WEBVTT - Mid-Week Mom Chat: Traveling w a baby! 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:04.160 What up friends? Okay, this midweek mom chat is on 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:09.440 traveling with your baby. Traveling with your baby because oh 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:12.760 my god, I had so mattress. I wanted to cry. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:19.040 Oh I did cry. Wait, Um, because I have anxiety 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:21.959 about everything because I'm a new mom and I've just 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:25.000 started to realize that I am not one of those 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:29.440 cool new moms. It's just so chill and nothing bothers me. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.760 And my baby can be around tons of sick kids 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:37.840 and airplanes full of people coughing and grab food off 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.800 the floor and eat it although she's not eating food, 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.800 she's still only eating milk, but and not stress about it. Like, No, 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.000 I'm the one who goes on an airplane and my 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.519 kid gets around people sneezing, and she shows up around 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.400 a sick kid and I call my pediutrition crying because 0:00:55.440 --> 0:01:00.720 I am spazzing, going to worst case scenarios and freaking out. 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:05.280 And I hate that I am that way because it 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:10.480 creates so much anxiety in me. Um, But I am. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:15.280 And I will tell you every step forward I have 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:20.120 taken with Sonny, like this first travel experience, that's so 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.759 much anxiety about what to pack for her, getting her 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.080 how are we going to travel through the airport. How 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:27.360 we're gonna sit in the plane? Is she going to 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.039 cry the whole time? Or her ear is gonna hurt? 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:30.520 Do I have all the things that she needs so 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.080 she doesn't lose it? And if she does lose it, 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.520 will I'd be able to calm her down? And um, 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.800 what if she has a blowout a poop blow out? 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:41.600 Oh wait, she did. She pooped through her entire onesie, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.480 biggest poop explosion she's ever had at the airport. It 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:47.680 was funny though, you know, it's great, had a change 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.440 of clothes, awesome, Everything's fine, you know what, It was 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.120 all fine because what I've realized is the more you 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.520 can just do things. Oh and then also like I've 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.520 been on the strict schedule because she's been sleeping through 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.840 the night, and all of a sudden, now we're gonna 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.640 beach traveling in airplanes and cars and different time frames 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.920 and she can't get her naps in and what if 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.320 she doesn't get her full nap and what she isn't 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.399 going to is she gonna stop sleeping in the night. 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.679 Is she going to be crying all the time? Is 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:19.079 it going to be a disaster? All that stuff. Control, control, control, 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:22.080 control is what I'm screaming. I need control, I need control. 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.640 I need control. Give me control. But you can't have 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.959 control all the time if you're going to get involved 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:33.320 in life. So that's where we are getting involved in life. 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.000 We had the first three months where I feel like 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.440 we kind of post it up, hit hit away in 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:42.160 the house. Started creeping out slowly around a month two 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.040 and you know, getting more in the car, going places 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:49.680 every now and then, but still trying to stay very 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:53.560 strict on the map, on the nap schedule, not really 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.400 going too many places. Wanted her to be home for 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.639 her bedtime at seven thirty, get a bath every night. Um. 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.720 But when you're traveling and going to see family and 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:05.480 going on planes and going to do whatever you need 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:09.320 to do. And obviously even if you have other kids, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:10.680 like I just have one kid, so I can keep 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.120 her on a schedule pretty much, But if you have 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:14.760 other kids, you can't keep your kids on schedule because 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.720 they've got practices, they gotta go to, they gotta pick 0:03:16.760 --> 0:03:19.480 them up from school, they have all sorts of things 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:21.440 that are happening in their lives. And what are you 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.160 gonna do leave your baby at home? While you go 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:25.560 get your kids from school. No, you're gonna throw your 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:27.000 baby in the car and they're gonna come with you. 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:28.440 And that's just the way it's gonna be, and they're 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:34.240 gonna figure out how to adjust. So anyway, this was 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.720 such a good trip for me. Michael and Sonny did amazing. 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:43.320 They were perfect. I was a wreck the whole time. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.840 Uh well, for the beginning of it, and then by 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:47.960 the end of it, I had totally relaxed. So I 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:51.120 made a list of everything that Sunny needs to travel. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.800 And I know you'll all are going to ask me 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.880 for this list, So I am going to post this 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.280 up on the Instant Stories right now and I'm going 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:05.160 to put it on my um highlight reel under Sunny. 