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Yes. I would probably, but be really scared of the jetlag again! But I hear it's easier to go East than West for the LOs to adjust to the time change, so I'm tempted to do Asia or Australia. And I wouldn't go for a less than a week and half or two weeks. It took K 8 days to adjust going there. But only ~ 2 days to adjust getting home.

No plans to go international until the kids are older, but we'll be going to Hawaii in the meantime and that will be a huge time zone change.

We've flown several times internationally with LO. We flew from tokyo to Hawaii when she was 4 months old. It was super easy because I was breastfeeding and she slept through a lot of the flight. We flew from tokyo to hongkong and from hongkong to Beijing when she was 10 months old. It wasn't so bad. She still couldn't walk but she liked to stand by our legs. We took pouches and snacks to keep her occupied.

Our most stressful flight so far was Beijing to Chicago when she was 15 months old. She was walking and she still had a short attention span so movies and cartoons didn't really keep her occupied. She also had a hard time sleeping. On the way back I had to do the flight with her alone because DH had to return a couple weeks before us. The younger they are, the easier it is to fly.

@chopsuey: I considered it when my husband went to Italy for work, too. In the end I decided it wouldn't be as enjoyable with an infant (Chloe was 6 months old, I think??). I imagined long days and lots of travel, and the selfish part of me didn't want to take a break in our day for naps.

We are dying to go and plan to travel internationally once our kids are older and can enjoy the trip.

We just did 2 weeks ago!!! LO was 7 months old and we went to Barbados. Two 3.5 hr flights with a connection in Miami. The flight down was really easy because we went early early; flight home was total hell because it was late and we were stuck in immigration/passport control/customs with a SCREAMING BANSHEE of a child (although we got bumped to the front of every line.....). It was really nice because we didn't have to plan meals around her naps since we had a kitchen to make stuff at home.

I travelled solo with her to the UK when she was 6 months, then DH and I took her to Spain and then England when she was 9 months. I kept her on our time zone as much as I could and it helped so much! That was easy in Spain as dinner etc happens later anyway. It was harder in England though but I was so grateful I'd done it when we got back to Canada as she was hardly jet lagged at all. Our biggest struggles were the heat of Spain - even coming from a boiling Canadian summer she really struggled. Also family were all over her and mostly she just wanted her mama. I would absolutely go to Italy! Food will be easy, transit is great, cou.

Not yet but hopefully next year. We just flew for the first time with DD (3 mo) two weeks ago. She didn't sleep at all, and I spent the entire flight dreading a meltdown. Luckily, it was a short flight! I'm just hoping she will start napping besides on a walk before we attempt an international flight!

We flew internationally when DD was 7-8 months old. It was tough, especially since she was on meds and needed to be lathered in lotion constantly back then. But she fit into the cubby they have for lap infants. However, she didn't sleep much in it. I basically had to hold her the entire time (a little tricky while you're trying to eat, hehe).

But I have a feeling that will be nothing compared to how she'd travel now. She no longer naps on me and when she cries, there's no soothing her sometimes. I feel bad for whoever is sitting near us this Feb! But it's a short flight filled with babies, so she won't be the only one crying. *fingers crossed*

We are actually visiting home (NYC) from Hong Kong. Our LO is 7 months and he's doing as well as a baby can with a long flight and complete time change. I don't have him on his usual schedule and he's tired all the time. So we let him sleep whenever he wants and he's doing alright. I'm totally tired though, I'll let you know how he adjust when we go back to HK!

What time of year will you go to Italy? The summers can be really horrible depending on where and when you go. My husband has been there twice for business this summer.

Omg I didn't notice how old this thread was! Sorry!!

Yes, but we haven’t done a major time zone change with her. She already wakes up at the crack of dawn as it is, so messing with her sleep at this stage is not something we want to do. It’s been all Western Hemisphere for us. She’ll be going to her 4th foreign country next month.

@bluestriped bee: I'm a big fan of traveling internationally with DS (and commented earlier in the thread about our travel when he was closer to your LOs' travel age), so I say go for it! I have no experience with twins, or traveling with two for that matter, but generally we found 7 months-ish to be a great age to travel. We think the time difference to Europe is actually a plus - if you're not set on adjusting them to the time zone, all it means is they'll go to bed late (around when you go to bed), and maybe even wake up later in the morning!