HELP:Young Kids on Intercontinental Flight

[Galaril]

I will be relocating back to the Boston area after living overseas in Asia for 11 years and got a question. Does anyone have any advice for slowing down a young kid on a 18 hour airplane flight. Our daughter is 2 1/2 years old and are wondering if there is any safe thing to give her to help her sleep on the flight other than a couple of shots of Jack.

[NoMyths]

Tranquilizer darts.

Alternately, figure out whatever pill they always gave B.A. Baracas and slip 'er some of them.

[JPhillips]

Benadril.

My wife and are adopting from China and I am dreading the flight back with our baby and eight to ten others. I really pity the poor bastards stuck on our flight.

[JeeberD]

I second the Benadril suggestion. It'll knock 'em the fuck out...

[stkelly52]

Not that this really matters, but the title should be Inter-Continental. Trans-Continental flights are cross country.

I aggree with Benadril, but that will only take you so far. Get a portable DVD player and start teaching her now how to watch a movie with headphones on. Bring plenty of her favorite videos on the plane, that will help as well.

Also, go ahead and let her run up and down the aisles during the flight. It will bug the other passengers to a lesser degree than keeping her strapped into her seat and screaming will.

Bring plenty of snacks and drinks, particularly for the landing and takeoff which will hurt her ears.

[Galaril]

Originally Posted by stkelly52

Not that this really matters, but the title should be Inter-Continental. Trans-Continental flights are cross country.

I aggree with Benadril, but that will only take you so far. Get a portable DVD player and start teaching her now how to watch a movie with headphones on. Bring plenty of her favorite videos on the plane, that will help as well.

Also, go ahead and let her run up and down the aisles during the flight. It will bug the other passengers to a lesser degree than keeping her strapped into her seat and screaming will.

Bring plenty of snacks and drinks, particularly for the landing and takeoff which will hurt her ears.

Yeah thanks that makes sense the Intercontinental thing.

[damnMikeBrown]

Just tell her that if she misbehaves, the plane will crash and she'll kill everybody. It will be all her fault.

Worked well the last time I flew. Told that to the little boy behind me. His Mom, sitting next to him, seemed really angry that she hadn't thought of it herself! I think she told the stewardess about the great idea, because after she called one over, they both moved. I think they went around telling the other parents about my great idea!

[Bee]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Benadril.

My wife and are adopting from China and I am dreading the flight back with our baby and eight to ten others. I really pity the poor bastards stuck on our flight.

You're adopting 8 to 10 kids? I know China has a population problem but dude...you don't have to solve it alone.

[Franklinnoble]

Originally Posted by damnMikeBrown

Just tell her that if she misbehaves, the plane will crash and she'll kill everybody. It will be all her fault.

Worked well the last time I flew. Told that to the little boy behind me. His Mom, sitting next to him, seemed really angry that she hadn't thought of it herself! I think she told the stewardess about the great idea, because after she called one over, they both moved. I think they went around telling the other parents about my great idea!

Bah. My son would call that bluff right away, and giggle hysterically the whole time.

[gottimd]

Originally Posted by Bee

You're adopting 8 to 10 kids? I know China has a population problem but dude...you don't have to solve it alone.

I smell a sweat shop in the works!

[Dutch]

Originally Posted by gottimd

I smell a sweat shop in the works!

Don't let Martha find out about it or she might snuff you out.

[stevew]

Originally Posted by NoMyths

Tranquilizer darts.

Alternately, figure out whatever pill they always gave B.A. Baracas and slip 'er some of them.

Definately watch some A-Team for some ideas. Slip something in your milk, and then when she is suspicious of her milk, she will drink yours, and be out the whole flight. Conversely, if you drink the milk, you won't have to deal with her the whole flight as you will be knocked out.

[Desnudo]

I have no idea, but I am thankful I will not be on your flight.

[Franklinnoble]

Duct tape.

[JPhillips]

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[wishbone]

For a cross-country flight with our (at the time) 1 year old, our pediatrician recommended benadryl. She had us test for a paradoxical effect (where the medicine has the opposite effect) first and we knocked the kid out for about half the flight. Try sitting next to older grandparent types if you can spot them, we did and they were more understanding and tolerant of the various issues we had. It kind of made their day to hold our son too which was nice as it gave us a break. You should also call the airline or check their website and see what they do to accomodate families. Meal timin and pre boarding services really help.

