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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh, and my family medicine doc mom friend also recommends benadryl when needed for sleep.[/quote]

I can't find dosage info. Maybe I will call pediatrician to see if they can tell me. [/quote]

Careful with the Benadryl. It makes about 10% of kids hyper. Try it out before the plane. [/quote]

Was just about to say this.

OP, I had a baby who at 9 months I took on 2 flights to get to our somewhat hard-to-reach family in Mexico, and by the end of the first leg I was just about ready to consider giving up and driving all the way back to DC from Houston. Like yours, she could only get to sleep by rolling around; being held by us was NOT soothing. The usual DCUM advice of “you can do it,” and “just book flights for sleep times” didn’t apply. She was so miserable and overly tired, she wouldn’t eat and just screamed. (And to someone’s earlier suggestion, we actually did have a seat booked for her car seat.)

My uncle is an ENT doctor and checked her out, gave her the all clear and suggested we give her liquid Benadryl on the way back. She turned into what I can only describe as an angry drunk, and punched and screamed her way through the first flight until she passed out in her stroller during the layover at Customs and I practically threatened to cut someone if they made me take her out of the stroller for the damn Customs kiosk photo.

We didn’t fly with her again until she was nearly 2, and it went much better then. In your situation, I would be considering cancelling or calculating the cost of a nanny or having a relative or super close friend fly here.[/quote]

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