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Mastering the Art of Traveling with a Baby: From Car Rides to Cruises
Have you ever wondered how to keep the peace on a long car ride with a baby? Let's embark on a journey of discovery as we share our tried and tested travel tips and advice for parents. From entertaining babies during car rides, navigating the airport security checks with a stroller, to making the most out of a cruise trip with a baby - we spill it all! Our personal anecdotes and practical tips will arm you with confidence to tackle the challenges of traveling with your little one head-on.
Been on a flight and had to do a diaper change in an airplane washroom? We've been there! Tune in as we share our own in-flight experiences with babies. From wise meal timings to picking the right airplane seat and carrying only the essentials to the restroom, we’ve got you covered. And for those considering a cruise with a baby, hang tight! We’ve sailed that ship and have a treasure trove of advice to share.
Rounding up our parenting series, we delve into the logistics of taking a baby on a cruise. We stress the importance of bringing enough supplies, planning for emergencies, and keeping the baby entertained on board. And if you're thinking of bringing someone along to help, we've got thoughts on that too! So, get ready to set sail on your next adventure, equipped with all the right information to make it a smooth voyage. Sit back, relax, and let our personal experiences guide your way through the world of traveling with a baby.
Have you ever wondered how to keep the peace on a long car ride with a baby? Let's embark on a journey of discovery as we share our tried and tested travel tips and advice for parents. From entertaining babies during car rides, navigating the airport security checks with a stroller, to making the most out of a cruise trip with a baby - we spill it all! Our personal anecdotes and practical tips will arm you with confidence to tackle the challenges of traveling with your little one head-on.
Been on a flight and had to do a diaper change in an airplane washroom? We've been there! Tune in as we share our own in-flight experiences with babies. From wise meal timings to picking the right airplane seat and carrying only the essentials to the restroom, we’ve got you covered. And for those considering a cruise with a baby, hang tight! We’ve sailed that ship and have a treasure trove of advice to share.
Rounding up our parenting series, we delve into the logistics of taking a baby on a cruise. We stress the importance of bringing enough supplies, planning for emergencies, and keeping the baby entertained on board. And if you're thinking of bringing someone along to help, we've got thoughts on that too! So, get ready to set sail on your next adventure, equipped with all the right information to make it a smooth voyage. Sit back, relax, and let our personal experiences guide your way through the world of traveling with a baby.
Hello everybody, welcome to episode four in our podcast, part three in our series and parenting. Today we will be talking about traveling with a baby, but first honey.
Linda:Let's do a podcast.
Enrique:Hello everybody, welcome back to honey. Let's do a podcast. I am your host, enrique, and we have next to me the amazing, the incredible, the greatest of all time, my lovely wife Linda.
Enrique:Yes, Okay so, as we were saying, today's part three in our series and parenting, we will be talking about traveling with a baby. There's three topics we want to really talk about. First, it's gonna be car rides, which already here has to do. Second is gonna be flights. And third, because we actually did it and a lot of people are gonna be doing this.
Enrique:One's first two I'm almost everybody is gonna have to go through this, unless you plan on not doing any traveling until your kids around two to three years old, or four, I don't know. Well, at some point you're gonna have to do it. But the third one is cruising. So cruise ships. That's kind of like the one. That's more, you might not be doing it as much, but it's well, since we did it, might as well talk about things you might need. So, like we said, this is going to conclude our series in parenting and we talked about part one I think it was a, you know, troubles, getting pregnant, infertility. Part two was about postpartum depression and also about, you know, the, the actual Deliberial or the birth story, and then, like I said, part three is going to be traveling with a baby. That's going to conclude it. So, linda, I think the first is what everybody has to do, which is car rides. What do you? You want all the tips you can have for us for car rides.
Linda:Well, I think there are two different topics here. So we have, uh, traveling, short trips every day, traveling going to groceries and stuff like that, and we have long traveling, long hours of you mean, like, if you do like a road trip, or yes, road trip okay.
Linda:Uh, road trip obviously is way more complicated than a short trip. But also, if you have kids, a small baby or a little toddler, uh, sort of you want to entertain that kid baby If it's, if it doesn't go to sleep, uh, feeding is a good idea. If the baby is teething, give them tea tears, because that helps them shoe and they keep entertaining themselves, showing and they will not start crying. Some people use iPads and put yeah, like we used.
Enrique:We've had our baby a lot of times with coca melon, which is probably somebody already every parent knows at this point. Yeah, pretty popular, the same as uh, that, uh, what's it called the, the baby shark? That's the other one that's pretty popular a lot of people listen to. So, you know, you just entertain it. Like she said, maybe you put something that's gonna, you know, distract the baby a lot of times, that's more when they're started to get a little more into their Sec. No, I'm talking about the second, third month.
Enrique:Yeah, at the beginning they're. They basically are just asleep all the time or eating that. They're not really thinking about any iPads or anything like that.
Enrique:Yeah, it's more when they're starting getting a little older, like ours Is getting to 18 months. So at this point, you know, she does get. We need to kind of keep her attention distracted sometimes because if she might get fussy, this is one way to like uh, you know, kind of get, get it back, reel her back in and kind of calm her down, because I'm not, we're just going to be the whole ride with a screaming baby and obviously you're gonna feel super stressed and also the baby is not really gonna Quiet down unless you kind of like, you know, see what's going on or whether it's Something wrong or it's just that she's just, you know, bored and she wants attention or whatever, which is a lot of times what it happens. But I think, to piggyback on what Linda was saying, in car rides we did find at the beginning, because you know some people, when they uh, you know, when they just had their baby and you know they're starting to get back in the house and and things are starting, you're trying to get back into normal, you know there's a big difference now with the baby at the house.
Enrique:Not everything was like before. Oh, you know, let's just go to the restaurant, let's have a dinner night or whatever. You know, now you got the baby and it's not like before. You just could go out and you know it's easy. You know, just get in the car, let's go. You know, now you got to actually think about these things. You got to do your, your diaper bag, you got to make sure you got food.
Enrique:If you're gonna, you're gonna go now. It's because some people don't even want to go out at the beginning, the first two, three months, even hell, I you know people are going don't go out into the first four or five, six months. Uh, because you know they just don't want to deal with the whole scenario of going out with the baby and all that stuff.
Enrique:Yeah, Because we, we actually, we've always, always Like to go out to eat, at least me. My wife's gotten kind of used to it by this point, because you know, you know, we've, we've been dating for a long time.
Linda:I don't have any options here.
Enrique:Um, you know my parents too. When my parents busy, they want to go out all the time to eat and stuff. So, uh, this is pretty normal for us. So we were kind of wanted to do it. We actually did it Fairly like the second week or something after we had the baby.
Linda:The first time she went out was actually on the second week. Yeah, the first week we didn't go out, I think well, you guys went out, but I I stayed at home with the baby talking about.
Enrique:We went out with the baby.
Enrique:Yeah the second week we I think we went out the way they already so by the second week, literally before she even turned a month, we were already doing, you know, going out to restaurants and stuff with the baby. So you know again that it's to each their own. Not everybody feels comfortable doing this. We actually felt we also had our parents, my parents, in town so we had a little extra set of hands Helping. You know, when we were out and stuff. If the baby got fuzzy somewhat of, somebody else could carry her or, you know you, you could eat, while another person would would be trying to. You know, see what's going on, whatever.
Linda:Yeah, take turns.
Enrique:It was a little easier that way to do it, but basically Do you just want to make sure you have your diaper bags, you have your, you know your food If it's really early and you're still.
Linda:Change of clothes.
Enrique:Doing milk, you know, whether it's formula, or Even even now, with which you're 18 months, we still got to bring or the regular milk, you know, or water, but uh, at the beginning, well, you also, you might need the formula, you might need breast milk. You might need to actually give her breast if you want to do it, because some people also that's another thing Some people don't feel comfortable Giving breast in public. Other people don't really care about it. So I mean, again, it depends on the person. But for car rides, what things really do you need? Like Linda said, distraction You're gonna need.
Linda:Something obviously your I wouldn't call a distraction, I would call something to keep the baby entertained. And and I'm not very fan of using ipad or tv or any screen time Sometimes I do use it, but it's not. It's not something that I do prefer. Uh, I do prefer using stuff that involves her hands, something that she have to use her hands, which she is working her motor skills, but also she is working her mind as well. So you have multiple things happening at the same time.
Linda:So you're getting their baby entertained, you're you're getting your baby's brain developed a little bit better and you're also working with her hands and eye coordination. So that's just a great combination the tv and screen time. It works. It keeps the baby entertained. It is the best option, probably not, but something to keep the baby entertained. And now that the the baby is she's a toddler now and she's 18 months or she's gonna be 18 months she likes to play with her socks and she likes to play with her shoes, so that's something that she has been developing over over the time and now she might also have, like a teddy bear or any type of uh you know a toy.
Enrique:Yes, she wants to play with.
Linda:Yeah she likes to play a lot, she likes to use her hands a lot, so she's Because of I try to involve her along Things that require using her hands.
Enrique:She can already put her socks by the way, one thing that we found out that was uh good, specifically early, because what my wife's talking about, like I said, is more when it's four or five, you know six months around there, the first couple, two, two months or before that, you know you're not really gonna need that many toys or whatever because, she's too small for that. But one thing, a tip that we found that was pretty successful, was putting One of these sounds that you put for the baby to sleep.
Enrique:Oh the shush, or whether it's rain, a shush or Anything like that on the car helps, because you know, a lot of times she's Either gonna want to be fed or she wants to sleep, or she did poop or something and she wants you to change her. So there, is.
Linda:There was actually a process for that. The process was Feed her and change the diaper immediately, right before leaving. So you do those two things. Then we had the shusher, actually the shusher. There are other brands, but for me the best one is by far the shusher. And we put the shusher right next to her Car seat or inside of the car seat when she was there, and she will fall asleep and we will not have problems. Yeah eating or going shopping or doing our stuff.
Enrique:Actually a great point. And another great thing about this is that you know babies, like I said, they sleep. I mean they eat and then they usually fall asleep, and when they're in the car, the car actually helps them fall asleep a lot of times Because of the movement.
Enrique:You know the bouncing of the car and the movement and stuff it feels. Remember at that time they're really little, so it feels like when you were in the womb right and you know your mom's moving around. You're just bouncing all over the place. You hear that sound. That's why we put those white sounds, you know, like the rain or it could be even the womb sounds or the heart beating or you know whatever type of sound your baby actually likes to fall asleep.
Enrique:You can use that. But another great thing that we found is that if we do this and she falls asleep, you got like a two hour window more or less before she wakes up again unless there's an issue. So if you go right away, it'll probably let you go somewhere and eat. What you have to make sure Is that you have your car seat. It's easy to move around. You don't have what if you have one of these car seats.
Enrique:Where you cannot pull it out, like we had the Nuna, and this is not like to give, to give any prices, I mean just we're not promoting but it was a great brand and it worked for us. We had that Nuna light which is kind of like it only. It's really easy to move around and the good thing is that it hooks to your car in a base, so it's not this roller.
Linda:It's not a roller.
Enrique:No, I'm talking about the car seat.
Enrique:Oh, okay, it's not hooked with the, with the, with the seat belt, which makes it a little more comfortable. This one's hooked in a base so you can just click a button on, click it from the base, and then we had the stroller, which this, which we had the adapter, so it hooks right into the stroller. So literally you don't have to wake her up, you just grab her boom stroller, go into the restaurant and Really, a lot of times you would just keep falling asleep when you're in the restaurant Linda would move the car, you know.
Enrique:I will use my leg back and forth, just to try to like keep that motion going, so it helps her.
Linda:I will use my both hands Just eating and doing my regular stuff and would use my my legs to Move her around.
Enrique:Yeah, yeah, and basically that's when they were really little. It's nothing really to it, guys. I mean it's. It's Not that many tips in this one and again the shoe sure.
Linda:The shoe sure was very helpful.
Enrique:We bought this one in Amazon that everybody buys, like a red and white one.
Linda:No, yeah, it's orange.
Enrique:If you're watching the video, I'll try to put the picture of the shoe, sure, in the YouTube video. If not, well, yeah, it costs like $30, but honestly, it's not expensive.
Linda:There are other imitations out there and we have another one, the best one yeah but the shoe sure is by far the best one I will is. It literally is a recording of a person Doing should sure over and over. Yes and it does help a lot, even when we were Even in the house and we will use it. We will use it and she will fall asleep. We're just great.
Enrique:But again, that's when they're really little. When they get a little older than you start using the toys and the iPads and you know your, your, your baby, already gives you cues because she starts talking or doing words or saying words or saying sounds.
Enrique:It's a lot easier to kind of like see what the problem is. But basically, to prep, just you know, just have. You just have your diapers. You have your food, have your water, have your drinks, snacks, you have your snacks. Make sure you're prepared. Anything happens. Any accident happens in the trip, explosion, whatever have an extra clothes.
Enrique:Yeah, have extra stuff, sheets to put like, say, she does have an explosion in the car seat, which happened to us, and the car seats gets all you know full of shit or whatever. Have some sheets, put it on top of the car seat, you know, changer, and put the sheets on top so that she's not, you know at least sitting on that and then you know, when you get home you clean it up and all that stuff. But but you know, just be prepared for any type of situation that can occur. Avoid really long trips.
Enrique:If she's really little like, if she's two or three months Less one month, I mean I would probably avoid doing any five, six, seven hour trips. I mean you could, but I think like you're gonna have to be stopping all the time Because she's gonna get wake up. So if you're fine with stopping and stuff like that, it's cool. Normally we're gonna get to the flights in a second into the flights. But when we did flights, I would not recommend also doing a long flight. Probably do it like a Short, three hour flight, two hour flight, something like that. Again, just to, the longer it is and she's younger, the harder it's gonna be, you know.
Linda:I might disagree with that, but Portion of it, because I do remember we did took that flight, the flight to Puerto Rico, yeah, and we did it in. We had two airplanes and I thought that was the worst idea ever. I would.
Enrique:Yeah, we, the Puerto Rico for the baby, were one way. Yeah, we didn't do it. No, layover, you talk about different one with the baby where there's no layover. Okay the baby. I never wanted to have a layover.
Linda:Okay, yeah, cuz cuz. That was just a Notice how the first.
Enrique:Now she's talking about that. The first one was great. They're going over there. Coming back was a was horrible.
Linda:Oh, yeah, yeah, so I do remember now.
Enrique:So Again, it depends, and it was the same time. About the first one, she slept more. The second one she didn't want to sleep, so it was more, it was more difficult, and in this one she was already older, that's what I'm saying. She was already like Seven or eight months at this point.
Linda:Yeah, she was around eight months.
Enrique:So if this was a one month, that's what I'm saying.
Linda:I think she did, she did great.
Enrique:Yeah, she did great, but we'll get there. But anyway, let's try to actually transition because, again, car rides it's not really that difficult. Everybody has to do it, it's not really a rocket science.
Linda:It's just a matter of understanding your child, your baby, knowing the things that he or she likes and they're cues, how they communicate, because they start communicating since very early. But he's on is on our, ourself, the adults, to Pay enough attention to be able to understand their different cues, because it might be something as simple as and, and that will be a cue, specifically cue, or even before that. They have different cries. Okay, what Is this cry versus this other cry Versus this other cry they? So there are a little subtle differences between those different cries and it's us to us, it's up to us to Understand what each of those cry means. Like I will, we knew right away Her hungry cry. It was very different from her sleeping cry. You remember that you were like, oh, she's hungry and Enrique was very. He will know right away when she was hungry because of the particular cry. Or I would know right away when she was sleepy because of her particular cry.
Enrique:Yeah, and these are things you learn. Let's transition back to the second one, which is flights. This is the second most common thing you're gonna do. Obviously, car rides gonna be your primary. Second one's gonna be flights, because a lot of people do travel, whether it's to see family members, you know, just a trip, or whatever you know Works anything. You, you're gonna travel. You're gonna use airplanes more often, so this was the one that probably most people will be using and this one we did it, and specifically in that trip to Puerto Rico, against he was like Seven eight months.
Enrique:So we're gonna give you our perspective from that trip. We can't really tell you, if it was two months, what we would have done differently, because we didn't go through it. We didn't went through it so, but I'm pretty sure it'll be. It has to be something similar. Maybe the baby's just gonna react differently because he's younger. We think she probably might have slept more when she was little. We just don't know if there would be other problems that might have occurred, right? But let's just talk about an eight month old baby and you're traveling with her. So there's when you get out of flight. There's two options of flights you can do. One is you can do what they call infant on lap, which is, when you buy the ticket, one of the adults will have the baby with her Right now. This if each adult can do it. So if it's two of you and you have two babies, you can both do infant on lap. Now, obviously, if it's just you and you have two babies, you can't do two infants on your lap.
Linda:So again, it's one that will be only for under two, oh yeah it's yes, thanks for that.
Enrique:This is two years and on a younger right, or just under two, so you can't be two. So after that you'll, you know, after two years, when she hits two or whatever she hits two, you're gonna have to get a seat, like you know, adult like an adult. You got to get a seat for the baby, but you can do infant on lap, which we just explained, or you can just get a lap for the baby and get a seat for the baby and in that Specific case.
Linda:you do need to have the car seat if he's really little.
Enrique:Yes, yes, so because obviously she's gonna be sleeping. So First check if you are younger and you need the car seat to travel with the baby, make sure that your car seat is FAA regulated and so it's. You know, your, the airlines and all that can. Now you know you can use the car seat on the airlines. Also, some people might prefer this look, the, the, the, the seat. Just because you have an extra, you know, extra amount of extra space. You have an, you know you have the space for the baby, so it's a little easier. You don't have it on you the whole time. You can put it right next to the window and the baby will have their own space, nobody will bother them.
Linda:Yeah, nobody's gonna be like, hey, let me go, I need to go through. Can you stand up a second?
Enrique:Please, I need to go to the restroom. You know you're just gonna have her space and she's fine over there. But some people might prefer the infant lap, just because obviously the the main one will be just to save some money, right, because if you do infant on lap under two years old you don't have to pay for that ticket, yeah, so basically, if you need to save money, you probably would prefer.
Enrique:This time again, everything's gonna depend on, I think, on flight time too. I think if it's short flights, I wouldn't mind Infant on lap. But if it's like a trans Transatlantic flight or something where you have to go different continents and it's like eight plus hours, you know I probably would get the, I would probably get the. I will say five hours is like the, because you know it's just gonna be. Imagine you with the baby, you know 10 hours, 10 plus hours In your lap, and she gets fussy. That don't sound good, okay trust me.
