Airplane travel/ time change at 9 weeks.. Experience?

Nikkijo1022

Hello! Hope you're all getting sleep
3am thinking....
Has anyone traveled by Plane at 9 weeks? We have family in Arizona that'd we'd love to visit and show off LO before I go back to work. He will be 9 weeks at the time and I'm having reservations about booking. I know the logistics of travel with baby I guess I'm just a worrier!

It's about a 3 hour nonstop flight. Ped said it was OK as long as he has first set of shots which he will (specifically DTaP) but I'm still worried. Mainly about germs I know barf I'm so not that mom! But LO catching cold or flu would he awful right before I return to work and I always get sick from flight!
I'm also wondering if it really threw LO off having a time difference if you've experienced one. This would be a 2 hours back change.

Experiences and Thoughts would be great! Maybe I'm over analyzing or is he just too small?

slwprincess

I did a short flight (1 hr) with #2 at 8 weeks. It was no big deal- she did great. I kept her in the moby wrap so she had minimal exposure to germs. She slept/nursed the whole time. My experience is travel is easier when they are little. Once they start crawling/walking- it gets WAY harder! No experience with time Chang at that age but I kind of doubt it would make much of a difference. Again, that's a bigger issue when they are older.

sdlaura

Yes, I took DD on 5-hour cross-country flights at 2.5 months. Flying was super easy - she just slept and nursed. She wasn't really on a schedule at that point so there was no issue with the time change. I always buy our kids seats when we travel, even if they can go free as a lap child, and bring the carseat because I like to have my hands/lap free when they are asleep, and because it's safer. Then you don't have to risk the carseat getting damaged while checked or rent one when you don't know its history. DD has always traveled a lot and has always been a super healthy kid. I had planned to travel with DS at the same age before we knew he would have heart defects and a compromised immune system.