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Attachment Parenting
weddingcaketaster
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babywearing while flying
weddingcaketaster
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from everything i've read, it seems like you aren't allowed to wear baby during take off or landing, but what about in the airport. I'm traveling with DD in a few weeks and plan on having her in the Beco. Will I have to take her out to go through security?
**Kelly***
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Re: babywearing while flying
**Kelly***
what???!!! like tsa people or just random people???? thanks for the heads up!
**Kelly***
Random people in line around me. I had DD on my back and when the TSA agent said I had to remove her, the woman in line behind me just scooped DD out of the Ergo while I was fiddling with the buckles. When I went to grab her back, she said, "oh, I don't mind holding her while you walk through security." Very well-meaning, I'm sure, but I was a bit thrown off by the whole thing!
I wore DD in a moby during take off & landing about 6mo ago. There shouldn't be any reason why you can't.
And, generally, you will have to take her out to go through security, unless, you don't mind getting a pat down. Or, so that was what we were told when we flew back in May.
If I had a penny for every time some random person tried to "help" me get DD on/off my back.... I usually say, "We do this ALL the time! The fewer hands the better!!!!!!"
On our last trip I had to yell at two different TSA agents who wanted to "help." I was pretty sure I was gonna get in trouble for yelling at them. I just couldn't take, "No thank you" for an answer.
ETA: THEY could not take, "No thank you" for an answer.
You're holding your baby for the whole flight, including takeoff and landing. No one cared how I held DS. (Come to think about it, no one even cared if I had my seat belt fastened!)
I wore him in the moby to load the plane and just kept it on until we were off the plane and found it was a huge help for the loading/unloading. For security, we had a stroller and car seat as we got around the airport, so I just carried him through in my arms.
Per the FAA you are not allowed to wear your baby during take off or landing. They are not an FAA approved device and that is the issue. Whether or not the flight attendant makes you take them out is another story.
I have flown recently several times with dd (as in as recently as yesterday). If you wear your baby through they will have to do a pat down. It is much easier to take them out at security and then just put them back in.
That kind of makes me giggle...even though I (kind of) understand the intent. Are arms FAA approved devices for holding lap children? I mean, if the child's not in his/her own seat....
Funny, I had the opposite happen to me last year in London Heathrow (Brits are not always as 'helpful' as Americans): I beeped going through just holding DD since they had asked me to take her out of the Beco. They needed to pat me down without DD and the security guy had to ask two others to hold the baby before a young female officer finally agreed. She was clearly not used to babies but Zoe was a happy camper for the 10 seconds it took. Heathrow is the *worst* airport when it comes to taking babies through security.
OP: If you have a wrap and feel confident enough with it I can recommend that instead. The times where they have not asked me (since the rules changed in November 2010) to take DD out was when I wore her in a wrap. The Beco they always ask me to take off. On the other hand the Beco is also quicker to get in and out of :-)