Coming for a reccie in 8 days!!!

[snifter]

Amazing advice, thanks so much. I have booked our seats so that is taken care of, I am hoping for bulk head when we check in tho my 1 year old is massive so we can't use the crib anyway so not sure what to do there.

I will def take his sleeping bag, great idea - thinking of swim and shower in SIngapore as we have a 4 hr lay over so hopefully it will all go to plan - however the little one has had a temperature today so am a bit worried about him and the flight. I'll see how it goes tonight and I might book an emergency appt at the docs in the morning so I get some just in case medicine.

Wish me luck, don't want a poorly child.

Glad it's of use :) You should be able to book a bulkhead seat for the crib. We knew from the day we booked our tickets exactly what seats we would haven flying out. Although that was with BA, Qantas will request you get a bulkhead but they won't tell you which one. They also prioritise by age if there are more requests than cribs. They are pretty big cribs so your 1 year old should fit fine. They take up the length of 2 seats almost. Our almost 2 year old fitted in one, although his legs were a bit bent up. And he is on the larger/longer side.

FWIW I took our son to see the Doctor 2 days before we were due to fly as he had been off colour over a weekend. He was then diagnosed with a bad ear infection. That Doctor advised us strongly not to fly and to delay our flight out by at least 3-4 days. As this would have landed us slap bang in the middle of the BA strikes and no hope of getting on a plane then I took the executive decision of putting him on the antibiotics straight away and going back 24 hours later for another check up. This time I saw another Doctor (a lady and a parent) and she said the bad ear was looking better, the good one, worse However, she did say if it was her travelling out she'd chance it and fly. A woman with my way of thinking.

We'd heard the worse case scenarios (ear drum perforating or a pained screaming child the entire flight) and hubby and I talked it over and decided to fly anyways. If it had been to Spain we'd have delayed, but out to Australia, it wasn't so easy to do that. He would have had 48 hours of antibiotics in his system by the time we took off and they work really quickly in kids. We kept him on Calpol/Nurofen every 4 hours for the flight also. And earplugs. He was fine. Slept loads as we flew overnight, didn't scream, cry or fuss at all. Was amazing all things considered. In fact, easiest flight I've ever had with a kid :v_SPIN:

Hope your little one perks up by the morning :)

[Peachie]

The crib will be fine
my son was 18months and staff said he was too big I argued so they let me try his bum to head fit and his legs were over the side (he always slept in daft lookking positions!!) he slept brill only prob was the baby food they gave him was a sour looking porrage he wanted normal food a kids lunch would have been fine but cos he was under 2 they gave him a baby meal (suitible for 4 month old ) he ate all our snacks and fruit so was fine but he scoffed loads of toast at singapore airport PS the toast stand is brill dead cheap my kids have been 3 times now and love it toast followed by huge slabs of banana cake !!
x

[snifter]

That's a bit crap Peachie. About the food for your son. Our son was 21 months last time we flew out and we ordered a childs meal for him when we booked our tickets. Got them all the way through both legs of the flight. Didn't have any problems ordering or anything.