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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you buy a seat for an infant, they have to be in the seat for take off and landing. It can be a pain to drag a car seat thru an airport. And my babies always screamed the most on takeoff and landing, unless I was nursing them. Which isn’t allowed if you have a seat for them. I was offered an extra seat on southwest when the flight wasn’t full, and declined it for this reason.

I have also never heard of a baby getting hurt as a lap held infant. I’m sure it has happened, but it seems pretty rare. [/quote]

Of course it’s rare, but why take the chance? My kid got upset too and it was a pain to drag the car seat through the airport, but we did it.

Guess what a lap infant becomes during bad turbulence or a crash? A projectile: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.consumeraffairs.com/amp/news/study-lap-infants-at-increased-risk-of-death-on-airline-flights-080414.html[/quote]

I understand that lap held infant are at greater risk than those secured in car seats. But the absolute risk is still incredibly small. And the risk that my kid will scream her head off is 100% unless I’m able to hold and comfort her. It is much much riskier to drive in our car, and yet we choose to do that too. [/quote]

Fine, then accept that risk. If there’s bad turbulence you won’t be able to hold onto your kid, but that’s your choice. We all have to take risks in life (driving in a car, flying on planes), but some of us choose to find other ways to comfort our kids on planes and make sure they’re secured in case of bad turbelence or a crash. I hope you never have to try to hold onto your kid if god forbid the plane hits bad turbelence.

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My kids are teens now, but having flown in very bad turbulence, I have never seen it so bad that I could not hold onto things.

If the turbulence is bad enough for your child to become a projectile, then you probably have bigger fish to fry and no one is getting off that plane.[/quote]

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