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I'm on a plane right now with my 6.5 month old (yayy WiFi on planes!) And so far I would say this is not easy. I'm bummed because lots of people said this is a good age ... But our flight was an hour delayed with us already on the plane and she pretty much cried and fussed for that entire hour. She's so curious ans wanted to touch/grab everything and was not into my attempts to get her to sleep. Finally she passed out as we started to taxi .... She's been asleep for 1.5 now and we have about 4 left ... So my fingers are crossed I can say it wasn't that had after all

I feel like every age presents its own challenges. When they are very young you have to attend to them constantly if they aren't sleeping. When they older, they can maybe be entertained more easily with an ipad or in flight films, but they also get bored and antsy and want to run around. That said, I think I prefer traveling with DS now as a toddler rather than as an infant. Maybe I've also gotten used to the stress of it too, so I deal with it much better.

So far, we've only taken 1 long trip - an international flight at 7 months and back at 8 months. It's wasn't easy. She was fussy and didn't just want to sit in the chair. At that age she was crawling and curious and we were also battling allergies so it wasn't fun at all. But now that she's 12 months, I think we'd have an even harder time. I'd imagine it would be ultimately difficult now that we'd look back fondly at our first flying experience.

6-10 months! In my opinion, it got a lot harder after that! Squirmy baby = exhausted mommy!

LO is 1 and so far has been really good on planes, but I expect all of that to change once she can walk!!! I have a feeling once she can get away from me (haha) she won't be so content to sit in my lap.

we didn't travel when charlie and olive were babies, but definitely under 6 months would probably have been easiest. 9 months was harder because they're mobile and antsier, but overall olive was a great little traveler then.

i think maybe 12-18 months is the toughest when they're new walkers so they want to move move move, but they're still young that they're not into tv. once kids are into tv it's much easier to travel! luckily olive just got into watching tv at 20 months -- just in time for our international trip next month!

We traveled with her @ 5months and it was a breeze. She was still EBF so I didn't need to pack food, her poops didn't stink and she slept all the time and anywhere.

Younger was better. I traveled for about 8 hours (4 hr flight + 1 hr layover + 3 hr flight) when LO was 2 mo and 2.75 mo and she slept most of the way. I took a 3 hr nonstop flight with her at 5 mo and it was a little challenging (she wouldn't sleep) but otherwise fine. I just had to work to occupy her because she wanted to be on the floor scooting around, not being held.

I was traveling with her alone each time, it would have been easier had I had someone to hand her off to. It was also waaaay easier when they let me take her carseat onboard.

It was definitely much easier when they were infants. But I recently flew from west coast back east alone with an almost 4 and almost 2 year old alone on a red eye and they did fantastic. I didn't even have to use electronics.