I am quite used to travelling, having visited more than 30 countries, but with two babies it is quite a different game and I am a bit nervous about that (especially long flights, jet lag, but also hygiene and health safety over there) !!!
I will be travelling with my husband so we’ll be two adults with the two babies. I am mostly concerned with the oldest one (which will turn two years old) as he seems to be already in his “terrible two” phase (hahaha). The other one I am planning on breastfeeding but might have to introduce cereals while travelling as he will have between 5 months 1/2 and 6 months 1/2.
Again, I really really appreciate any tips and comments and thank so much for putting it as an “Ask Shelly” on your blog !!!
Have a good day,
Caroline
Keep a supply of travel-size anti-bacterial hand wipes ready as places to wash hands can be much harder to find in these areas, and you’ll need to be prepared for many strangers touching the hands of your children in admiration–in addition to whatever else your little ones may put their own hands to. You may also find it much simpler to just continue breastfeeding exclusively through your trip for a variety of reasons, food and water safety among them. I think it always wise in situations like yours to also look at a traveler’s medical evacuation insurance plan (like Medjet) as a back-up in the event that any member of your family, child or adult, should need serious medical treatment–you’ll all get a private and expeditious ride to the hospital of your choice back home.
Good luck! We’d love to hear how it goes for you and any tips you have for the rest of us after your return.
Related posts and pages:
Breastfeeding in Bangkok
Photo Fave: Thailand elephant with baby
FAQs and Popular Topics
Safe journeys,
Shelly Rivoli, author of the award-winning Travels with Baby and Take-Along Travels with Baby
travelswithbaby.com facebook twitter pinterest about the author
Curious about this content? See my editorial content disclosure.
4 comments
Thanks everyone for your great advices !!
Caroline – I just returned from a holiday to Thailand with my 16mo old. I'd always heard about Thailand being kid-friendly, but even though I've visited Thailand numerous times I did not appreciate it until I actually had a child in tow. Even Thai security guards that we passed by on the street would coo at my son. That said, depending on where you go, navigating a stroller might be difficult (the sidewalks of Bangkok often have utility boxes in the middle of them, which makes actually passing through them difficult). I'd recommend a baby carrier – for a younger baby I prefer a wrap (most comfortable for parent, easy pop-in and out, lightweight) and for an older baby/toddler I think the Boba Baby Carrier is super comfortable. Hope that helps!
On our last trip a travel Magna Doodle was my 2-year-old's favorite toy. I'd also recommend getting your toddler excited by telling them they can have something on the airplane that they can't normally have (for us apple juice worked wonderfully). We always pick up several small, cheap toys and wrap them in newspaper and pull out a new one every few hours. Unwrapping it takes a while and it helps to have new things.
We brought along small spoons and forks to help with eating and a Bibbity bib which is easy to wipe off and keep using. For starting solids with your baby – if you find large stores in big cities you can probably find packaged baby food. Otherwise if you're comfortable with it, just figure out what people in the countries you're traveling to feed small babies and that will be readily available!
Since we had to take a car seat along we loved the Traveling Toddler Car Seat Accessory which straps your car seat onto a wheeled suitcase, thus functioning as a stroller to get through the airports. We used a EllaRoo wrap for our younger child.
Hope that helps a bit!
Shelly:
I work with New Year Publishing, a small company who has published three
children's books written by a now 11 year old author about her experience with travels around the world and the birth of her twin sisters.
The author, Paris Morris, has a series of travel books about her experiences visiting different cities, lushly colored and full of little vignettes which children might enjoy enroute to a destination. Her latest is about San Francisco.
Her previous books, "I'm Having Twins" and "My Twins are Coming Home," have been best sellers on Amazon and we just released "My Twins' First Birthday."
You can learn more about this amazing young author, Paris Morris, and her books
at http://www.myfriendparis.com
We will be happy to send you a copy if you'd like to review it! Some of your readers might like to give copies to their children during long plane flights or train rides.
Please reach us at publisher@newyearpublishing.com
Thank you very much,
Cristina Deptula
—
Dave Morris
New Year Publishing
925-348-0481
877-697-7323 (NYP-READ)
http://www.newyearpublishing.com
http://www.myfriendparis.com
Comments are closed.