Flying with a 6 month old
We are taking a trip to Arizona in the spring, baby will be 6 months. We’ll be flying from Detroit, MI to Phoenix, AZ, which is 2, if not 3 time zones behind (depending on when DST starts). For anyone who has flown with a baby, if you had a choice, would you schedule the flight for early afternoon, two hours before bedtime, or at bedtime? We’re planning on buying her a seat and bringing her car seat.
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When my daughter was little, I tried to take flights at night. She could be up or fall asleep as I wore her on my chest through the airport and then once we were seated and she’d latch she’d go to bed. When we landed and got to family house she might wake up & that’s fine to see people or she’d sleep through with the car ride and what not anyways
First time mama and we flew with our daughter when she was about 6 months old. I was also exclusively pumping every 3-4 hours and she had 2-3 naps a day scheduled at the time. So we decided to base our flight times on those specifics to keep her naps and feeding schedule as close as possible).
Baby’s brain will still be on whatever schedule you have them on in your time zone, I’d try to schedule the flight during their nap if you can. In my experience, my kiddo has never slept on night time flights (flown at 2mo, 6mo, 9mo, 15mo, etc), but she will sleep on flights during nap time.
My son has to travel from Ohio to California 6 times . He been traveling since he was 5 months and now 2 years old . When he was 5 months first flight I got the earliest fight wake him and play with him in morning prior to leaving the house / I wouldn’t fed him a complete bottle till we got on the plane after take off . Then he would fall asleep. Time difference did not affect him .
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