Preparing for Vacation
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If you’re like me, you’re getting ready to pack up the kids and head off on a summer vacation. We’re going to hop on an airplane and travel to California to visit family for a couple of weeks. The kids love going to the beach, but if you ask what my daughter’s very favorite thing about California is she’ll emphatically tell you that it’s meeting the Princesses at Disneyland.
I’ve traveled back and forth with the kids to California a few times, sometimes alone and sometimes with my husband. All in all I generally dread the process because I don’t like to think about all the potential issues that can happen when you take two young children and stick them in a chair for a few hours.
The biggest piece of advice I can bring for travelers with babies and young children is this: Bring some Tylenol. No, not for the headache you’ll inevitably get, but just in case your baby or child suddenly gets a fever on the plane. This happened to my daughter once when she was around two years old. We were about an hour away from landing and all of a sudden she got a really high fever and became incredibly lethargic. We had packed Tylenol, but it was in the checked baggage.
The pilot offered an emergency landing but warned us we would be financially liable for the extra costs associated with landing a plane in a different airport. We cooled her down with wet towels and kepy giving her cold water to drink. After the plane hit the ground her fever subsided and by that evening she was fine. I don’t know if there is such a thing as air-sickness with regards to fever, but if there is then I guess this is what she had.
Before you hop on the plane be sure to grab a small bottle of infant or children’s Tylenol or some other fever reducer and put it in your bag. You never know when you might need it.
brit says...
Yikes, how scary. Glad it ended well. I always took tylenol on plane rides but I never knew why. Guess this is why!