![]() Hopefully I won't even need it, I just thought it might be a good option to give my daughter a bit of space to play and put her toys etc. I'll ask a flight attendant once onboard and make my own decision then depending on turbulance and other factors. We probably won't be allowed to use it because Virgin keep telling me I can take it onboard and "use it if it is deflated" which completely makes no sense. We have a CARES harness and we will be taking the fly-tot. If you haven't then please don't bother replying. It was to see if anyone had used a Fly-tot before. "Out of 46 deaths of children under two from asphyxia associated with sitting and carrying devices, 31 involved car seats."Īnyway this was NOT a thread about how I wanted you to all tell me how I should be restraining my child. Here is the exact findings of the medical centres reports: With a car seat you have no option, there is no where else for the child to go or move around the seat is there! A CARES harness does the same job and is a lot easier to take than a car seat and is more comfortable and allows her to play in her seat at cruising with no seat belt sign on. It's not about lugging them around it is about being comfortable for her. No child should be in a car seat for 14 hours. No, children under 2 have a risk of dying in a car seat. He said the masks had likely malfunctioned, but who knew? We were diverted to the closest airport where, he later explained after landing, two planes had aborted landing so they could bring us right in. (BTW, the pilot descended rapidly (thank goodness we were all restrained) getting us to an altitude at which we would be fine if the cabin had depressurized. This taught me two lessons-how things can go very quickly from routine to not routine, and how little time there actually is to react. Luckily my spouse was there and pulled the mask hard for me to bring it the rest of the way down, and he also adjusted our child's mask. I remembered the pre- flight instructions that we were to put the mask on ourselves before helping someone else (in this case our child in his own seat) But I could not pull my mask the rest of the way down to start the oxygen. We were on a Delta flight which was cruising along at 30,000+ feet when the oxygen masks suddenly descended. There may be ways that accomplish both the ability to lie with the feet up and to be restrained, though, and you should keep investigating.Īs for reacting quickly in an emergency such as sudden turbulence, it is very hard to do everything rapidly, depending on the possible emergency. I know there is no easy or perfect solution to any of this, and have traveled with a toddler, but I would be afraid if my baby were unrestrained or improperly restrained. By the same token, they do not require child seat or the Cares harness, though. Read their webpage about restraints and putting your child in a window seat. And, per Delta, the regular belt is not a proper restraint for a child under two. And they will have a high likelihood of injury because they are so small. If there is severe turbulence and your child is not in an appropriate restraint, they will become a projectile. Using the Fly-tot with no proper child restraint is potentially more dangerous than having your child in a car seat and being right next to your child in your full view. ![]() ![]() You won't be doing that, for sure! You will be right next to your toddler. ![]() Also, some of the terribly unfortunate deaths of children occurred when they were left unattended in the car seat to sleep, or with a bottle propped up, or it was used as a substitute at home for putting the child down in a crib, face up, with no interfering blankets, pillows, etc. The safety recommendation is not to leave a child in a car seat for any continuous period longer than two hours, but that does not mean we don't use the seat in a car because of the danger of suffocation. I don't think that any recommendation or requirement to have your child in a car seat in flight means never to move the child, for example to change the baby or to feed.
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