¿Qué ha sido esencial para viajar con nuestro bebé?

1. Un portabebé: Ergo Baby ha sido un éxito!  Facilita el paso por seguridad y migración de aeropuertos. El bebé a todo momento esta seguro. Podemos caminar por donde queremos sin molestias. Realmente tener un carruaje hubiera estado de más ya que en mayoria de casos las aceras son inexistentes.

2. Para el avión: Una mudada para el bebé, pañales, wipes, unos jugetes, vaso para la leche, algunos snacks, recipiente plástico con tapadera y los cubiertos del bebé. Es práctico usar bolsas plásticas con cierre (zip) para guardar las cosas. Facilita el paso por la seguridad de los aeropuertos, es fácil meter y sacar lo que necesitas. Tener una bolsa plástica extra para ropa sucio u otra cosa.  Emily toma leche de vaca desde los 13 meses. Pensé que no sería problema encontrar tretra pak o bote en liquido en aeropuertos, especialmente en Barajas. Incorrecto, en algunos aeropuertos no encuentras leche (a menos que vayas a las cafeterias, te venden el vaso).  Lo que me dio mas coraje es que tenia leche en polvo, pero lo puse en la maleta que chequeamos...   Desde entonces aprendi la leccion. Por cierto, no en todos los vuelos dan comidas, asi que si es hora de comidas hay que estar listos.


3. En la maleta:  Nuestro viaje a iniciado en el sureste de asia. Realmente hay de todo en estos países así que no hay que sobrecargarse con cosas. De todas formas, algunas de las cosas que empacamos aparte de productos de uso diario fueron: protector solar, repelente de mosquito, sombrilla, botiquin.

En relación a pañales, en un inicio nos asustamos un poco ya que solo conseguiamos en paquetes de 3, si 3 pañales solamente. En la mayoría de países tienen tiendas exclusivas para bebés donde encuentras de todo, incluyendo pañales.  Opuesto de los países donde hemos vivido, farmacias o supermecados no siempre tienen pañales o tienen paquetes pequeños.

4. Botiquín: Para preparar el botiquín ayudo obtener sugerencias de otras mamás. Lo que ha sido super útil es pumada de hidrocloruro de clorfenoxamina para la comezón que da la picadura de insectos.  Otros medicamentos incluyen paracetamol, agua oxigenada, sales de hidratación oral, curitas, balsamico de eucalipto y termómetro.

Guatemala to Thailand. (aka Mission Impossible Baby edition)

So I have done a fair bit of traveling considering I am only 14 months old. For the most part I've adjusted quite well to all this travel. On my last flight, I traveled from Europe to Central America with a cold and pink eye! It wasn't exactly fun but in the end it was worthwhile trip to go see my aunts and uncle over in Guatemala.  I even got compliments on the plane and when we landed for handling the trip so well. Even the rude Iberia air hostesses smiled at me (although they refused to give me milk, but that's another story). To begin 2013 my parents had a new challenge for me - we were going to travel from Central America (Guatemala City) to Asia (Bangkok) with a 28 hour layover in Europe (London via Madrid). Total travel time of about 50 hours (yes, I am not kidding!). To top it off during our layover my parents needed me to stay quite while they packed up our apartment in Europe. So I don't know what your idea of a fun time is but I think I have concluded mine doesn't include 50+ hour trips!!!

It was on the second leg of the journey (London-> Bangkok), somewhere over Ukraine where I lost the plot. I mean I had no idea if it was night or day - whether I should sleep, eat or play! My papa was supposedly trying to calm me down and put me to sleep but he kept jabbing me in the stomach putting on and off my seat belt (PS: If you ever ride with papa watch out for the baby seat belt -- I don't think he has mastered it yet). That was it for me, so I yelled and yelled until I got all my frustration. It wasn't too long maybe 5-7 mins but It felt good to let of some steam. I am sorry if you were a passenger on BA009 that had to hear me. I suspect you might do the same or worse if you were 13 months and starring in mission impossible baby edition.

So finally we arrived in Thailand. The weather was really nice and warm. Finally, we had all our bags and I was ready to get "home" (wherever home is!). That's when I figured out we still had an additional 3 hours to get to drive to our Condo in Hua-Hin. ARRRGHHH. Are we there yet???

 PS: I even had to push the trolley!

Got Milk? Apparently none on Iberia and in Madrid Barajas

There is nothing like a warm cup of milk to relax and put me in a good mood. My parents usually do a fairly good job of having a good supply of milk on hand (Mama usually has 1-2 small cartons milk in her bag whenever we go out). When we go on trips they usually buy me a few cartons after we pass security. Mama usually carry powder milk for plain rides specially. We don't usually take milk to the airport because the security guys get all suspicious as though I was planning to to smuggle a biological weapon onto the plane. For our my most recent flight my parents were surprised that they could not find any stores that sold milk after security at Madrid Barajas. Plenty of duty free with booze, perfurme, tobacco and makeup but no milk for sale. Finally, one of the cafes in the airport obliged and filled my sippy cup up with milk from their capuccino machine. After they filled it up they charged my papa 10 Euros. My papa didn't say anything but I could see from the look in his eyes saying "daylight robbery"!

However, the thing is we had a pretty long flight (13 hours). One fully sippy cup of milk would have been just fine if we had a short flight but on a long flight I like to kick back a few. My papa assured us "its a long flight.. Iberia must carry milk onboard". Famous last words.  I finished my full cup of milk after take-off and began to snooze. During the meal service while I was alseep my papa asked the stweardess for milk. The stewardess returned with some tiny packets of creamer. "No" my papa clarified "we need milk for the baby".  "Sorry sir we have a limited supply of milk on the plane" was her answer with a look as though she was doing us a favor responding to his request.

So I woke up again - played for a bit - walked around the plane and started to get thirsty for another cup of milk. I looked through mamas bag and gave her that questioning look trying to say "where's my milk?". None around on Iberia apparently.

In the end we were able to snag some milk from one of the business class flight attendants. Go sneaky papa!

Visitando a mi madrina!

En agosto del 2012 fui con mamá a visitar a mi madrina. Al principio, como era usual, estaba un poco tímida, pero fui agarrando confianza poco a poco. En este viaje tuve la oportunidad de conocer y jugar con Martina y Santiago (mas bien ellos jugaban conmigo ya que yo soy muy pequeña ;))

Santi y Martina jugando conmigo durante mi baño.

Aparte de jugar, me encantó ir a la playa y comer la comida que me hizo la madrina!

                         Con la madrina en la playa!                             Disfrutando mi almuerzo!