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Twintravel says
I’m wondering if anyone has any thoughts or direct experience with this particular travel situation…I’ll be flying from NY to LA with my husband, 1 yr old twins, and 4 yr old. The plane configuration is rows of 3 seats. In a perfect world, I’d avoid having either me or my husband in a middle seat for a long flight as we’re both tall. The twins will have their own seats, in car seats. Airline website says window seats are preferred for car seats. Do I plan to configure us with one row of two car seats (window, middle) with adult on the aisle, and then another row with 4 yr old in middle seat and adult in aisle? Or do I have each baby in a window seat, with one adult then having to sit in the middle? Wondering if we will get a little leeway since traveling with two babies.
Anonymous says
Don’t expect any leeway, planes are just too full for that. I’d do the following:
Window. Middle. Aisle.
Car Sear. Parent. Stranger.
Car Seat. Parent. Four Year old.
Anon says
Window seats aren’t just preferred, they’re required. It’s against FAA regulations to have a car seat blocking another seat, and most flight attendants we’ve encountered have enforced it. I think you will need to have an adult in the middle seat. 4 year old could take the middle seat in the other row.
Anonanonanon says
Agreed. I wasn’t aware of the requirement until I was made to uninstall and reinstall a car seat while flying by myself. Sigh. They will likely enforce it.
Anonymous says
Yep, we’ve also had this enforced when we tried it.
Jeffiner says
I only have one kid, and have always put the carseat in the window seat, but on one flight last year I did see twin parents put the carseats in window and middle. I can see the argument that window-twin isn’t going to walk off the plane regardless, so his seat isn’t “blocked,” but it would be hard to reach across to unbuckle window twin in an emergency.
My flight was a packed Christmas flight. Across the airplane, the row was carseat-twin 1, carseat-twin 2, twin dad, aisle, twin mom, me, my carseat kid. My husband had to sit somewhere else. I told him I thought the twin parents needed to be together more than I needed him for our one kid.
Pogo says
correct, they definitely enforce this. I would still go w/ carseats for the twins.
Anonymous says
We’ve flown a ton with twins in carseats, though not with an older child. We always use on of two arrangements: carseats next to each other with an adult on the aisle and the second adult across the aisle (in your case I’d put the 4yo in the middle seat) or carseat in window and adult in middle for two rows right behind each other (and 4yo would go on an aisle).
I have never, ever had any one object to two carseats in the same row, even when we’ve had 2 adults and could split up. Similarly, it’s easy enough to reach the window twin to hand them things. Splitting up like this means that the parent not with the twins gets a break from constant entertaining (we swap part-way through long flights) and you can share one bag of snacks and toys for both twins.
Anonymous says
This is half-right. Carseats cannot block an able-bodied passenger’s egress, but you can have carseats in both the window and middle of the same row, with an adult on the aisle. If one is FF that has to be the one in the middle, but if both are RF you can have a RF seat in the middle. I have done this on over 20 flights with multiple airlines.
Anonymous says
Our kids are the same age difference. We didn’t use car seats but we always did me with one twin and older kid on one side, then DH with other twin on other side. I sat in the middle with twin on the window seat and older kid on the aisle. In our case, we had DH on the other side of the aisle from older kid in case I was busy with twin and she needed help. In your case, it would need to be one adult in middle seat and other twin on window.
There’s no magic right answer to this one. I’d be least in favor of twins in car seats in window and middle because on take off and landing you won’t be able to reach the window seat twin to soothe them which can be important if they are crying because their ears are bugging them or something.
Twintravel says
Thank you both – this is really helpful.
Anonymous says
I commented above, but I’ve never had an issue reaching the twin in the window seat while sitting on the aisle, even when the seatbelt sign is on.
Knope says
I’d consider using a CARES harness for the twins and checking the car seats – gives you more flexibility on seating arrangements and you don’t have to schlep the seats to the gate.
Anonymous says
For one year olds?
Knope says
Yes, if they weigh at least 22 lbs. That’s the min weight.
Katy says
I would recommend against the Cares harness that if you actually want them contained. Frankly I DO NOT recommend the cares harness. We got one so we wouldn’t have to fly 9 hours with a car seat beside me. At 20 months old he was reasonably tall for his age (average weight I guess) and it was impossible to make the harness tight enough / appropriately positioned to actually make much of a safety difference. I would have felt better about bringing him on to my lap. If the point is to keep them contained – very limited value. I don’t see them working effectively for 1 year olds (safety or containment). On the way home we didn’t bother for most of the flight and no one enforced (although arguably they probably couldn’t tell he was under 2). This flight was EU to NA.
It was however much nicer for the connections that dealing with the car seat (on top of snacks for 16 + hours of travel / clothes for a known puker on planes trains / automobiles, toys etc.)
Spirograph says
+1 on limited containment value. We used the Cares harness on one flight, and the kid just slipped out under the lap belt and was wiggly and annoying for the whole fight. I would have much rather had a car seat.
Anon says
I’ve also heard it’s much easier for kids to sleep in carseats vs the harness (mine don’t sleep on planes period, so I don’t have firsthand knowledge).
Jeffiner says
I would do two rows on the same side, one in front of the other. It will be easier for the kids to look at/play with each other, and you could have the 4 year old in the middle and you and your husband take turns on the aisle seat.
Katy says
This seems like a good option!
Anon says
We’re in a different situation (just 2 kids, both older than 2) but yes, we always do 2 seats in 2 rows on the same side right behind/in front of each other. Mostly because of all the toys/coloring/snacks that we can then pass back and forth without bothering people in between, AND then each parent is equally in charge of a kid.
Anonymous says
I’ve done this and it was worse. DH couldn’t really hear me well because he wasn’t right behind me, and it seemed to involve a stranger a lot more because older kid kept leaning up to try and talk to her dad which pushed on stranger’s seat vs. being able to talk to him across the aisle.
Anonymous says
I would do:
Window. Middle. Aisle.
Car Sear. Parent. Stranger.
Car Seat. Four Year old. Parent
It will be less stressful to not have to fight the 4 year old kicking the stranger. In fact, they may listen better when the parent in front turns around and tells them to stop kicking. You can each have time in the aisle. You are not invading a stranger’s space but your small 4 year’s old’s space to attend to the 1 year old at the window.
anon says
I know there are some BOBW podcast listeners on here. Did anyone listen to the recent episode with Matt and Joel talking personal finance? They both have SAH spouses and there were several points that made me grimace – especially coming from theoretical personal finance advisers.
Note I have nothing against SAHMs and in another world I would be one. But the analysis that “childcare costs are expensive so at the point of having two kids it makes sense for a lot of spouses to stay home” was way too simplistic and short-sighted and made me discount everything else these guys were saying! Glad Sarah called them out on it just a little bit, and wish that had been a real conversation.
Remind me that for long term earnings and independence it’s good to maintain a salary? But also I can stay at home if I want to? I do agree with what they emphasized that it’s all about having choices. But I want to hear a personal finance podcast talk about the long term earnings loss of women dropping out of the workforce – any good episodes?
FVNC says
I listen to BOBW and that line jumped out at me, too! I was just waiting for Laura to attack it, and was really surprised when she didn’t and that Sarah’s push-back was so weak. What they said was contrary to just about every analysis I’ve seen. There were a couple other lines that made me cringe but I can’t remember them off the top of my head (something like one of them saying his mom always wanted to stay home so he wanted his wife to be able to stay home…it made me think his wife had less of a “choice” than she really did). Anyway, if you want to stay home, great,do it!…but not because it’s financially prudent in most cases.
OP says
Exactly! You’ve said it better than me. Just wanted to discuss with someone and you guys are the best community!
Anon says
It’s a sadly prevalent view. It was even cited in the Baby 411 book as a reason for moms (yes, moms, not “the lower-earning partner”) not to go back to work post-baby. I was so annoyed I emailed the author of the book – who is ironically a working mom! – about it.
OP says
I love Baby 411 – and love that you emailed about that!
Jessamyn says
Yeah, I think in that sense these guys were not a great fit for BOBW. They claimed that they wanted their wives to be able to have the “choice” to stay home, which is why I think Laura and Sarah didn’t pin them down on it more. But it was pretty clear from the tone that they fall into the “Kids need a mommy at home” school of thought. Which some people do. But, I would think, not most BOBW listeners.
The SAHM thing also pretty much, to me, lessened the relevance of any of the comments they had about “big families” and how they use their time and “balance.” Like, yeah, they have a spouse at home. Three kids doesn’t actually seem like that many in that case…
Honestly, part of me wonders if in order for Laura to get on their pod, they had to agree to let these guys on BOBW. I also remember when it was a big deal to have the “first male guest” when Sarah’s husband came on the pod, and that wasn’t really addressed in this episode.
Also, just the casual mention by one of them that they “started investing in rental properties” as a passive income stream. Well, ok?? Explain please? Where did the down payments for those come from? Did they severely restrict their household budget? Or (as I suspect), was there some family “help” in there getting them started? And then they talked in a vague sense about how their wife “manages” the rental properties, but didn’t get into detail about how much time she spends doing so, what that entails, whether that saves them money on a property manager and the financial benefit of that (i.e. is it more or less a part-time job for her?) — just a big missed opportunity and the lack of detail again limiting the applicability to BOBW listeners.
Overall, I liked the guys and their banter, but the more you’ve got me thinking about it, the more I’m not a big fan of their inclusion on BOBW.
Boston Legal Eagle says
I had these same thoughts on the episode. I generally like BOBW (even with Laura’s off-handed brushoffs of the difficulty of raising families if you don’t have lots of money) but this seemed like a strange episode. These guys seem nice enough and I’ve listened to their podcast a bit as well, but how are they showing how to have “the best of both worlds”? It seemed like they were trying to present themselves as involved dads, but the undertone was that the SAHM wives still managed the households and anything kid-related, so these dads didn’t really have to worry about the mental load.
Considering just the costs of childcare when evaluating whether someone should stay home is very short-sighted. And for people who are trying to help others hedge their bets and avoid risky moves with their finances, they’re missing the fact that relying on one income is very risky nowadays.
But I guess Laura and Sarah couldn’t just attack them the entire episode. Again, it just seemed like an odd choice of guests for this particular podcast.
FVNC says
So true! The contrast between guest interview and the listener question (how do you handle two “big job” households) was really jarring. THAT’S what I’d be interested in hearing more about.
SC says
I didn’t listen to the podcast, but my husband (who was the lower-earning partner) stays home. We have a rental property, a triplex, and he manages two other triplexes for a relative. So I have some thoughts about that.
We bought the rental property as our first house. We lived in one of the units for 6 years while we saved to buy a larger house. The passive income stream was amazing at the time–the rent from the other 2 units basically paid for us to live for free, and we used the money we would have spent on rent to make improvements to the triplex and to make a down payment on our current house.
Managing a property, in the short-term, does not take much time overall but is inconvenient and is not that lucrative. My husband probably averages 2-3 hours per week per property. We pull out $750/mo from our property, and he receives about $600 per month for managing the other two properties. However, averaging time is really difficult. Months can go by when there is literally nothing to do, and you have this great passive revenue stream. But when sh*t hits the fan, it takes over your life. We’ve had emergencies that have caused us to miss important functions, we’ve had repairs that have taken tons of time, we’ve had bad tenants threatening other tenants and us so we had to get the police involved, etc. Repairmen never show up on time, so your 15-minute window to let them in actually means you can’t go anywhere else all morning. Getting an apartment leased almost always means meeting multiple people after regular work hours or on the weekend. Even for non-emergencies, tenants always call when they’re home–after work and on the weekends.
Best case scenario, the property you buy appreciates in value massively and you can flip it within 10 years without doing much of anything. Next-best scenario is that you generate enough income to pay the expenses and the mortgage for 15-25 years, then have a better source of income after it’s paid off. Worst case scenario, but not that uncommon, you lose money.
anon says
I thought the same thing and was surprised Laura didn’t push back since she pushes back on the most mundane comments from Sarah or guests if they mention something that isn’t the way she does it. I
Cb says
Yes, I was waiting for her to pushback and was surprised when she didn’t. None of my friends listen so I’m grateful for a discussion forum for this.
OP says
Yes, thanks everyone for weighing in! Glad I’m not the only one it sat weirdly with!!!
Anon says
I thought it was odd as well.
It also reminded my why I stopped listening to How to Money a half episode in (and switched to HerMoney). I just can’t deal with bro podcasts.
Anonymous says
I’ve never listened to BOBW, but I really like the Her Money with Jean Chatzky podcast, and she had an episode recently that touched on breaks from the workforce, the long term costs, and how to get back in. The basic message was: you have to balance the psychological cost/benefit of taking a break or leaning out for caretaking along with the financial ones. but seriously, you need to understand you’re probably cutting your lifetime earnings by a LOT.
Anonymous says
I’m so glad you started this thread! I had all the same thoughts and I’m happy to hear I’m not the only one. That comment definitely made me discount everything else they said about personal finance, supppsedly their area of expertise. But it also made me really disappointed in Laura and Sarah for not challenging them more. I understand not angrily attacking guests on your podcast but there should be room for disagreement.
ALC says
Baby has started rolling over (and trying to crawl off!) on the changing table — any suggestions on how to stop this, or distract him so I can clean him properly? Thanks!
Cate says
It’s so hard. Mine loves to do that. I have like five toys (or tubes of diaper rash cream – let’s be real) on hand at all times and just keep handing her things to keep her hands occupied. Curious to hear suggestions from others!
anon says
We stored our changing pad under the dresser and, for safety reasons, started doing diaper changes on the pad on the floor.
Anonymous says
It’s so hard and it never stops. Just distraction. Diaper cream tubes and individual wipes are our most common distractions at 18 months. Singing also works well! We just started changing my older kid on the floor around 18 months though.
Anonymous says
One hand wrapped firmly around baby ankles at all times! Also agree with changing on the floor for the time being
TheElms says
I’ve found that singing songs and making funny faces work best, after that toys/ diaper rash cream to hold or sometimes we play peak a boo with a clean diaper.
Anon says
DH went with the poopoose after too many struggles to keep kiddo on the table (he’s not physically able to get on the floor to do floor changes). For him it’s essentially a third hand.
confused says
Help, We’re TTC for baby #2, I’m 36. Got pregnant on our first month trying using OPK at 33. Been trying again with OPK for 5 months, but also have only had my period back for like 9 months since weaning, so maybe my cycle is still regulating?
I’m due for a well-woman and also would need a new OB for this pregnancy, so I have an appt scheduled with a new OB. When not pregnant I see my GP for well-woman exams, and I love her. Can OB’s help with TTC more than my GP would? beyond general advice? I need yearly routine lab work and a physical for my work’s health insurance “wellness” bonus, so I’d rather not have to also go to my GP for that, if I can instead do both that and well-woman with her. I’ve only ever seen an OBGYN when pregnant, not for routine care, but I know lots of women only have an OBGYN though and not a GP, how does that work? THANKS FOR YOUR HELP LADIES!
Anon says
Yeah, just go to an OBGYN. They can do a well-woman exam and give you better advice about trying to conceive than a GP can, and possibly even do some basic testing like bloodwork before referring you to an RE – and I think you would get referred quickly, since the general rule of thumb is 6 months of trying after age 35 before a referral.
I don’t have a GP, which I know is controversial, but even if i had one, I would go to the OBGYN for well-woman exams. That’s their specialty (It’s the GYN half of OBGYN).
Anonymous says
Just book in with an RE
Anonymous says
I have PCOS so I talked with my GP about TTC when she took my implant out. Since not ovulating makes the “try for 6 months” advice pretty useless, she told me to go to OB when we were ready to conceive. She knew the basics like they would probably try to medically induce periods and prescribe clomid, but she didn’t prescribe them. I’m sure it differs by practice.
Since then, I’ve seen my OB for annual visits and she orders routine lab work for me.
Anon says
If you are using OPKs, you should be able to tell if your cycles are regular. Do you get positive OPKs to indicate you are ovulating? Does your period arrive 10+ days after the positive OPK? (if not, you could have a luteal phase defect that makes implantation unlikely.) I personally find OBs useless in terms of TTC…all the advice and hormone testing timeframes are based on an assumed 28-day regular cycle. But, if you are due for a well woman check anyway, may as well make an appt.
confused says
thanks! yes and yes. pretty regular. trying the EOD method starting this month. so maybe that will get results. just getting anxious bc I’m an old .
Anonymous says
Since you are over 35 and have been trying for 5 months, book an appointment with an RE for next month. Best case you can cancel if not needed, but after 6 months you should see one.
Anon says
TW: Cancer and child loss
Oof just got the news that an acquaintance’s preschooler’s cancer has returned and it’s terminal. Is there anything I could be doing besides commenting supportively on social media posts and making a donation in the child’s memory when the time comes? I live on the other side of the country and really don’t know her well at all (we were high school classmates 20 years ago but never close friends) and she seems to have a very large circle of much closer friends lifting her family up at this terrible time.
Life is so unfair. This little girl has been through so much in her short life, but it really seemed like she would pull through and live until adulthood, if not a normal life expectancy, and now all of a sudden they’re talking in terms of weeks to months. I’ve teared about this half a dozen times already today.
Spirograph says
How heartbreaking.
If you know her address or can get it through a mutual friend, I would send a “Thinking of You” card vs commenting on social media. You could also ask a mutual, local friend if there’s anything you can do, someone local may be coordinating donations, things to brighten the child’s day, etc.
anon says
A distant relative unfortunately went through this. One thing that they seemed to appreciate was a chance to do special family activities during that difficult period. For example, her company gave them use of their box seats for the local sports team. