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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you subjecting your child to this?[/quote]

There is literally NOTHING on planet earth that would make me take an 18 month old on a 24 hour airplane trip. Literally nothing. [/quote]
This is amazing advice, thank you so much. I'm sure OP is flying back and forth to Disney land 3x for fun [/quote]

Look I have three kids. Please tell me what is important enough to subject an 18 month old to this for? I can think of one scenario only: her parent is dying and she literally has no one to leave the child with- not another parent, not a friend, not a nanny. OP is this the case? If so you get a pass. Otherwise? This is cruel and borderline insane. [/quote]

Military orders, foreign service family moving, child or parent needs medical care not available in the home country . . .

This is going to be harder on the parent than anyone else.  If OP has decided it’s worth it then respect her decision.[/quote]

Barring medical emergency, all of these reasons can be accomplished by splitting the flight into segments with good breaks in between to leave the airport. Keeping a mobile 18 mo on a plane for the better part of 24 hours is cruel.  And no, I don't think it's worse for mom than toddler.

OP, break up your flight with layovers that let you go to a park and a hotel. [/quote]

Honestly, as someone who flew every summer back home with kids since they were born, splitting flights and staying in some hotel or airbnb or walking exhausted in a park, is not my idea of making travel with a toddler easier.

It’s adding significant complication and delay to an already long itinerary. The last thing I would have wanted to do is stay overnight (requiring more food / snacks for toddler, more supplies, more of everything) on my own, in a country I don’t know, adding passport control / security on way out and back in to catch the next flight, plus the risk of getting a fever or something while in a foreign country.

It’s easier to do this sort of stop over with an infant under 6 months, who’s breastfed, or an older child than a child who’s 18 months.

As hard as 24 hour flight with connection is, I imagine especially if op is flying alone, it’s way simpler than adding a stop over at connection.[/quote]

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