travellermom

Why not call yourself?

You've provided the phone #'s , whats the problem?

I tried, the call does not complete, I wouldn't had asked a whole bunch of strangers to do it, if I hadn't tried first.

Hi, I have a reservation to BKK and Chiang Mai arriving on Dec 2nd. Our first plan (we have all reserved) was to arrive in BKK on the second, take a train at night and arrive in Chiang Mai on the 3rd.

I wouldn't mind to skip BKK and just have my flight redirected to Chiang Mai, but I need to know what is happening there.

The people here is useless (one lady didn't even know about the problem in Bangkok).

Could someone call my airline there and ask where the flights are being redirect to? I know there are being redirected to somewhere, but nobody knows where...

Thanks!!! -I am pregnant, have a husband and a 3 yo with me!!!! - we need to go to thailand for a important business meeting.

Bangkok, ThailandOffice Address:11th Floor, Tonson Tower, 900 Ploenchit road, Post Code 10330, Bangkok, ThailandBusiness Hours:Ticketing 8:30am-5:00pm / Reservation 8:30am-5:30pm (Mon-Fri) Closed Sat-Sun. Office:+66 2 253 0088Reservations and Ticketing:+66 2 253 0099Fax:+66 2 252 2100

The airlines is Etihad, departing from Abu Dhabi, UAE at 10 pm.

First, congratulations, you are a nice man trying to help your marriage! - Everything will be ok, you will see!

Woman's advice:

1 - Women want love, men want respect. You gotta find what is her love language. People feel loved differently, there are 5 languages of love: acts (help with the housework for example), words (saying I love you, saying compliments), gifts (receiving and giving gifts), exclusive time (just wanna be with you).

2 - To take care of a baby is very very tiring, so, try to help her out, hire a part time maid (not an attractive one, please) if needed.

3 - After pregnancy and delivery we feel fat, ugly and just a baby poping machine, make sure you say nice things about her, along the day. (do not say: I love your boobs, or, girl, you are hot. DO say: you look good when you tie your hair like that, or gosh, I love your eyes... ). Say it when you are not inviting her for sex, or she won't believe you.

4 - Sometimes she is so in love for your son, the same way you are, that the emotions get very confused.

5 - She might be suffering with post partum depression.

The pressure for sex will just make it worse. Try to do lots of cuddling, back massages etc - and do not ask for sex - she will do it you will see.

And would be great if she can eat lots of soy products and peanut butter - it is good for women

You are great father and a great husband, I am sure you guys will be happy again!

Take care! -

My son I was never allergic to milk or formula, but by 15 months I started giving him whole milk and he developed an allergy. The doctor said that the milk was too rich and too strong for his liver that time, and I should switch to a follow up formula (the ones that said 1+). So we did, and everything worked fine.

The difference is that the protein and fat in formula is processed for better digestion and whole milk is not. So, whatever changes you are planning to do, do it slowly. Start mixing 1/2 formula and 1/2 whole milk, for example.

Whole milk - is cheaper, easier and usually does not have sugar.

Formula - usually is sweetened (look for the ones with less sugar, be careful with other types of sugar like sucrose, glucose and other oses..), has lots of added vitamins and minerals.

Make sure you brush her teeth throughly before bed and in the morning, and after her night bottles wipe her teeth and gums with a wet cotton ball and make her drink a sip of water.

Hope it helps!! - This is my blog backpackerkid.synthasite.com , still working on it...

Ok, here is the information from a mother who travelled for 9 countries with an infant - sometimes in a bassinet, sometimes on my lap for hours, sometimes on his own seat.

If you do not want to purchase an adult seat to your child (by priority order):

1) Email Qatar Airways requesting a bassinet. As said by others do not expect the travel agent to do it for you. If there are more babies on the plane, yes, you might not be able to have the bassinet even with the request. Because of the front seats are usually reserved for premium passengers (and the bassinet is in the front), considere to offer more money to be able to have it (just considere, do not offer more money until needed). Make sure to be very sweet and humble when requesting the bassinet on your email to Qatar Airways, I used to say: if my baby cannot lie down flat, he will cry during the whole flight, disturbing the other passengers... - always worked. Middle Eastern airlines are extremely nice to children and expectant mothers (I live in the UAE) and they will do you whatever is possible to get it for you.

2) I am not sure but if you check QA home page, on the tab "Review" you will be able to see the aircraft map and the occupied seats. If you are on the bulkhead row, do not do anything. If you are seating on a "normal" 3 seats row, book a seat for you and a seat for your spouse (or whoever is travelling with you) leaving an empty seat in the middle. Usually, especially if the aircraft is not fully booked, nobody will want to seat between 2 strangers, leaving that seat empty for you to put your baby on it. For take off and taxi you will have to hold the baby. And if someone ends up sitting in the middle, he/she will want to trade seats with one of you, or better, he will want to find another seat as far as possible.

You can carry a FAA approved infant car seat on the plane, if you are lucky to have an empty seat, you can use it, if you are not you just put it on the overhead luggage.

If you are thinking in purchasing an adult seat to your child:

To be able to travel on his own seat the infant will have to use a FAA (and/or european approved) infant car seat. Make sure you have the approval on the tag. To make sure I wouldn't have trouble with it, I sent an email requesting pre-approval from the airline, I told them the type of car seat - brand, model, color, year, sent a picture (I found all the descriptions and the pictures at amazon.com) and they pre approved.

If everything goes wrong: carry a boppy pillow with you and a sling, put the baby in the sling (not for take off and landing), put the sling and the baby on the boppy pillow and relax.

On a flight from Japan to Hawaii I was by myself with lots of bags and my 7 months old baby. I didn't get the bassinet as requested (because that aircraft did not have one), but they gave me a moses, and put the baby bed on the floor in front of me. He was fuzzy, so I ended up using the sling + boppy pillow idea and we both slept through the whole flight.

Well, hope I was helpful. I am trying to put all my tips on my blog backpakerkid.synthasite.com