I flew much further than Paris with a 7 month old and a 2 1/2 year old. Latter had an ear infection and I spent hours on that onerous journey covered in sticky pink amoxicillin. What made it easier was that I was nursing the infant; bottle feeding doesn’t get the same suction level that helps keep tiny Eustachian tubes open. And I guess meds worked, so neither child spent the flights crying and screaming, thank goodness. Made the return journey alone without my husband, and again, breast feeding was my friend. People who were appalled to see a young mother alone with two young children board the flight thanked me when we got off, as there was not a peep out ot the two of them the whole way. So commenters who note that breast feeding makes air travel with infants much easier are correct, based on my experience. But would I have done it with a newborn? No way in heck! you are yourself healing from an ordeal at that point in motherhood. I note that many commenters are concerned about the infant’s health, but what about the mother? Consider the risk to a breast-feeding newborn whose mother becomes ill and cannot nurse and care for her child.

I flew much further than Paris with a 7 month old and a 2 1/2 year old. Latter had an ear infection and I spent hours on that onerous journey covered in sticky pink amoxicillin. What made it easier was that I was nursing the infant; bottle feeding doesn’t get the same suction level that helps keep tiny Eustachian tubes open. And I guess meds worked, so neither child spent the flights crying and screaming, thank goodness. Made the return journey alone without my husband, and again, breast feeding was my friend. People who were appalled to see a young mother alone with two young children board the flight thanked me when we got off, as there was not a peep out ot the two of them the whole way. So commenters who note that breast feeding makes air travel with infants much easier are correct, based on my experience. But would I have done it with a newborn? No way in heck! you are yourself healing from an ordeal at that point in motherhood. I note that many commenters are concerned about the infant’s health, but what about the mother? Consider the risk to a breast-feeding newborn whose mother becomes ill and cannot nurse and care for her child.

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