Enrique:That does not sound. Just thinking about it makes me, you know, makes me stressed out. So Probably I would get her own seat if that's the case. But if it's like a two hour flight, if that's the case. But if it's like a two hour flight, maybe three hours even. We did the Puerto Rico. We didn't film left, so that was like around five hours, a little bit less than five hours.
Enrique:It's a little bit like four hours. So we did four hours and, like I said, our first going there was was great, coming back was more of a pain. So the flight coming back she was way, way more fuzzy than the flight going over there. So Because it depends, right, but anyway, thanks, transportation. Okay, what are you gonna say?
Linda:How are we transporting the baby Through the airport?
Enrique:Yeah, but I mean that I was gonna go to tips, but you can. You can start with the first tip.
Linda:You're good, okay. So the first tip I will say is the Honesty. I feel like we should have it back, then the SDA.
Enrique:What are you?
Linda:talking about.
Enrique:Oh, that she's talking about pre the pre check for TSA pre, pre, yeah the TSA. Precheck, the pre check. What's it? I said precheck.
Linda:So I will say that that's the first thing. The Precheck, tsa or TSA, pre check, pre check. We didn't had it at that time and that was really not a good idea because, remember, that was a huge line that we had to go through and in the middle of the line, the baby poop.
Enrique:Now and not only did she poop, she had a little blow up. Blow up, yeah, it was just diarrhea.
Linda:It was bad, it was blow up and we were in the middle of a very long line, so we had to wait.
Enrique:And the baby gets a diaper rash easy. Yes, you have very sensitive skin.
Linda:Yeah, and then after that we have formula and has water. But they have to check.
Enrique:Let's go by tips, right? So the first tip she's talking about doing the pre TSA, pre TSA pre check is the most, I think a second one I would. I would do would be you know, travel like yourself and Bring a check back for the baby. I would bring a check back because you need. You need a lot more shit that you probably would have need before. So, lynn, then I would normally travel with just a.
Enrique:Korean. Carry on and that's it, and we still only need to carry on. But now we got to think about the baby too. So, specifically at the beginning, and you know You're gonna need lots of stuff for her whether it's bottles.
Enrique:You know we needed to bring like a thing for her to sleep when we got to the other place. So, like a like almost like a small crib, you're gonna need to bring like I don't know, like carriers Ex. You know there's just a lot of stuff like sheets, diapers. There's a lot of stuff you need to bring and you need space for that. So we were what we recommend is you bring like a check back, get like a big back that you normally would never bring. Check back and put all the baby stuff in there. You're scramming. If you need to put like Almost that it doesn't fit and you need to like you know cup, just put it all in there. And you know, go that one under with the plane, right, you know at the bottom, and just check it in and that's it and that that's a great tip that we think that is beneficial, because Some people I want to put it in their own carry on, just do not bring an extra one. You know we got and then you don't have space for anything.
Linda:It's impossible. It's impossible. Just diapers Pretty much occupies almost all the space. Actually, in our case, we brought a little bit of diapers and then we brought, we bought more.
Enrique:Yeah, when we got home. Yeah, when we got to their parents, yes, yeah, so that that's another option, but but sometimes you don't go somewhere where you're gonna buy diapers, yeah, you know. So you want to just bring everything your own set yourself.
Linda:I mean, that would be the ideal situation.
Enrique:Make sure that you have all your bases cover and yeah, because let's say, you're gonna vacation house in the middle of the mountains, for example, I Don't know and once you get there, the nearest down is 30 miles away, or 40 or 50. I don't know. I mean you need some diapers. You ain't gonna go an hour. That's a very specific, so I'm saying I know that's a very specific scenario, but not everybody who travels is going somewhere where they have accessible Diapers close by. Maybe that?
Enrique:might happen, maybe you don't, so it's better to be prepared that is good If you don't, that's because maybe you don't, you don't have them when you get there.
Enrique:You can't purchase anymore. So that's that with that. That's that tip about the luggage. Third, know that this is like a like something the information that you should have bottles, formula water. You know Water bottles that are gonna be mixed with formula milk, breast milk, medicine, any liquid that Normally you have. What's the amount again with it? You know it's like 3.4, something like that, ounces or three ounces whatever.
Enrique:I don't know the exact amount that you, that you're allowed to bring in the airplane, but that does not apply for any of these things that I just said again water for mixing formula, milk, breast milk, any of that medicine, all those liquids for the baby, you don't. There's no like a certain amount rule. You can, you can pass those, no problem.
Enrique:They will check them However exactly, we didn't know this and, like Linda said, and this is why I wanted to, I wanted to stop for a minute ago, just because I wanted it to give away this and for you know, say the story, say the complete story. When the blowout happened in the line With the baby, we were like, okay, you know that we'll just get through this quick. And then, you know, you'll go to the restroom because we were.
Enrique:Yeah, because we were. We were when this the blowout happened. We were not that far back in the line, we were close to where you know you have to go through the metal detector and all that stuff. So we're like, okay, we'll just, we'll just go through this quick and then you'll go to the restroom, we'll change her up and all that stuff. But when we went through the, you know you put your bags through a little scanner, mm-hmm, and you have to wait for them, you know, to go clear. And then you grab it. They go like, hey, sir, is this your bag?
Linda:I'm like, yes, it was a diaper bag.
Enrique:I was like, well, you know, is this your bag man? And yes, what's problem? Oh, we need to check this. So they were checking all the. So, even though they're allowed, they're still gonna check and they're still gonna probably do a swab To you know whatever to check that. There's nothing wrong with it. But they, they will get every single bottle. It's not like they just do one and that's it. They go every. If you have six bottles, they go all six bottles. They'll check those, do a swab or whatever.
Enrique:It's like a machine like a test that green lights them and then you're fine and then, whatever, you keep going. So we didn't know this and remember we had a baby with a blowout. So we were like, man, we need to, we need to get this going.
Linda:I got to watch.
Enrique:Linda got stressed because you know the baby gets the diaper rash and and you know. But just know that if you bring. If you bring bottles whether it's milk, breast milk, liquid formula, whatever they probably they still gonna pull them out and check.
Linda:That's basically what I'm trying to say just in case that process of checking takes. It takes a good amount of time, I think you you stay there around 20 minutes or 30 minutes or five minutes per bottle.
Enrique:Yeah and we brought like six.
Linda:Yeah, we brought six for sure and so she was kind enough to give me the rest of the diaper back. That was not the problem, and I was able to change her and I stayed with the and he stayed until. But if we had to wait for the person to check all of the bottles, it will take way too much time and the baby would have a A serious diaper rush at the beginning it was even worse.
Enrique:She would get even more diaper rash when she was even more little.
Linda:She had very sensitive skin. Yeah and most most base babies do have sensitive skin, but my baby had a little bit more sensitive skin that than usual.
Enrique:Okay, here's my other tip. This is like tip number four Bring like a travel stroller. Bring an easy stroller that you can, you know, make it little, it's easy to move around, you can meet. We had, we bought a stroller. It's called a yo-yo. You probably heard about it or maybe you haven't, but whatever, it's called a yo-yo, y-o, y-o, and it gets so compact that you can even put it in the overhead bin In the airplane.
Enrique:Yeah, you don't have to put it on even have to put it in because it's so small that it's like a briefcase. It almost it's a size of a briefcase when you, when you come, when it gets compact and that was perfect, I mean that's great because we could, we could bring it to stroller. We're not bringing this huge monstrosity through the whole airport. We have something that's really easy Move it around. You know we have the baby there because you again, it's easy, you can put her to, you can have Sleep, rest, whatever she's in the stroller.
Linda:There was an attachment that you can. We can put the, the Denona people light Attached to the yo-yo and we were able. I mean the baby could be.
Enrique:I think she was sleeping after the whole Situation with the yeah, so we put it on the stroller with the and then she was in the car she was sleeping Then.
Linda:Then it was, it was nice.
Enrique:So again, that's another tip bring a stroller. Don't bring your your Cadillac, please. It's huge. I mean if you want to do it, do it. But I mean I'm telling you it's gonna be a pain in the ass If you have a huge scroller Plus. You know you're gonna have to check that in anyway once you get to the gate. That's gonna have to go with the car seat, unless again, you're using car seat in your, in your seat. But since we did the you know the infight on lap, we had to check the car seat. Another tip when you get to the gate, ask the lady in the counter If there is a seat available next to you or if there's any seats that are opened in the airplane that you can move to a seat that has an opening next to you. Trust me, if there is.
Linda:Take it.
Enrique:It'll take it because you'll need that extra space. This is if you're in infant and lap. If you bought a seed and you have three already, three in a row or whatever, you don't need this. This is more. If you're in Finland, lap and you just ask, just to see, you know there is a spot on the plane, you can maybe ask her if they can move you or move you guys to that open spot. Okay, so ask this you got not to lose. If there is, they'll move you. If not, well what?
Enrique:you know you try. So another thing at the gate, while you're at it, remember that take advantage of being with an infant. So you're gonna be, you know you can ask about this if you're not sure. If you're, if the airline supports it Some airlines support it somewhere, learns don't, but I think most of them support it but take advantage of the pre-check preboarding not pre-check preboarding when you're with a baby and it's like a young, you know young baby.
Enrique:I Get an infant two years, usually two years and younger or younger than two they're gonna. After they call first class or whatever you know, or the guys that have the membership with the with the airline or whatever they're normally call. You know military, and then they call customers or flights traveling with a baby Under two. They let there'd say they're welcome to board, so use it. You know that extra little amount of time that you have to Board. Just so you know you have your, specifically just so you know you have your over been space still clear. I mean, that's a game changer, trust me. Take advantage of it. You'll think me later.
Enrique:Another tip for you, linda with a flight another tip Now I was thinking about I thought you were gonna talk about the when we're in flight, because this is all preboarding, or boarding or preboarding. What happens when you're in flight? Yeah, a couple, I know. I know you had a couple ones.
Linda:So so the another tip that I can give you is a takeoff, actually takeoff on when the airplane is going down, landing. Have a bottle or a pacifier and give the baby the bottle. A takeoff that helps the baby of multiple things. First, for the babies cannot pop out their ears, so you that helps them to just do.
Enrique:The sucking motion helps them pop out the ears exactly, and Also it helps baby fall asleep.
Linda:So the airplane going up, it kind of works like if it's the car ride and the milk. It's kind of like shrunks the baby. If you give them a lot of milk it will knock out that baby and it will sleep good amount of that flight. So that will be a very good help. Yeah and also landing the same thing. Hey, you do it more for the ears.
Enrique:So this is just to piggyback again from when Linda said Try to before this is again pre-flight, because obviously this stuff that you can do this in flight or when they're about to take off try to time your meals before the before the Flight. So, for example, if you know you're gonna have to give her bottle or she needs to feed at X time, try to time the meals so that her time to feed is more or less when your plane's leaving, so that you can just give her the bottle right when the plane's about to take off. And you know it's a win-win for everybody. This actually a lot of pre-detrictions tell you ours, tell us to do it. So a lot of them. Just if you just talk, let's say you're gonna have trip, and you talk to your pediatrician, they'll probably tell you this tip that we're giving you, but you're listening to it, you know ahead of time. Then here you go, here you are.
Enrique:Yeah another tip that we have when you're on flight, make sure that you check in your, you know in your airplane which of the restrooms or which of the laboratories in there have the changing tables for the baby, because not every restroom in the in the airplane are all equipped with a changing table. So let's say you know you're going to the back of the airplane and you're, oh, there's a restroom there and you go there up. No changing table up. Now we got to go back to the middle of the front and you know, maybe the middle one has a line or whatever and you could have it, you could have avoided some. So just make sure when you're boarding, okay, when you're going to yours, to your seat, check or asked, asked, you know the flight attendant, hey, which were other ones located with the With a changing table, and that's it.
Enrique:I think that will help also bring your own Changing mattress or changing whatever had changing pads.
Linda:I mean, I think that's the most. Most, I don't think. I think most parents have their changing pad and the diaper bag. Diaper bag, it's obviously like a most. If you don't have it, I'm not sure what you're thinking.
Enrique:Well, yeah, but but you know, some people just don't have a changing pad anyway.
Linda:Yeah well, changing pad the. The changing pad in the bathroom is I mean, obviously the bathrooms are small the?
Enrique:changing pad is very small very very.
Linda:Yeah, sorry, the changing table is very, very small and it's very difficult to maneuver there, even for a small person. I'm small, so even for me it was hard to maneuver the changing of the diaper in in that changing table. A good, important thing that I will think is a recommendation is to Only bring what you need to the bathroom, because the bathroom is very small and then if you bring a huge diaper bag, it's just not, I would have put it.
Linda:Yeah, there's no way to put it literally, and you cannot leave the door open, so it it helps to only bring to the bathroom the wipes, diapers and a changing of clothes, just in case I will.
Enrique:I will say those three things, I'm obviously the pad, the changing pad, those four things, that's it so another tip while you're in flight, when you're, when you're getting your ticket and you're getting a seat and you're gonna seat down over there, and then you're in your planes, in your plane seat, grab one depending on your preference. Right, there's some people that prefer to be on the aisle because obviously, if you need to go to the restroom, you need to check with the baby, maybe needs to go to the restroom to go to the diaper. You got to change that, for it's a lot easier than you have to like constantly go up until somebody to get out of the seat and etc. Etc. Etc. But other people might feel better having the baby sleep on the.
Enrique:The window on the window, just because I get, then you don't have to deal with that part, because if you sit on the aisle and there's somebody sitting on the window, for example, then if your baby's asleep and you want her to stay asleep and all of a sudden he's like I need to use the restroom, and then you have to get stand up with the baby and then she might wake up. You know, but if you have it on the window you don't have to deal with people telling you to like they need to go to the restroom and stuff like that. So Again, that's just a tip Just make sure what's your preference prior to boarding. Like I said, just just know which what you think is your is your better for you guys with this the window seat or the aisle? For you know the benefits that that might bring to you.
Linda:I think it depends on the stage of the baby. If the baby is very young that sleeps a lot, I will definitely pick the window because I want to keep that baby asleep as much as possible. If it's a baby that is very active, probably I will still pick the window because I will try to keep things contain the baby, a kid that goes to the bathroom a lot, probably not as much and I can even change the diaper there. Is it literally the same space that I will have in the bathroom? So have to trade off. I probably will go to the window, to be honest.
Enrique:The one thing extra. Another thing this is not like a tip, but it's just to tell you that, like no, don't be so Afraid about the the flight. A lot of people get nervous because you know, when you get to a baby, with your baby to a flight specifically, you're never flown with any type of baby before this, your first baby. You've never done any flights with the baby. You might feel a little bit stressed out that when you get into the plane You're gonna cause people around you Like if your baby starts crying, whatever that they're gonna get all upset and all this. Listen, I Think that's for us at least, that didn't happen. Everybody was pretty nice you know, it was really nice around us.
Enrique:I think for a lot of people they understand everybody. A lot of people have as hat kids or you know were kids or whatever. So they kind of understand the struggles, so they kind of sympathize with you. This doesn't mean that you might find some asshole in a flight that might get you know all pissy about it. But, like I said, nowadays almost everybody it's specifically fly a lot. Almost everybody has a pair of airpods or a pair of whatever Anybody can put out. Every time I take a flight I always bring my headphones with me. Anybody can put on those things with music or whatever, and you can kind of like isolate yourself from the rest of the world when you're in that plane. So there's ways a lot of people can manage with a baby that's screaming.
Enrique:But Just know that people, you have to travel, you have to travel, you have to travel and you can't leave your baby home. So Even though somebody might get mad about it or don't stress about it because you know what, what else are you gonna do? You know you're not there to just try to give somebody a bad time. If you're really subscribe, I mean, it's just what it is what it is. So people have to adapt to it.
Enrique:So you know, if you're, if you're a little bit like that, just know that for the most part I would say around 90% or 95% of people will probably be chill and there will actually Be happy and they'll they'll say, oh, what a cute baby, whatever. So you know I already understand. So nobody's gonna give you anything, any issues or whatever. If there is, well, just tell them to put some headphones on, whatever and the shut himself up. So don't, don't worry about that part to my. I feel like I wanted to talk to about this because I know what. I was one of them. I was a little bit like ooh, I didn't even sleep.
Linda:What if she gets crying? And then we had a situation there, you know, and I'm like after it happens.
Enrique:I'm like listen, whatever it is, it is what it is. If it happens, there's nothing we can do about it. We still gotta make the trip anyway. So, and I think, do you have anything else for flights? I mean, I think yes, pretty much sums it up. You have another one?
Linda:Yes, okay, well, linda has it make sure to bring all the food that you need. Especially if it's a long flight, you have to time all of your food. If you know your baby eats every two hours, make sure you have those two plus Extra just in case if the baby needs extra more. So I do remember that you mean bottles.
Enrique:Depend, well, in a dependent stage.
Linda:Yeah, in our case, in our case it was bottles, so we have six bottles of Formula she was still doing at that time she was doing formula and we use all six. If we wouldn't have only three, we would need more. So make sure you have all of your food and also if your baby is more awake or first flight was, she was so steep most of the times it was great, but the second flight she was awake a long time so we had to have Toys or stuff to keep her entertained.
Enrique:Did we had? Yeah, we did, we did have the phone with the, with the videos and stuff already or no?
Linda:I I'm not sure, I'm not sure.
Enrique:I think I did.
Linda:I'm not sure if we had phone with videos, but I do remember I had a lot of toys in her diaper bag and that's what I used to keep her entertained and then she fell asleep for a little bit, but most of the time she was either fussy eating or playing with toys.
Enrique:So again, that's car rides, that's a flight. So we have a third one that's cruises, and again this one, not a lot of people are going to be experiencing this one. I think that's just a little more niche, you know, because not everybody does cruises, not as much as flights, and sure hell, no damn, they're going to do one. A cruise with a baby, I mean, I don't think we would have. We would have done a cruise with a with a six month old anyway. I don't think so. We just did one with our baby was like 17, 16 months already, and her mother came in the trip. So that helped. But I don't think we would ever do in a trip with a six or younger cruise trip. I don't think we would have done it, cause you're literally stuck in a cruise for five, six days.
Enrique:I mean I think that'll be a lot. I think that'll be a lot, a lot harder you know away from your oldest stuff you have like the commodities, the commodities. And also you would have to, literally when that one, you do have to bring everything for those six days.
Linda:Yes.
Enrique:Because, again, like this is one of the situations. I told you that not every time you can go somewhere and you can buy stuff over there. If you're in a cruise, you got to bring everything. Yes, Because they know shopping. The crews are going to tell you hey, you can buy more diapers here.
Linda:Yeah, so I actually didn't even see a place that had diapers in the cruise. What are they?
Enrique:going to have that in there, maybe, maybe well, we didn't check Maybe, if you have like an emergency, maybe they have some in the medical department because you know they do have a medical bottom in the second, when I think it's the second day.
Linda:I think they know that most people are not.
Enrique:Yeah, but that's not you know the only way you can do is whenever you stop on a port.
Linda:Yeah.
Enrique:Maybe, when you stop on the port, go to the city and buy whatever you want that day. But I mean, but that's a really I mean it's not, it's not as easy, let's put it like that. So I don't think a lot of people would do this, but we're going to give you the. We're going to talk about our experience with a 17 month old. First of all, the first decision of making the trip was because her mother was coming.
Linda:Yeah, that's the first one, bring somebody else.
Enrique:Because that means that we had a little time to do stuff, because if not with the baby, you're not going to be able to enjoy the cruise as much, only activities during the day instead. But once the night hits you're done, because the baby goes to sleep around eight, around 7.38. You can push it a little longer if you're in a cruise, maybe, but she's probably going to be fuzzy. I don't know if you might, you might sleep her, yeah, maybe. Maybe it can work. But a lot of times she's going to have to sleep around eight, eight, 30, something like that.
Enrique:So any activities outside of that you're going to just have to stay in your room with her, because you're not just going to leave her in the room and go go do something yourself. You got somebody to stay with her in the room in case something happens. So the reason it helped for us was we brought her mom, so her mom was staying with her at night in her in her state room and we could go do stuff. That's just that. That's one thing, right, but let's just talk about other things.
Linda:That was a huge, huge help.
Enrique:That was like the primary decision we yes ended up doing the cruise with the baby.
Linda:Yeah, and even if you have to pay that extra ticket it.
Enrique:We paid her mom the ticket portion of it. Well, yeah, but I mean, we help her out, we help.
Linda:Yeah, but that that that does help.
Enrique:In this one tips that we found. So one thing is that the cruise, you know your cruise provider, whether it's Carnival, Royal Caribbean, Vikings, whatever cruise you take on Disney cruises, all of them, or most of them, will have cribs.
Enrique:So that's one small crib. So that's one thing you probably won't need to take If you need cribs, right, unless you know your baby's already old enough that she sleeps in beds and forget about this. But if it's like ours or younger, you're going to need a small crib or a crib. So they provide you the small crib, so you don't have to go and bring that with you.
Linda:And the sheets, so you don't have to bring sheets.
Enrique:That's a good thing. That's a good thing, right? They obviously they have sheets, any of that. You know they got the room service, so you know these guys come over to change everything, so they'll have sheets and stuff like that for that. So you're fine in terms of that. Okay, things you need Obviously, same things we talked about for the flight.
Enrique:You pretty much you're going to need most of them your diaper bag, bottles if you're giving them bottles, all this stuff you're going to have to bring it. Specifically, if you're doing formula or breast milk, still you're going to have to bring all that stuff. If you're giving your milk, that one the crew's going to have milk. You don't need to carry milk with just the bottles if that's the case. But you're going to need most of that. You know. Again, makeup and the cruise. The best thing about the cruises is there's no weight limit or no luggage limit like the airplanes. So this one, you can bring as much shit as you want. Obviously, make your don't bring so much shit that you can go anywhere because you got so much stuff you don't even know how to move. You know to the cruise or to your car or whatever you know still be reasonable, but the good thing is, you can bring more stuff. There's no extra cost.
Enrique:You know, they're going to get your stuff into your state room. When you get there, you can just give it to one of the porters in the bottom and they're going to bring it to you. So again, it's a lot easier in that regard to bring stuff with you to a cruise, since it's like a moving hotel. One thing cool we noticed about the milk. If it's not formula or press milk, If you go get milk and the thesis was incarnable, at least If the if you order or you call up and you get to your room and you call, hey, I need milk for my baby. Whatever, they're gonna charge you for that milk.
Enrique:So if you want free milk, go to when you have breakfast and you have a lunch and they put all this milk out there and grab packs of those milks and bring it to your refrigerator downstairs. That's kind of a dumb. When we when that first happened, I was like what the this is so dumb. They charge you for this, but you can just go and grab like six and put them in your restroom.
Enrique:I mean in your restroom, and you're in your, in your uh in your state room and put it in the fridge in your state room and you're fine. But if you order, if you order one or two through room service with the, with the phone, they charge for that. That's kind of dumb, but anyway they do that shit. So if you don't want to pay extra, just grab whenever you have your breakfast in the morning or lunch, grab a couple extra ones when you go back to your room, put them in there on the fridge and you just have extra for when you need them and you don't want to. You don't have to go out and grab something at that point. So that's just an interesting fact about the milk. Obviously I would bring the stroller, because a small one too.
Enrique:You can probably bring a bigger one, but I don't think it's a good idea, depending on the part you're on the cruise, if you're through those through the hallways to get to your state, when those are kind of small, so the big ones will be kind of iffy there. So probably a small one would still be better. But just bring it, because they're getting very cruises big you walk and stuff. It's good to have a stroller to specifically when the baby gets tired and she wants to go to sleep, you can just put her in there, right? I think it's pretty much similar to the fight.
Linda:No, I think we're missing a few things.
Enrique:I know we're missing some, but Okay.
Linda:so first thing and we didn't use as much but some block and some after sun cream, those two very important, especially if you really have sensitive skin, because even if you're just walking on the deck, the baby might have some burn. So that's one of them. The second and we didn't do it and I wish we would have done it Get the passport for the kid. We didn't have the passport.
Enrique:I know what you're talking about.
Linda:We only use. You need to have some documentation for babies and we use the birth certificate. I will not recommend to use the birth certificate. I will recommend to use a passport, and the reason for this is because there are two different lines. We both have passport. The baby have a certificate, so she needs to have a separate line.
Enrique:But let's explain that, because to get into the cruise wasn't the problem, it was to get out of the cruise.
Linda:Yes, but there is a process that could be avoided.
Enrique:I know, but this is mainly to get out of the cruise. But because to get in the cruise you still got to go through the area where you see all the stewardess or whatever, and then they have to give you your ID. So they have to just grab all your documentation and they give you the IDs for your state room and all the ones you're going to use to pay for. Everything in the cruise is to get out.
Linda:To get out was definitely a problem.
