11/06/2026
If you’re scared, dont be 🫶🏼 I know when they’re in the toddler phase it’s harder, but I can’t recommend more to travel lots in their first year of life
Comment “TRAVEL” to get a round up of everything we brought for travel essentials, medicine/remedies, and entertainment ✈️ 🔗
We’ve done several trips of various lengths and travel times and time differences from 3 months to 12 months thus far, and once you get the hang of it that first time it’s smooth! We’re fully taking advantage of the lap child phase 😜
📝 a few other notes and things I’d do differently:
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stroller / car seat: when she was younger we took the doona. For this trip we did the bc it’s compact and lightweight and has a lot of recline so they can nap on the go. We had rental cars most of our trip through and just pre-requested a car seat
sleeping: we requested cribs/pack and play with our hotels and air bnb. I did NOT bring her crib sheet and I wish I did bc one of the hotels used super strong fragrences laundry detergent 😣
more on sleep: my advice is to not withhold sleep or try to time it any certain way to adjust with the time difference bc it’ll likely backfire. Let them sleep when they sleep bc they are more tired and not getting the same amount or quality as usual. They may take shorter but more frequent naps. Let them get what they can!
Medicine: I brought stuff for cough, saline drops and snot sucker, ear drops, skin repair, diaper rash paste (all linked if you comment TRAVEL) ‼️ but what I wish I brought was a thermometer and baby nausea and fever meds just in case! Luckily the Italian pharmacies had some great stuff we ended up getting but didn’t need to use in the end
Side note: we booked airfare with our points which lead us to and the flight attendants were ABOVE AND BEYOND. One of them asked if she could walk around with Gia (I said sure bc how far could she go🤪)and she ended up falling asleep in her arms! Sweetest thing in the entire world