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.360 So if you want to find this travel list, it 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:11.160 will be on my highlight reel under Sunny. Okay, so 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.400 you are gonna probably all send me messages, where's the list, 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:15.960 where's the list? That's where it is all my highlight 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:20.720 reel under Sunny. So I put here's what I traveled with, 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:23.479 and honestly, I feel like I kind of nailed it 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.680 with packing for her. You have to have some sort 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:28.480 of certificate that shows who they are. So we had 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.800 our vaccine report and then we packed our stroller and 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.919 our car seat, and we packed our base also because 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.000 we knew we're gonna be driving in the car a lot, 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.200 and with the stroller system that we have, we have 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.040 the upper baby. You don't have to have a base. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.279 You can just attach the car seat without the base, 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.600 but we don't want to do that since we're gonna 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:47.839 be in the car so much. We packed the base 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.600 and we checked the base, and then we put her 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.680 in her car seat, and then we put that in 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:57.120 the rolling stroller part and we push that through um 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.600 the airport, and then we took the car seat out. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:04.279 We got to the plane and we gate checked the 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.760 stroller park like the rolling part, and we just carried 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:10.400 the car seat on. And if the plane is not full, 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.960 which we were playing Southwest, we just put the car 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:15.720 seat in the in the seat next to You have 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.120 to put it by the aisle. I didn't know that 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:18.880 you gotta put me in by the window. You gotta 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.160 put the car seat by the window. But the plan 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.640 is not full, then just put your baby in the 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.000 car seat and put it by the window. And I 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.000 promise you nobody is going to want to sit by 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.159 you anyway. And so if there's an open seat, just 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.920 put your baby's car seat there, because who wants to 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.679 sit by If you have an option to sit anywhere 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.160 other than next to baby, you're going to So people 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:39.800 aren't going to sit there anyway. So I did not 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.760 feel bad having an extra seat when the plane wasn't full. Um. 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:45.560 So that's what we did. So we get checked our 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.200 stroller and just carried the car seat on and it 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.960 was great. And then we we check checked the base 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:54.160 and we got a baggage claim and that was great. Um. 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:58.080 And then I packed her monitor her sound machine. I 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.120 am religious about putting her outlet her foot which monitors 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:03.720 her breathing and heart rate. Oh that's just a little 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.200 super obsessive mommy thing that I do. You don't have 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.000 to have an outlet. They are kind of pricey. They're 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.760 like almost four dollars, I think, But to me, that 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.960 was one of the greatest purchases and gifts that I 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.839 have gotten because it gives me peace of mind. I 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:20.240 can look at it her her breathing and her um 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.000 heart rate on my phone. And there is also this 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:28.600 green base light that when it's green she's breathing well, 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.640 everything is normal, and if it if something goes wrong, 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:32.839 a big red alarm goes off. And so it just 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.600 gives me a peace of mind to be able to 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.159 go to sleep because I have such a hard time sleeping. 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.320 I would have such a hard time sleeping if I 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.400 didn't know that there was something that would wake me 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.800 up if something went wrong with her breathing. And obviously 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.280 it's a machine, and not everything is, but it gives 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.080 me a lot of piece of mine. So we packed 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.760 the monitor, the sound machine, the outlet, the pack and 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:56.560 play um, and then I didn't pack her play mat. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.920 I just packed a blanket and then I packed her 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.320 She has this little elephant that sings a little song 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.039 and lights up that's on the play mat, so I 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:05.800 packed that, and then I packed this mirror that she 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.479 likes to look at, and I packed a few toys 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.760 and I didn't actually pack the full play matt, but 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:13.880 it worked fine. I just laid a blanket down and 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.280 put off her little toys around and it's great. We're 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:22.240 great for play mat. I packed swaddle burt cloths, onesies, um, 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.800 like I said, blankets, a towel for bath. Although we 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.000 didn't give her but one bath in five days because 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.640 it was just too hard to give her a bath. Um, 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.280 but like baths, soap, lotion, brush, if you want to 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:37.240 brush your baby's hair, but me, you don't really need to. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.320 Then I packed my pump, my pump bra um which 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.320 I use Simple Wishes. A lot of you guys asked 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.600 which pump bra I use. I use Simple Wishes. I 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:50.400 packed my milk bottles and caps I packed. I think 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.760 I packed four and I think I packed five bottles, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.520 and I think that was the right amount for me, 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.880 about five bottles UM. And then I packed my pump parts. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.920 I packed one bag of frozen milk because I wasn't 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.320 sure how my supply was going to hold up, and 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.080 it held up great. And then I brought a full 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:14.720 bottle with me for the plane. And then I packed 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:20.320 um a bottle warmer and then a sponge washer to 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.160 wash all the bottles off, and then bottle soap, and 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.880 then diapers and wipes, and it was great. That was 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.200 everything we needed. What I carried on on the plane 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:34.920 was her stroller and then my obviously my baby bag, 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.000 which had an extra change of an extra onesie for her. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.760 It had diapers, it has her PASSI, it has a 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:48.080 few little teething toys in there, um wipes, it has 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.400 um I have this, so gott I have it. I 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:56.480 have a like a a waterproof wet bag or something. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.079 I don't know what exactly what it's called, but it's 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.960 like it zips up and you can put anything wet 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:02.640 in there and it won't leak out. And I'm so 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.240 glad I did because she had a blowout poop explosion 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.640 at the airport and her clothes were drenched. If you 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.120 look at my instagram you can see it completely drenched 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:18.320 and poop and it was hilarious, and I went I 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.080 had to go changer in the changing station, which I 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.640 also have a changing pad, like one of those portable 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:25.280 ones that you can lay out on top of stuff 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.920 and you can change your baby anywhere. It's like it 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:29.920 folds up and you can travel with it. And I'm 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:31.760 so glad I did, because the changing station in the 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.840 bathroom was disgusting and there was like white, flaky, crusty 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.160 stuff all over. It made me throw up. But what 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:38.640 do you do? You have no options? So I laid 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.439 down the changing pad and then I changed her blowout onesie, 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:47.400 and then I um put the changing pad and the 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.040 onesie in the wet bag when I was done with it, 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:52.719 and zipped it up, so it was like all that gross, disgusting, 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:58.040 pooping contaminated pad was now zipped up in this wet 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.440 bags that didn't have to get on all the other 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.800 clean stuff. And then I packed a blanket in my carry, 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:08.280 like a little um barefoot dreams blanket in my baby bag, 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.559 because in case she got cold, or I could put 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.240 it over her um car seat when we're sleeping in 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.679 the car if she needs a little darkness to make 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.080 it a little dark. And then I had a portable 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.160 sound machine, just like a little portable sound machine that 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:25.320 is battery operated, that I tied onto her car seat 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.040 and actually leave that on her car seat all the time, 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.520 and that helps calmer down and helps her to go 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:34.000 to sleep. So I had that as well, and that 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.680 is pretty much all that we packed. Oh and I 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.440 have one of those um it's like a car seat cover. 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.600 It's you put it over your car seat. I don't 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.640 know what it's called, and it like it fits perfectly 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.840 over your car seat and it kind of makes it 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:52.000 just like a turtle shell. Covers the baby and it 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.240 just makes it like a little cocoon in there, and 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.400 I put that over there so it protects her from 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.240 germs in the airport, I mean more than not having it. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.360 And it also keeps the light out. So that was 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.760 what I packed, and I felt like it was great. 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.360 I carried on a full bottle, so I fed her 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.440 right before we went, and she had a full meal 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.560 right before we got on the plane, and then I 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.600 fed her. I think I fed her at the airport 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.760 and on the plane. And a tip that I learned 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:27.160 was Sonny amazingly doesn't have sensitive ears like her ears 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.120 did not get stopped up, and she didn't like cry, 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.920 because that's why babies cry is because the pressure taking 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.000 off and landing really hurts her ears. Sonny's didn't, and 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:40.080 so I'm so thankful for that. But a tip is 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:43.840 breastfeed or bottle feed your baby during takeoff and landing 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:46.600 because that keeps their mouth moving and pops their ears 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.559 for them. And so we did do that the first 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.480 flight and she was fine, and then I didn't do 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:56.400 it coming landing because she was asleep in my arms 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:58.520 and I just didn't want to wake her up, and 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:00.800 she slept right through it. And then the flight home, 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:02.719 we didn't even I didn't put a bottle in her mouth, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:03.959 and we took off and she was fine. And I 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:05.840 didn't put a bottle in her mouth and we landed 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:07.800 and she was fine. But that is a tip that 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.520 a bunch of my mom friends have told me, So 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.920 if your baby has sensitive ears, definitely breastfeed or bottle 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:18.000 feed takeoff and landing. So then we got in the 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.360 car and we got off our luggage and Sunny ended 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:24.360 up just like napping where she could and it was fine. 