker 1: but then you have to let it go, you know.
Speaker 1: And so that is what I learned on this trip.
Speaker 1: I learned that kids are resilient and that it is
Speaker 1: really great to get out in the world and to
Speaker 1: just not worry, not swept the small stuff like work
Speaker 1: as hard as you can to keep them on the schedule,
Speaker 1: give them the food that they need, but then just
Speaker 1: let the rest flow. Okay, you guys, I'm I took
Speaker 1: a quick break. I don't know that. I just put
Speaker 1: it on pause and I went and picked up Sunny.
Speaker 1: So if you hear a little baby scream, um, it's
Speaker 1: Sunny because she's joining me now. So here are some
Speaker 1: questions that you guys have asked me about traveling with
Speaker 1: a baby. So I'm just gonna run through some of them.
Speaker 1: Like you know, I might have already answered some of
Speaker 1: these just by rambling, but I'll just hit him up
Speaker 1: again briefly so I can make sure I cover all
Speaker 1: your questions. Yeah, Sunny, you've got something to say. Okay,
Speaker 1: what does it must have while packing a bag for
Speaker 1: a baby? Um, I read you off my list, so
Speaker 1: I honestly think all of them. Your bottles, your pump,
Speaker 1: your pack and play, UM, your sound machine pretty much.
Speaker 1: I feel like every diaper's pretty much everything that I
Speaker 1: listened in that UM I read off earlier. I think
Speaker 1: you need but for the airplane, change of clothes for sure,
Speaker 1: for your baby diapers, extra breast milk or formula, whatever
Speaker 1: you're using um wipes toys to distract them. Um or
Speaker 1: must passy um. Okay, do you nurse some public baby
Speaker 1: three month old refuses a bottle, I get nervous to feed,
Speaker 1: even with a covered girl. You rock that nursing in public.
Speaker 1: Sonny takes a bottle better. And like I said earlier,
Speaker 1: I only breastfeed her in the mornings now just because
Speaker 1: that's what works for us. But if I was breastfeeding Sunny,
Speaker 1: I would for sure nurse in public. Actually, for one
Speaker 1: of the airplane rides, she wouldn't take the bottle and
Speaker 1: she was crying a little bit, and so I busted
Speaker 1: out my boob in the middle of the airplane and
Speaker 1: tried a breastfeed her. She didn't want it, but I
Speaker 1: offered it to her with no shame in that game.
Speaker 1: When your baby is hungry and needs to feed, you
Speaker 1: bust your boobs out, And if somebody has a problem
Speaker 1: with it, I am sorry. I am one of those
Speaker 1: people that is like, you can just go off by
Speaker 1: yourself because nobody got time for that. You're feeding your child.
Speaker 1: That is the most beautiful thing you can do for
Speaker 1: your child, and if people have a problem with it,
Speaker 1: then move along. I literally have no um. I understand
Speaker 1: like in the past, maybe women it wasn't quite as open,
Speaker 1: or we weren't in a time where women were women
Speaker 1: felt like they had to be more put I don't know,
Speaker 1: perfect or things you couldn't show the truth about being
Speaker 1: a mother you had to like I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: even know what I'm trying to say. But like this
Speaker 1: day and age, I feel like we were in such
Speaker 1: a beautiful time because we get to fully embrace all
Speaker 1: that is being a mom and we don't have to
Speaker 1: put on a front that everything is perfect. We don't
Speaker 1: have to act like relieve it to beaver um just
Speaker 1: like the strand of pearls and a petticoat on, Like
Speaker 1: we can show ourselves and our friends and our and
Speaker 1: and live in this world and really be authentic. And
Speaker 1: breast eating is beautiful And if people have a problem
Speaker 1: with it, just I just can't handle it. I cannot
Speaker 1: handle it. So breastfeed in public. If you feel more
Speaker 1: comfortable putting a cover on, put her cover on, but
Speaker 1: do not go hide yourself to feature child and stress
Speaker 1: yourself out even more. Just do it right there in public.
Speaker 1: If you need to go to a little corner or
Speaker 1: something you feel more comfortable having a little more privacy
Speaker 1: to do that. But yes, do not even have shame
Speaker 1: in that. I put my boob out right in the
Speaker 1: middle of the plane, didn't even care. Um, did you
Speaker 1: pump and dump if I had any extra or did
Speaker 1: you fly back with milk? Great question, And you can
Speaker 1: fly with all the breast milk that you can carry on.
