travelling with babies

I've never been to Thailand with a baby (unless you count a stopover at Bankok en route to London ) but I have had plenty of flying experience with Maya.

This link is to an article I wrote for OhBaby! on flying with kids.

http://www.ohbaby.co.nz/default.asp?categoryID=3&subcategoryID=85&pageID=136

hey robyn, just had a thought. If you are going to take some snacks for kobe, make sure you chuck them out in the bin before quarintine, or at least declare them. I think it's an instant $250 fine. My father-in-law works at the airport in Sydney and said parents often forget opened cans of baby food and stuff like that. You'll need to declare and infant formula too. I think coming from NZ you can bring it in, but you MUSt delcare it!!

Sealed jars of baby food are fine going thru customs in Australia.

Take your own milk, coz airlines usually only have those little creamer sachets. You can buy longlife milk in individual cartons with straws (just like juice cartons) which are fine for kids, and if you take a couple and only end up needing one, the other one will still be sealed so you can take it off the plane at the other end and give it to Kobe while you are mucking around going thru customs/waiting for a lift/in the car etc. You can find them usually in the baking aisle with all the soy/rice milks.
I do this with Maya, using the Rice Dream in the single cartons.

theres some great tips here as I am going to oz end of sept so would have been wondering about the food thing too.nnow I dont have to re-hassel u frequent flyers closer to sept!!

yeah Americans can be arrogant at times (hope theres no yanks reading this).

me and mike have never been on a plane... how sad are we.. lol

I have taken Ella up to New Plymouth twice, on AirNZ.

All pretty good experiences - no screaming baby at least!

Yep, I am a big freak when it comes to flying and it doesn't seem to get better with experience. I hope that because Maya has flown so often from such a young age that she won't be frightened of it, but then I was never worried about flying as a kid, it's some internal paranoia that I've developed as an adult!

Emma - could it have something to do with the fact that usually you take Maya with you.. I mean, kids don't really sit and think about all the things that could go wrong etc, but adults do, and when you have kiddies with you.. maybe your mind goes into overdrive even more?