{"id":294,"date":"2007-03-22T22:26:55","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T03:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/wordpress\/?p=294"},"modified":"2007-03-22T22:26:55","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T03:26:55","slug":"flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2007\/03\/22\/flights\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe flight out to Tallinn with Ingrid yesterday was a disaster. Minutes after we got on the plane, she decided she didn&rsquo;t like that place at all and burst into tears. The requirement to sit strapped in and facing forwards didn&rsquo;t help her mood either. She was so upset she couldn&rsquo;t even  breastfeed without choking (try drinking while you&rsquo;re crying!). After an hour she fell asleep. When it was time to strap in for landing I had to wake her again and of course she then cried again.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI was prepared for a rerun of the same performance on the flight back, but I got the exact opposite. She set off to charm everyone around her. There were a few whimpers as I woke her for takeoff. But after that she ate happily, played quietly, smiled at people around her, and didn&rsquo;t even fuss when a stewardess wanted to squeeze her irresistibly chubby legs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWho knows &ndash; maybe the first flight went wrong because she had to get up at 4 that morning, or because it was the first one. I fervently hope that future flights will be more like the second one!\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThings learned:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nYou can never have too many muslins.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nA sling is great for getting around, but not great for taxi rides.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nYou will neither need nor have time for any entertainment (like books or magazines) when flying alone with a baby.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nNappies take up lots of space. For any trip longer than a day, take enough nappies for the flights and buy more when you arrive.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flight out to Tallinn with Ingrid yesterday was a disaster. Minutes after we got on the plane, she decided she didn&rsquo;t like that place at all and burst into tears. The requirement to sit strapped in and facing forwards didn&rsquo;t help her mood either. She was so upset she couldn&rsquo;t even breastfeed without choking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ingrid_johanna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}