Enrique:There is a line where, if you have a passport there is even is you just do a facial thing. Yeah, we're just go there. It scans your face boop you're out, but obviously birth certificate. There is no photo of you, right? That's only in the passport, so you have to. There's a separate line for that. Yes, so that's what she's saying for the, for it just makes it a little more uncomfortable, more, just a little more annoying, because you have to do the you have to do two lines.
Enrique:That line takes longer than the other one where you go beep yeah, you just go by, so you know, and if she's saying for that.
Linda:Yeah, that's just very inconvenient.
Enrique:Yeah, so but once you're there, I mean, at least in our situation it wasn't to get out on the ports, it was easy. That even asked for anything to get on the ports. I don't remember having to show anything. Yeah, to get it, just your, your cruise ID. Yeah, it would scan that boop boop and that you go.
Linda:I think another thing that we have not mentioned when you're in the, in the cruise, is that there are a lot of aquatic stuff for kids, unfortunately, if your kid is not potty trained.
Enrique:Oh yeah.
Linda:They do not allow you to use anything.
Enrique:Any of the aquatics.
Linda:None of the aquatics, nothing, nothing, literally nothing, no pools, no kiddie pools. So I think there was kind of disappointing for for me at least, because I know my daughter loves water.
Enrique:So what Linda did?
Linda:I know.
Enrique:Is that she used one of those showers after you went to the pool or to any of these things. You know they got these showers out there to like you know raise yourself up, yeah. You could, she would, she would just turned out on it, she would have my daughter was so happy.
Linda:She was so happy even with that, and what we did is that I want to make sure that she she already started some potty trained, but can you give me a minute?
Enrique:Well, I just want to say something before you continue. Just, you know we agree with the whole. We know what they did, the whole. They don't let your kid go if they're not potty, because you know it would be kind of disgusting.
Linda:I know, I know, I understand that I do understand, just make.
Enrique:it make that clear.
Linda:Yeah, and I do understand, and I am we understand?
Enrique:that, but you know it was just a little disappointing because you didn't want to get around to that. I'll continue, please.
Linda:Okay. So the process for me to get her ready was I want to make sure that she went to party and I was starting to do some potty training, but she's not completely putty trained when that, when that trip happened. She's still not completely putty trained, to be honest, but I want to make sure that she have her poop poop completely done out of the way. And then after that I put there are disposable, and I didn't know that there are disposable water diapers, so I put one of those and I brought her the water area and she was very happy. She got very tired and she got a very nice nap after that. So that was great. But mostly she have a very good time in that shower. I would prefer to be on a pool, but it's okay, that's. That was my only option and she had a good time, so I'm very happy that I did it In terms of tips.
Linda:I mean, I think, I think that that covers most. That's about you know, wraps it right. I think, so. Oh, if you are going outside of the cruise, there is some kind of tracker that you can put to the baby. I know you're gonna be on top of the baby, but you never know. Just some kind of tracker that you can put to the baby, that will be very helpful. You hopefully might not need it, but you never know if you are?
Enrique:Are you talking about?
Linda:kidnapping and shit over here.
Enrique:Sort of you never know, she might even get lost. I'm not saying that the kid is gonna get kidnapped, hopefully. But maybe you lose the baby for a couple seconds, and then you. Hopefully this ain't an issue for you, but Hopefully I guess she's trying to give you a good tip if it does happen. But I mean, it's something. Hopefully nobody has to go through that.
Linda:Yeah, if by any second I lose my daughter from sight, I will freak that.
Enrique:But one thing that you could do that's not as dark as this is buy those little, that thingy that you put like a harness to her. It's like you were, it's like she's wearing a backpack and then she has a thing that like a little how do you call it? Like a little string, or cable. Not a cable, it's like a harness. It's like what you use to your dog, literally like what you use with your dog?
Linda:Well, she have an actual harness.
Enrique:But you can use that so that when you let her walk, she's tied to your wrist or something. Yes, put your hand. Yes, and she's not gonna just go off. Yes, that one's a little less dark than putting a tracker on her. That sounds like.
Linda:Well it's like this Apple tracker.
Enrique:No, you can put it under your pants.
Linda:You can put it under your shoes or the pants. Or you can put a. They sell these days this plastic bands that you can put it there as well.
Enrique:There's probably something, yeah, but anyway, this is a little less dark than that, okay.
Linda:I don't think it's dark, I think it's just safety.
Enrique:The reason of using it, the.
Linda:Extra precaution, the reason for using.
Enrique:it is a little dark, like what you're using.
Linda:It's just precaution, okay.
Enrique:Anyway, I think we covered all three things Car rides, flights, cruises if you happen to make a cruise.
Linda:And dark sides.
Enrique:And the dark side. Linda said. So, basically what she's saying is put an air tag on your tig and your kid Now where she goes, just put an air tag on her. Okay, anyway, we're just messing with her, but anyway, yes, that's about it for today, I think, and I think that covers for now our parenting series of three episodes, because obviously there's gonna be extra stuff that happens.
Linda:In the future.
Enrique:We might actually talk about it as we go through all these different stages. Hell, we don't even know, we might get it.
Linda:A whole library. Or a second kid what we don't know yet.
Enrique:We don't know yet if we want it or not.
Linda:But I'm not sure If it does happen we might need to do.
Enrique:we might get some news stories that we're gonna have to talk about, because now it's gonna be traveling with a baby and a toddler so that's gonna be make it a little extra interesting.
Enrique:More interesting, but for now, I think it was awesome to talk all these last three episodes about parenting. I think it's been a great experience for us and we keep learning every day from it. I hope that everybody here had a great time with us when we talked about these all these three different subjects, or these all these different things. I hope that you got something out of it. As always, make sure to, you know, subscribe to our podcast wherever you listen to it. Subscribe to our YouTube if you happen to also watch us over there. You know, hit us up on the Instagram. What's the Instagram, linda? You don't remember what's the podcast name? Linda, what's the podcast name? Oh my.
Linda:God Honey, let's do a podcast.
Enrique:Honey, let's do a podcast. See, I'm trying to make her talk. Sometimes Linda's like too quiet. I'm trying to make her talk a little more.
Linda:I'm an introvert.
Enrique:This is not a trick question.
Linda:I'm an introvert, please. Anyway, honey, let's do a podcast.
Enrique:You can reach us out on Instagram over there, and I think let's wrap it up, we'll see you next Wednesday. Guys, have a great night or a great day if it's day over there. Peace out.
Linda:Bye you.