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I will have a four year old two three year olds and a one year old. We are traveling to San Diego for the holidays. No too bad, about a three hour drive but we will be away from home or over a week which is enough to make me a little crazy.

We are driving back home (3 hours) for Christmas. We do the drive about once a month (sometimes more) though. We have a good driving routine now, so it is pretty painless, and we have done the last couple drives without a 1/2 way point stop (we used to have to stop at the midway point or else LO got a little cranky).

Nurse/give a bottle when taking off and landing. Be prepared for LO to sleep... or not (which is the case with us). I've only ever worn LO while traveling (our families have carseats/strollers that we can use when we're there). If we were traveling with both, I would gate check the stroller and carseat. If there's room on the plane, they will usually let you use the carseat during the flight. And the stroller will be handy through the airport.

We're flying from Australia to London with our 5 month old - a 33 hr journey, ugh! Two and a half weeks later, we're flying from London to Chicago, another 9 hr journey (not including airport time). And then 4 weeks later, we're flying from Chicago back to Australia, another 29 hr journey.

We're on the fence about bringing an umbrella stroller or if we should just use the Bjorn. Our families in the UK and US have car seats, cots, and prams, so it would really just be to use the umbrella stroller in the airport. Not sure yet what we're going to do.

And that reminds me I need to call British Airways AGAIN about getting a bassinet seat (we originally had one, then we didn't, then we maybe did, now we don't again - argh...) So that would be my advice, call early and often to make sure you can get a bassinet seat or a bulkhead with some floor space!