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From: simon@elwood.DEC (Product Safety 237-3521)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: Help! - Long flight with baby
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 11:43:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 11:43:33 1985
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I flew once from Rome to New York with a 2 month old baby.  Though it 
was not People Express, we flew PanAm, the service was not much better. 
First, the plane was full, not a single vacant seat.  When we asked for 
any kind of a hanging crib which I saw once on a Soviet plane a few 
years ago, we were told that safety and insurance regulations do not 
allow such devices aboard American planes.  So we got stuck with a baby 
on the laps for the whole flight -- nine hours.

We took turns with my wife to hold the baby, which gave us a chance to 
get at least some rest.  We occupied the two seats next to tthe window, 
where on L1011's and DC10's there are only two seats abreast between 
the wall and the isle, which gave us an easy access to the isle without 
disturbing other people and not much problem for us.  It also allowed 
my wife to breast fed the baby without beeing disturbed.  Our friends, 
who flew with their baby the same route a few weeks before us, had to 
go to a lavatory for baby breast feeding.

So be prepared.  The only advice I can give is to have a bottle of 
water ready during take-off and climing up, and then during going down. 
Barometric pressure changes in the cabin which an adult may not notice 
will bother a baby.  A sip of water will help to equlize (sp?) the 
pressure inthe ears.

Have a good flight!

Leo Simon


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