Can a few months old baby fly? There is a lot of noise on the plane, so you must protect your baby's ears. Some families are born in foreign countries and then fly back to China, so what should be paid attention to when they are born?
How old can a baby fly?
Air China stipulates that babies born for more than 14 days and in good health can fly. Newborn within 7 days of birth. As the lungs of the newborn are not fully opened, the capillaries are fragile, and the body's tolerance to changes in air pressure, gravity and other factors is weak, it is not suitable to take the opportunity.
Do you need to buy a ticket for the baby to fly?
1. A baby needs to buy a ticket to fly.
According to the relevant provisions of the civil aviation department, 14-2-year-old infants need to buy Infant tickets for flying, the price is 10% of the full adult ticket price, free of airport construction fee and fuel surtax, but no onboard seats are provided. If you need a separate seat, you should buy a child ticket for your baby.
2. The number of infants that can be guaranteed on each flight is limited. Generally, only five infants can be carried on at the same time. Especially in the period of large passenger flow, such as holidays, mothers who go to the United States to have children must, at the same time of buying adult tickets, put forward the demand of buying infant tickets to the ticket office.
Take special care to protect your little ears when flying!
For babies, it is very important to protect the eardrum during flight, because the eardrum of babies is thinner than that of adults, and the pressure they can bear is much smaller.
When taking the baby on the plane, we should take correct and effective measures to let the baby's eustachian tube open when the plane takes off and lands, so as to prevent the occurrence of aero otitis media.
Specific measures:
1. Feed the baby with milk or snacks during takeoff and landing, so that the baby can swallow fully.
2. Crying is conducive to opening the baby's eustachian tube, so it is not necessary to stop it.
3. Do not let the baby sleep when the aircraft takes off or lands, because the possibility of air pressure injury of eardrum will be greatly increased during sleep.
How does darling appear airsickness to do?
Cause: from takeoff, bumps, climbs, drops, turns and even landing in the flight process may cause baby airsickness, while baby's physical discomfort and fatigue before taking the flight may also cause airsickness.
Prevention: prevention of airsickness is not complicated. In the first night before boarding, to ensure that the baby's health and adequate sleep rest.
If possible, choose a seat far away from the engine and close to the engine window for the baby to reduce noise and expand vision. In the flight, you should try to do something that attracts your baby's attention, such as making him talk, reading stories to him, listening to music, etc.
Treatment: when the baby is airsick, you can continue to do something to attract the baby's attention or guide the baby to look out of the window.
Put a cool wet towel on the baby's forehead. Experienced mothers can also try to pinch the Neiguan point with their thumb (Neiguan point is at the palm of the wrist joint, between two transverse fingers and two tendons on the transverse line of the wrist), which can reduce the airsickness symptoms of the baby.
If the reaction is too serious, the medical personnel of the crew shall be immediately found to deal with it.
What should be prepared for baby by plane!
1. Travel food: if you are a breastfeeding mother, you must prepare enough drinking water for yourself, but you should pay special attention to hot drinks when flying to prevent the aircraft from shaking or accidentally scalding your baby;
If it's milk powder feeding, take enough milk powder to drink on the plane before going out. It's better to brew and put the heat preservation bag in the waiting room. If there is no condition, you can also tell the air attendant to prepare drinking water before the feeding time. The water temperature is the safest at room temperature. Before feeding, you must use the back of your hand to test the milk temperature.
2. Care products: bring enough diapers (at least enough for you to buy new ones after you arrive at the destination) and bags for dirty diapers. Baby special fiber cleaning cotton and hip cream can make baby's buttocks stay fresh and comfortable during the journey.
3. Travel toys: bring your baby's favorite toys, such as placating the bear, to help him cope with the boring journey, but not too much, or you will be in a hurry.