Well it’s official. BabyTravels is no longer a baby or considered an infant. We celebrated her 2^nd birthday on Saturday. While we were happy to celebrate her being in our lives we mourned the loss of our infant in arms privileges with her and are slowing realizing the cost and annoyance of having to purchase three airline tickets.Which will make it difficult when looking for cheap international flights. I’m not sure what change one day makes in all of a sudden you can’t sit on my lap but you must have your own seat, but rules are rules. I do have a sneaking suspicion that even though we purchase her a ticket she will still end up on my lap during the flight. At least we will have more wiggle room.

She will use the same seat as an adult, yet she weighs much less than my carry-on which gets to ride with me for free. So where did this rule come from? How did the airlines determine this age? To be honest she probably could have used her own seat starting at the age of 18 months. I did a little research and apparently this is an FAA regulation that children over the age of 2 must have a seat. I also found out that you can only fly with two infants at a time per adult and that you can only have a maximum of one lap child per adult. So I’m guessing what this means is that a mom with twins can fly alone with her twins but one infant would need a seat along with an adult. However a mom with triplets would not be allowed to fly alone and would need both parents or another adult to fly with. They would only need to purchase three tickets however all four of them could not sit in the same row of three seats due to oxygen masks.

I had never thought of that before, yet I doubt I would be daring enough to try to fly alone with infant twins, nevermind infant triplets! I do think it won’t be long till I am brave enough to try to fly with my two year old and newborn baby solo. I know it will be a challenge but I bet I will be up to it!