Category: traveling with a baby

Hotel cribs and portable travel cribs – ensuring safe sleep when traveling

Post author By Melissa
Post date May 18, 2021
3 Comments on Hotel cribs and portable travel cribs – ensuring safe sleep when traveling

For families traveling with babies or toddlers, hotel cribs are often considered a necessity. Unfortunately, in the age of Airbnb and VRBO, complimentary cribs upon request are not always an option for family travelers, particularly…

Post author By Melissa
Post date April 23, 2021
4 Comments on How to take the perfect baby passport photo at home

Taking a passport photo for a baby is fairly simple, yet so many of us are afraid to attempt it ourselves. If you plan to travel internationally with your children they will need passports regardless…

Post author By Melissa
Post date April 7, 2021
1 Comment on Complete list of baby travel essentials: A guide to packing for a baby

Travel baby essentials and comfort item laid out

Prior to children, packing was a quick and easy process. We would throw a few clothes and the bare necessities in a carry-on and off we went. But packing for a baby is a bit…

Post author By Melissa
Post date May 29, 2019
3 Comments on Best baby carriers for travel and why you need one before your next trip

Parenthood and Passports - RIU Guanacaste

UPDATED JULY 2021 – If there is one thing in my life that has made traveling with a baby easier, it is babywearing. We have taken our daughter on numerous trips in her young life.…

Post author By Melissa
Post date May 5, 2017
12 Comments on Traveling internationally with a baby or toddler: Differences you’ll notice

Parenthood and Passports - international traveling with babies and toddlers

When you travel internationally, you learn to adapt to your environment. But when you are traveling internationally with a baby or toddler, who hasn’t yet learned how to adapt to change, you come to appreciate…

Post author By Melissa
Post date May 21, 2016
8 Comments on A Baby’s Memory and Why Travel Matters

Parenthood and passports - A Baby's Memory — Avery's fist flight

How much does a baby actually remember? Somewhere in a baby’s memory bank are there experiences from infancy that will somehow feel familiar one day, but they won’t know why? Or are our little one’s…

Post author By Melissa
Post date May 7, 2016
No Comments on Traveling Makes Children Smarter

Parenthood and Passports - Traveling makes kids smarter

Our daughter is only 15 months old, so it might be a bit premature to call her a “genius”, but I’m fairly certain she is going to be one smart cookie. No, she isn’t reciting…

Post author By Melissa
Post date April 17, 2016
6 Comments on Traveling – or doing anything – with a toddler

Parenthood and Passports - Traveling with a toddler

Toddlers. They’re an interesting breed of humans, aren’t they? These tiny, messier versions of other humans make everything in life an adventure. I had a play date with a friend of mine last week who…

Post author By Melissa
Post date January 30, 2016
1 Comment on To the Mom on the Plane with the Screaming Kid

Parenthood and Passports -Traveling with Kids when the world is scary

I don’t know you, but I’m sitting several rows back and can hear the high-pitched wail coming from your child just as clearly as if you were sitting right next to me. I don’t know…