Speaker 1: I had so much extra milk traveling back, and you
Speaker 1: know that's liquid gold. I just put it all a
Speaker 1: little three ounce containers. I think you can put like
Speaker 1: three point five ounce containers and carry those on. I
Speaker 1: carried on like six of them, so I just carried
Speaker 1: them all. They carried them all on. They put them
Speaker 1: through like a little screening tests, Like they don't take
Speaker 1: the lids off or anything. They just put them in
Speaker 1: like a machine to test to make sure there's no
Speaker 1: like bombs or something in it. But I carried like
Speaker 1: six bottles on and it was great. So do not
Speaker 1: dump that stuff. Keep it, keep it, keep it, keep it, kid,
Speaker 1: keep it. Um, what did you do to help equalize
Speaker 1: the pressure in her ears? Um? Like I told you
Speaker 1: do the breastfeeding, either breastfeed or bottle your baby when
Speaker 1: you're taking off the landing for the pressure, and apparently
Speaker 1: that helps Sonny was I was lucky and Sunny didn't
Speaker 1: have that. But that is definitely, um what all my
Speaker 1: friends hey to do. So that is my suggestion. Is
Speaker 1: traveling with a baby better or worse than you thought?
Speaker 1: It would be better? Way better. I was really stressed
Speaker 1: out and I thought it was just going to be
Speaker 1: a disaster, and I was so nervous, and I had
Speaker 1: all these I just went through all the what IF's,
Speaker 1: what can happen? Is she gonna lose her mind? And
Speaker 1: you know what, she did great. It was so much better.
Speaker 1: I just was prepared, like I packed all my packed
Speaker 1: everything she needed. Um. I tried to keep her on
Speaker 1: her schedule as much as I could, but let her
Speaker 1: take her naps where else where she could grab them
Speaker 1: and she did awesome, and just always set enough milk
Speaker 1: with me and fed her. I kept her on her
Speaker 1: feeding schedule pretty much like I said before, a feder
Speaker 1: of the five bottles throughout the day on the same
Speaker 1: kind of schedule. But it was fine. It went great.
Speaker 1: It was so much better than I thought. How do
Speaker 1: you minimize packing with a baby, and how do you keep,
Speaker 1: do you keep them on your schedule or do you
Speaker 1: wing it? Um? I I don't know if you can
Speaker 1: truly minimize packing, because you kind of need all this stuff,
Speaker 1: Like you need the sound machine, you need UM, your
Speaker 1: packing play you need all their onesies, you need all
Speaker 1: your bottles, you need your pump, you need UM the stroller,
Speaker 1: you need the car seat UM you need. I think
Speaker 1: you could leave your drying rack at home, like that
Speaker 1: little grass pad thing that a lot of us used
Speaker 1: to dry, and you could just dry with paper towels,
Speaker 1: like let them air drown paper towels. UM. I think
Speaker 1: you could probably leave your play man at home like
Speaker 1: I did, and just bring um a little toys and
Speaker 1: use a blanket. But overall, I feel like I pretty
Speaker 1: much packed a big bag and I put everything of
Speaker 1: hers in it, and I needed everything I packed. I
Speaker 1: was glad that I packed everything because I felt way
Speaker 1: more comfortable being prepared and knowing that I had everything
Speaker 1: she needed, as opposed to feeling like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: now I'm stressed out because I don't have what she needs.
Speaker 1: So I liked being prepared, and I just decided to
Speaker 1: pack a big bag and put everything in it. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I'll put that list up on my
Speaker 1: UM highlight reel under sunny so you can see what
Speaker 1: I packed. UM and then keeping the baby on the schedule.
Speaker 1: Like I said before, I tried if I could get
Speaker 1: her naps to fall, um, if I could get that
Speaker 1: big two hour nap when at home at my cousin,
Speaker 1: my sister in law and brother in law's house. I
Speaker 1: would try to get her that first big two hour nap,
Speaker 1: then try to wing the rest of them. But when
Speaker 1: on the travel days, she would just sleep where she
Speaker 1: could get them. Sometimes it would be like forty five
Speaker 1: minutes here and there, and I would try to just
Speaker 1: make sure her naps added up to like five hours
Speaker 1: in the day or four or five hours. But the
Speaker 1: thing is, if your baby's exhausted, they're going to go
Speaker 1: to sleep, They're gonna fall asleep. So I realized it
Speaker 1: actually did not mess up her schedule for sleeping through
Speaker 1: the night like I thought. That's what I was worried about,
Speaker 1: was that she wasn't going to sleep through the night.
