Josh and I traveled tooday to Florida to visit Grandmom and Grandpop. It will be a nice visit and we will get to see his Bubby Evelyn as well. It will be the first time that my grandmother gets to meet her Great Grandson, and I know she is really excited.
As much as I was looking forward to the trip, I was not looking forward to the flight. Lugging all the stuff plus the baby was going to be a challenge. Plus, who knew how Josh was going to behave. I had 2 big suitcases plus a carry-on, boppy, baby bjorn, and the stroller. The airline let Keith come to the gate with me. Very nice of them, especially with the added security. It was a huge help as just getting through security was a challenge. I had to take the car seat out of the stroller, fold the stroller, and put the stroller and car seat on the conveyer belt while holding Josh through security. Fun Fun Fun. I brought the BabyBjorn so I could put Josh in that to carry him on the plane. Luckily, the plane wasn't 100% full so I got to bring the car seat on the plane and give Josh his own seat.
Well, the separate seat for Josh turned out to be a car seat holder, and he spent the whole plane ride on my lap. When I sat down, I layed Josh on the Boppy, put the nursing cover over me, and started to nurse him. The notion was that he would be feeding when the plane took off and would not be bothered with his ears during take off. Well, I started feeding him too soon. By the time we did take off, he was done eating and just hanging on there "grazing". Joshua ate too much. This led to lots and lots of spit up all over him and and some on me for the first half of the flight. I felt bad for Joshua and also for the man sitting on the aisle who was witnessing all of this. Since I was prepared, I had a change of clothes for him and changed him into something dry on the plane.
Josh was pretty good though. He hardly cried or fussed for the 2 1/2 hour flight. (Minus the spit up). I managed to not have to change his diaper during the flight. (There is no way I would have been able to get out of my seat). He didn't seem to complain about that either. Hopefully the man on the aisle seat didn't seem to notice Josh's baby fresh scent was not so fresh at the end of the flight. :)
On the landing, there was no way I was giving Josh more food. So, I gave him a pacifier and that did the trick as well. Josh didn't seem to complain about his ears popping.
Grandmomand Grandpop met us at baggage claim, and they were so excited to see their new grandson. I am now "second fiddle".
No comments:
Post a Comment