Traveling With Kale

Travelling with a baby sucks. Travelling with someone with special need is tricky. My experience with travelling with Kale so far has been going for only a 1hr plane ride to BC Children's Hospital. Travelling alone with Kale however even if it is for just a 1 hr flight, travelling through the airport is the tough part.

Ive gone to BC Children's with Kale when he was tiny using an infant car seat. That was OK. You still have to fold your cart up one handed wile trying to hold on to your floppy child and dismantling the infant car seat that is attached to the stroller and holding a bag. That trip was a learning lesson. Lessons learned were, the car seat is essential to getting in a cab, stroller is very much need to cruise around BC Children's hospital, and you know those old people who carry around Fanny packs that we make fun of...Fanny packs would be a good idea to carry a itinerary/IDs without losing them cause when your one handed...ugh I don't even need to explain...Fanny packs would be awesome.

So by my second or third trip I tried to not bring my stroller just the infant car seat. That was a horrible idea! Carrying him around while holding a car seat and bag going into hospital appointments or waiting rooms was tough. I was just trying to avoid loading and unloading the stroller from the cab. I once tried those snuggles that attach the baby to the front of you...You guessed it! Horrible idea as well.

In conclusion this is my method so far:

• Bring with you a stroller, car seat (any size), your bags or large purse.
• Put your child in the stroller until you get to security, then put your bags and car seat onto the security conveyor belt, then pick your child up after you grabbed your IDs and tickets, one handed fold your stroller down and walk through security. Make sure you had your bottles on the top of your bag and place them out into the tray with any other liquid or food before you pick your child up.
• Security will now swipe your stroller down with your bottles and any other opened food product for the child while you gather your other belongings.
• Set your stroller back up, place your car seat upside down or anyway you can balance it on the canopy of your stroller. Bags in the stroller and keep carrying the baby.
• When you get to your gate for pre-boarding, grab your bags, You still have your tickets and IDs in hand, while pushing your stroller one handed, walk to the plane and fold down your stroller after you removed the car seat from the top of it, and Enjoy the flight.
• Take a sedan or limousine to your destination from here, it a flat rate, not like a cab. Plus they help load unload, open your door. VERY HELPFUL!
• You can always check everything in, but they might break it, plus this way you don't wait for bag and your to and from destination in no time!!
• You now have your car seat for the Cab ride, stroller for wheeling around the hospital and to carry your bags.

Once you get the hang of it it is a breeze. People still stare at me like.." Are you sure you don't want to check that in?" I say " Yup I don't want it to be broken on the other side, i need it"! Ive sent it through before, did I mention that? They are not nice to it. Plus Kale is heavy, cannot sit and floppy, and when you need to pee or have a layover having a stroller is so handy when you cant put your kid down in an airport.

So that is my rant about travelling so far. Oh they do have a Sky train from the Airport. It is allot cheaper and takes you pretty close to the hospital, Ive done that before too. I will not do that again unless I have someone with me or help...and depending on my flight times!!

By the way, Kale is amazing inflight. He NEVER cries, and weve done this about 10 plus times!!