NEVER again. Ever.

panicked228

So we left Korea on the 30th of March. We had a 10 hour flight to San Francisco, a two hour layover to get our bags and pets, headed back through security, the boarded another 5 hour flight to Baltimore. The first flight was wonderful since it was at night, LO slept mostly the whole time. The second flight was horrid. LO was cranky, DH and I couldn't sit together, and I was horribly airsick. LO wouldn't nurse on landing, so she screamed the last half hour of the flight. We finally landed, drove 5 hours to Pittsburgh, stayed there for four days, drove 2.5 hours north to my hometown, spent a week there, drove 2 hours to Cleveland, spent a week there, then drove twenty-two freaking hours to Colorado. TWENTY-TWO hours. In a car. With a screaming, teething infant. If she wasn't sleeping, she was screaming. It was Hell. About halfway through, I was selfish and gave her some Benadryl. I feel horrible for medicating her, but it wasn't fair to let her scream for so long. She takes one look at her carseat now and starts screaming. I am so tired of being in a car, I may scream if I have to travel more than ten seconds. The upside is that we are finally here and won't have to travel for three-ish years. Thank Jeebus.

  So anyways... what did I miss around here!?

Libby1978

Oh my!  I'm glad you made it, but sorry you had such a rough trip!!

Oriana.Ocampo

I am giving you the side eye for giving her Benadryl.. If she is teething you could've given her baby advil or tylenol, but benadryl??

Anyways, I am sorry you had such a horrible experience.. That is a lot of traveling for such a young baby, she must've been tired as well. 

Glad you're home.. Relax & have a glass of wine. 

VABride2008

Wow, just the trip home from Korea would make me tired!  Glad you made it safely. 

mamabear2010

Geez, that sounds miserable. Sorry you had to deal with that! At least now every other trip will seem like a piece of cake compared to this

panicked228

Oriana.Ocampo:

I am giving you the side eye for giving her Benadryl.. If she is teething you could've given her baby advil or tylenol, but benadryl??

Anyways, I am sorry you had such a horrible experience.. That is a lot of traveling for such a young baby, she must've been tired as well. 

Glad you're home.. Relax & have a glass of wine. 

 Let me clarify. We had been giving her Tylenol. She wasn't screaming because of the teething, she was screaming because she had been strapped in a car seat for three days straight. I only gave her Benadryl as a very last resort.

Oriana.Ocampo

panicked228:

Oriana.Ocampo:

I am giving you the side eye for giving her Benadryl.. If she is teething you could've given her baby advil or tylenol, but benadryl??

Anyways, I am sorry you had such a horrible experience.. That is a lot of traveling for such a young baby, she must've been tired as well. 

Glad you're home.. Relax & have a glass of wine. 

 Let me clarify. We had been giving her Tylenol. She wasn't screaming because of the teething, she was screaming because she had been strapped in a car seat for three days straight. I only gave her Benadryl as a very last resort.

  Poor baby.. Aghh, I can't imagine being in a car three days straight, I would go crazy. Well I am glad you guys are home safe & sound and can go back to your normal routine.

 

MotuCat

After reading this I will never again complain about the 4 hour drive to Houston.  Wow that was just an ordeal.  Glad you made it through OK.  I hope your LO is doing better now that she's home.

Rach21

panicked228:

About halfway through, I was selfish and gave her some Benadryl. I feel horrible for medicating her, but it wasn't fair to let her scream for so long. 

Why would you feel terrible for medicating her? She was obviously in pain from her teething, and I'm sure her body was sore/stiff from the carseat, too. We recently took only a 3 hour trip to attend a funeral and it was a weird, really quick ceremony and we basically had to get back in the car and drive 3 hours back after an hour and a half. G was MISERABLE until we gave him some Tylenol.