Speaker 1: And she slept through the night right and it went great,
Speaker 1: and she did she traveled great, and so overall, I
Speaker 1: just think do the best you can stay on the
Speaker 1: schedule as best as you can. UM. Just make sure
Speaker 1: you get your feedings, do your feedings, UM whenever, like
Speaker 1: however much you feed your baby, make sure you stick
Speaker 1: with that. But then just grab the naps when you
Speaker 1: can and let her, let her rock, and then I'll
Speaker 1: end with this one was the biggest challenge for me.
Speaker 1: The biggest challenge is myself, which is usually how it
Speaker 1: goes in my life. I had to get over my
Speaker 1: fear of everything, the fear of her getting sick, fear
Speaker 1: of her missing her naps, fear of her not sleeping
Speaker 1: in the night, fear of her being fussy, fear of
Speaker 1: her being unhappy, fear of and just being a ship show,
Speaker 1: which it was. She should her pants at the airport
Speaker 1: like crazy. Just fear I had, fear of everything that
Speaker 1: could go wrong, was just running through my head over
Speaker 1: and over again. And I think realizing that she is
Speaker 1: so much more adaptable than I thought she was, that
Speaker 1: she is so much um more resilient than I thought
Speaker 1: she was. That I don't have to have everything perfect,
Speaker 1: and if it's not on a perfect schedule, and if
Speaker 1: everything if she's not in a perfectly sterilized environment, and
Speaker 1: all the things. If everything is not perfect, she's still
Speaker 1: going to be a happy baby. She's still gonna be
Speaker 1: rocking and rolling, and she doesn't know any different. And
Speaker 1: I don't have to stress out about it like I
Speaker 1: thought I did, because I thought, if it's not all
Speaker 1: put together, if everything is not perfect, I don't stand
Speaker 1: the schedule, it's all gonna fall apart, and it just
Speaker 1: it just doesn't. Babies are resilient and they rock. And
Speaker 1: I think the biggest lesson I learned on this trip
Speaker 1: was that I don't have to be so stressed out
Speaker 1: and I can let go of control. Yes, keep your
Speaker 1: baby on a schedule as best you can when you're
Speaker 1: at home, and there's no reason not to be on
Speaker 1: a schedule. But if you need to get involved with
Speaker 1: life and do stuff and get out there and get
Speaker 1: her off her schedule, then it's okay. It's gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: And that was a big eye opening thing for me,
Speaker 1: is that it's going to be fine, and that's Sunny
Speaker 1: is so much more resilient than I am, Like she
Speaker 1: rocked this thing. I was one of those a stress bucket,
Speaker 1: but she was great, and so that was great. So
Speaker 1: I hope this podcast helped. I hope I answered your questions.
Speaker 1: I don't like always when I get into these, I
Speaker 1: have no idea what I've even said, So I hope
Speaker 1: this was helpful. Um, overall, I would just say, prepare yourself.
Speaker 1: Pack what you pack, everything that you think you need.
Speaker 1: Um pack a good carry on bag with milk, diapers,
Speaker 1: changing changing pad, extra clothes, toys, passy your car seat,
Speaker 1: all of the stuff that you need to carry on
Speaker 1: and then just let it rock. And if your baby
Speaker 1: cries on the plane, your baby cries on the plane,
Speaker 1: if someone has a problem with it. The same thing
Speaker 1: with like breastfeeding in public, we don't have time for
Speaker 1: those kind of people because that's not life. We're in
Speaker 1: real life here. Okay, we are doing the best we can.
Speaker 1: We are loving our children, we are trying to do
Speaker 1: our jobs, support our families, do all the things we
Speaker 1: needed you and you're bringing your baby. Your baby's coming along.
Speaker 1: Your baby is a part of your life. And so
Speaker 1: if your baby cries on a plane, or if you
Speaker 1: need a breastfeed in public and someone has a problem
Speaker 1: with it, then you just we just have to not
Speaker 1: even acknowledge those people, because, like I said, we don't
Speaker 1: have time for that. We're we're living our lives and
Speaker 1: doing the best we can, and we are honestly super
Speaker 1: women women mama's. We are crushing it. And I think
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of all of us, so proud that
Speaker 1: we're all sticking together. And I love having these mom
Speaker 1: chats and I, oh, yes, ma'am study and I love
Speaker 1: sharing information. I love all y'all's questions, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: always just try to answer as honestly as I personally can. I,
Speaker 1: of course I don't know anything. I'm learning this on
Speaker 1: the go, So I love that we can be in
Speaker 1: this community together. And um, I hope, I hope this helped.
Speaker 1: I hope your travel experiences go well and happy happy holidays.
Speaker 1: Much love to you all,