[Franklinnoble]

For a flight that long, I don't know what to recommend. For cross-country trips, we've had good luck taking redeye flights... the little ones just crash out right after takeoff...

[DeToxRox]

I'd suggest head phones and sleeping pills.

Once you're out, she's someone elses problem.

[Marc Vaughan]

Originally Posted by Galaril

I will be relocating back to the Boston area after living overseas in Asia for 11 years and got a question. Does anyone have any advice for slowing down a young kid on a 18 hour airplane flight. Our daughter is 2 1/2 years old and are wondering if there is any safe thing to give her to help her sleep on the flight other than a couple of shots of Jack.

I've flown with young kids before and I don't envy you - I'd recommend taking her favourite toys and flying Virgin (if possible) because they have films local to the seats on such flights if it hasn't changed in the last couple of years .... a disney movies normally helps a lot.

[Glengoyne]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Benadril.

My wife and are adopting from China and I am dreading the flight back with our baby and eight to ten others. I really pity the poor bastards stuck on our flight.

One of my best friends and his wife did this six or eight years ago, and they returned on a flight from China to LAX with 21 adopted babies who were still just getting to know their new families. It was apparently brutal, and that didn't even come from one of the unlucky bastards randomly stuck on the flight.

[sterlingice]

Originally Posted by Franklinnoble

Duct tape.

Ok, so maybe you want to poke some air holes in it but I can't be expected to think of everything.

SI

[DeToxRox]

Originally Posted by Critch

Sound proof container and bung them in the overhead baggage thing.

That's fucking horrible.

Peoples luggage could get stinky.

[Critch]

Sound proof container and bung them in the overhead baggage thing.

[st.cronin]

Why not just check the kid? That'll also give you some more 'spread out space.'

[Galaril]

Next question this one is from Mrs. Galaril. Any suggestion on how to clean up a baby after she has taken a dump on a flight.She is still in diapers.It is a good question those airplane bathrooms are almost too small for me to take a shit. I guess as Robin Williams once said trying to clean baby shit with those little handie wipes is liking handling nuclear watse with oven mitts.

[Eaglesfan27]

Benadryl is the only thing that I would recommend as safe at that age that you can get OTC. However, be warned that about 10% of children under the age of 13 have a paradoxical reaction and become MORE hyper on Benadryl.

[stkelly52]

Originally Posted by Galaril

Next question this one is from Mrs. Galaril. Any suggestion on how to clean up a baby after she has taken a dump on a flight.She is still in diapers.It is a good question those airplane bathrooms are almost too small for me to take a shit. I guess as Robin Williams once said trying to clean baby shit with those little handie wipes is liking handling nuclear watse with oven mitts.

Every intercontanental flight that I have been on always has at least one bathroom with a changing table. It is usually the same one that is handicap accessable. First chance you get figure out which one or if there are several that you can use.

Don't use those little bitty wet wipes, spend the extra money to get Huggies' or Pampers' 7x7.5 inch wipes. They are worth every penny, particularly in cases like this. Also bring your own pad to put on the changing table because planes don't have the paper ones, and as a former cleaner of those planes I can attest to the fact that they don't often get cleaned.

If all else fails, flip up the armrest between two seats and do it there (again, use your pad so that the seat doesn't get crap on it). People may not like to see you changing a diaper in near them, but it is all part of life and your baby needs to be taken care of.

You can dispose of the diaper in the restroom trash can. Even if it stinks, it is a bathroom, it is supposed to stink.

[stkelly52]

Originally Posted by Eaglesfan27

Benadryl is the only thing that I would recommend as safe at that age that you can get OTC. However, be warned that about 10% of children under the age of 13 have a paradoxical reaction and become MORE hyper on Benadryl.

Good point, also, I have a good friend whose son is severly alergic to Benadryl. Make sure that you give her some several days ahead of time to see what her reaction is. You don't want to discover at 30,000 feet that she has a bad reaction to the medicine.

[randal7]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Benadril.

My wife and are adopting from China and I am dreading the flight back with our baby and eight to ten others. I really pity the poor bastards stuck on our flight.

Threadjack:

What agency are you using? Do they require both parents to travel? Also, I would be interested in a full report after you are back.