Things I Couldn't Live Without {while traveling}

I still can't believe how easy it was to travel with Elliot. It seems like other moms are always telling me horror stories about traveling with babies. My own mom is even guilty of this- I flew for the first time when I was six weeks old, and apparently I screamed the whole flight. Luckily, Elliot did not take after his mama this time- it was a piece of cake! He did SO much better than I thought he would. He was happily sleeping or checking out the airplane {and babbling to our neighbor} the whole time.

Products I couldn't live without while traveling with an infant:


Green Sprouts formula dispenser- unlike a lot of the others, this has sections for four bottles instead of three. The lid fits tightly so I didn't have to worry about it spilling in my diaper bag- so tightly, in fact, that I had trouble removing it later to refill it! An added bonus- Green Sprouts is an eco-friendly company, and we all know how I love that ;)


GroVia Biosoakers- I didn't want to use disposables during the trip because I didn't want Elliot exposed to all the chemicals, but I didn't want to lug around four days worth of dirty diapers, either... So I decided to use disposable inserts inside the covers that we already had. I chose these because they were chemical free, biodegradable, and flushable. They worked great for us! They did leak more than our cloth... but to be fair, I wasn't changing him as often as I usually do.


Infant Advil {white grape flavor}- I gave this to Elliot an hour before the plane ride and he did great. I love that it was dye-free because, let's face it, some ALWAYS dribbles out, and Elliot liked the white grape flavor a LOT better than the cherry Little Tummies tylenol I'd given him in the past.


Lamaze Freddy the Firefly- Once Elliot grew bored with his new surroundings, it was easy to distract him with this toy- and it clipped right onto my diaper bag, which saved room inside for other neccessities!


BooginHead Pacifier Grip- Because Elliot seems to like spitting out his pacifier every 2 seconds, and airport floors are DIRTY. This saved me from constantly washing his pacifier. These are the only ones I could find that work with Gumdrop & Soothie pacifiers. I picked up a random pacifier clip at WalMart but it only worked with pacifiers that had a handle. These come in really cute colors, too!


Evenflo Aura Select travel system- Since we live in northern Michigan and are still buried in snow, this trip was the first time I was able to test out my travel system. I have to say, I was pleasantly surprised! For the price {$200}, this thing worked GREAT. Easy to set up and collapse through security, really smooth to push through the airport, and it has really nice, bouncy shocks which came in handly while pushing him along the road at the St. Patrick's Day race. I gate checked it so that I could use it to push him in the airport, have his carseat for in the car, AND so I could watch them put it on the plane- they've done studies on how roughly checked carseats are handled in airports, and most of them aren't even safe for use afterwards!


My iPad- Airplanes and cars tend to put my son to sleep. So this gave me something to do while he was snoozing- I read a book, showed the person sitting next to me pictures of Elliot when he was in the NICU, played a few games, and even read some children's books to Elliot once he woke up. There are also some pretty nifty ABC/counting kids apps out there that Elliot finds mesmerizing.


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