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.040 She did fine in the car. She might have gotten 0:12:26.040 --> 0:12:28.520 a little fussy, like trying to get comfortable in her 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:30.120 car seat because she has not really been in a 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.280 car seat that much because she hasn't crazy o c 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:36.480 D mom that doesn't leave the house. Um, but she 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.880 did great. And what I realized I had some big 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:45.680 revelations on this trip is that babies can't We'll get 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.440 if they're hungry, they're gonna let you know and they're 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.480 gonna eat. And if they're tired, they're going to close 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.200 their eyes and they're going to take a nap. And 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.880 so she got her naps whenever she could in the car, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.719 or if we were home at my sister and brother 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.120 in law's house, I put her in the in her 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:01.800 little pack and play and she'd take a nap there. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.160 But like I just didn't stress out about it too much. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.600 The only thing that I made sure I did do 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.800 was she eats five bottles a day of six ounces. 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.200 I breastfeed her in the morning. So a bunch of 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.359 you guys asked if I'm still breastfeeding. I am breastfeeding 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.720 one time, and I breastfeed in the morning at seven 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.280 when she wakes up, I will breastfeed her until she 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.640 doesn't want a breastfeed, which is normally like ten minutes. 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.120 She'll breastfeed and then I top her off with a bottle, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.400 and so she'll normally take like three or four ounces 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.959 after she finishes breastfeeding so high. That lets me know 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.679 that she's getting about three ounces breastfeeding, and so then 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.000 the rest she'll get on the bottle. So the only 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.520 thing that was important to me when we were traveling 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.959 was that she got her five bottles of six ounces, 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.240 because that is how your baby grows, That is how 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.680 your baby stays not fussy, that is how your baby 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:54.319 sleeps through the night. Is getting all of their milk 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.040 that they need well, in my opinion, getting all all 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.319 their milk that they need. So I just gauged everything 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.280 off of her five bottles. I was like, Okay, we're 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:04.920 gonna try to get the naps when we could. I 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:08.280 tried to get that first nap if I could, because 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.439 her first nap is two hours long, so she ends 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.679 up sleeping five hours a day. If she's on a schedule, 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.120 she'll wake up at seven, have a bottle, go back 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.560 to sleep around eight thirty, and then she'll normally sleep 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.760 like two hours, and then she'll wake up again and 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.960 have another bottle, and then she'll go down to sleep 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:27.320 for two more hours, usually from like one thirty to 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.920 three thirty, and then she'll wake up and then we'll 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.160 have another bottle, and then she'll take a quick little nap, 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.560 maybe around like forty five, a quick little forty five 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.320 minute or hour nap, and then she'll have another bottle, 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:39.920 and then I'll give her bath and get her ready 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.560 for bed, and then she'll have one more bottle around 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:46.240 like six thirty before she goes to sleep between seven 0:14:46.240 --> 0:14:49.600 and seven thirty. So my goal was every day just 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.200 make sure she gets those five bottles around the same 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.960 time that she normally would beginning them whether or not 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.000 we've had our good naps, and then I would try 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.440 to get that first big morning nap in, which was 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.840 like two hour hours, try to get that one, and 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:03.520 then the rest of them. I just let her grab 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.600 naps wherever we could. One of them, I was at 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:07.000 my mother in law's house and I just had to 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.960 hold her for forty five minutes in my arms because 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.880 we were hanging out talking on the couch and that's 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.960 where she napped. Another one was in a car when 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.800 we're driving to go see another family for him. Another 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:22.000 one was, uh, just usually they're in the car or 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:24.400 on an airplane, Like she grabbed a quick one on 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.320 the airplane when we were flying because it was an 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:29.320 hour flight. So it's just like I just let go 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:31.800 of the control of the naps and let her try 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.160 to nap where she could. And I realized that like 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:38.600 she normally naps five hours a day, two naps or 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.440 two hours each and then she has a quick hour 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:43.480 nap or forty five minute nap in afternoon, So if 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.360 I could get hers close to napping five hours a day. However, 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.040 she got those That was also how I viewed it. 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:50.640 I was like, Okay, however she needs to get these 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.280 five hours. Great, If she only gets four hours today, 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.600 that's fine, we'll go to bed a little bit earlier. 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:57.800 Like I just didn't stress out too much about it. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.520 So that's how I viewed it. Five bottles a day 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.320 of six sounds. I made sure she got those all day, 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.640 and then if I could get that big morning nap, 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.520 I went. I was super happy about that. If I couldn't, 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:10.880 then I just realized that if she could get us 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.520 close to sleeping five hours, however she had to get 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.360 it in the day, then that's just how it's gonna be. 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:20.120 And you know what, Sunny was a champ. She was great. 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:24.800 She did amazing. I had so much control issues and 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.600 so much stress. But finally, by like day three, and 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.560 thankfully we're with our family, Michael's brother and his wife 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.200 and their five kids, and they're so laid back because 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.600 I mean, they have five kids. Come on, they're not stressed. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.880 You can't be super stressed and o c D when 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.200 you have five kids, because life is happening at that point. 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.240 And so it was really good for me to just 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:53.000 be thrown into the mix of life, traveling all the things, 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.720 letting go of control and realizing how resilient Sunny is. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:01.200 She was on the airplane around six people coughing. She 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.040 was fine. My sister in law had two kids who 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.600 are actually getting over being having cold. Of course, was 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.600 freaking out about that. They were fine. We just kept 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.919 Sunny at a healthy distance away from the kids. But 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:15.320 it's like, really, can you So I was freaking out. 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.680 Called my pediatrician like, oh my gosh, she's gonna be 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.600 on an airplane. My nieces and nephews are coming off 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:23.399 a cold, Like I'm freaking out. What do we do? 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:27.000 What do we do? And he's like, calm down so 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:31.040 many women in the nicest way, he was like helping 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.760 ease my pain. He's the best. He's the greatest pediatrician 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.919 ever episode. Thankful for him. Um. He was like, so 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.000 many women at Sunny's at the point in Sunny's life 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.080 are working a friend of job where they can't work 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.000 from home, and so they have to take their kids 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:48.040 to daycare and the kids are exposed to everything at 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.520 daycare and he's like, it's honestly, it's good for their 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.479 immunity to start building up and being exposed to germs. 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:56.520 It's not a bad thing. Every kid is going to 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:00.160 get sick. It's gonna be fine, Like, just don't worry. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.120 And so that was great to me to realize that 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.360 it's good for kids to be around germs. It's good 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.000 to build the immune system. Every kid is going to 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:09.840 be sick. I don't have to go to this worst 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.359 case scenario that everything is just going to be like, 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:15.840 it's not going to be as dramatic as I make it. 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.080 I just like, you hear about everything that happens on 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.720 the news, you know, like you see on social media 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:24.400 and you see on the news, and you hear all 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:28.320 these terrible things that can go wrong, and so when 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:30.080 they're all in your head and you're an O, C 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:33.880 D worried mother, you can't help but just like think 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:36.920 about everything that could possibly happen, but you just can't 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.720 stress about it. I mean, you have to be responsible, 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.040 but then you have to let it go, you know. 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.360 And so that is what I learned on this trip. 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:49.320 I learned that kids are resilient and that it is 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:52.879 really great to get out in the world and to 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.880 just not worry, not swept the small stuff like work 0:18:57.920 --> 0:18:59.720 as hard as you can to keep them on the schedule, 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.520 give them the food that they need, but then just 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.400 let the rest flow. Okay, you guys, I'm I took 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:07.920 a quick break. I don't know that. I just put 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.480 it on pause and I went and picked up Sunny. 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.880 So if you hear a little baby scream, um, it's 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:16.119 Sunny because she's joining me now. So here are some 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:21.600 questions that you guys have asked me about traveling with 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.879 a baby. So I'm just gonna run through some of them. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:26.119 Like you know, I might have already answered some of 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:28.520 these just by rambling, but I'll just hit him up 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:30.600 again briefly so I can make sure I cover all 0:19:30.600 --> 0:19:34.600 your questions. Yeah, Sunny, you've got something to say. Okay, 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.399 what does it must have while packing a bag for 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:40.320 a baby? Um, I read you off my list, so 0:19:40.440 --> 0:19:43.760 I honestly think all of them. Your bottles, your pump, 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:50.960 your pack and play, UM, your sound machine pretty much. 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:55.199 I feel like every diaper's pretty much everything that I 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:57.960 listened in that UM I read off earlier. I think 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.480