Hi all,

I will be travelling to India this Sep with my dd by cathay Pacific. She will be exactly one year by that time. I need some help on feeding her and on managing the kid in the plane. Pl. experienced may give some help.
1. She prefers to eat only the foods of our taste. I give her rice with dal twice , ragi and gerber . what to give her since rice and ragi i can not carry, and she doesn't like gerber powdered cereal .
2. How to feed her as we don't have any car seat or high chairs there and semi liquids can be fed easily if the sitting position is comfortable to the baby. we were reserved with bassinet of course.
3. she is still on my feed but i am trying to give her bottle once these days. she takes it in her sleep and when she is too hungry. hw can we sterilise them ?
4. what if she refuses to take bottle, do i hv to throw the formula? here at home, i keep it in the fridge and then warm it.
5. how to maintain the time table as we are not aware of day and night there. she doesn't take milk during night for 5 to 6 hrs.
thanx in advance.
sha Mom replied. I travelled to India recently with my one year old daughter and she is the same like your daughter, like only homemade food. I just took it easy and gave her gerber fruits and vegetables whenever she was hungry. My daughter slept most of the time in the flight both ways so what I did was give her formula every three to four hours in her sleep and when we stopped over at hongkong gave her gerber fruit and then I gave her lot of Finger foods, crackers, fruit juice snacks when she was awake. She just held them and ate.
I took lot of sippy cups for her so that you don't sterilise/wash in the flight. Try to aviod washing in the flight water and feeding the baby. If your daughter is on Bottle with nipples take disposable bottles that will help you and they are safe to.
Do not store the formula, just throw it if she refuses. Just take it easy since babies do not have much activity in the flight they will not be very hungry like normal day. So just feed when she is hungry, don't worry about normal timetable.

My 2 cents.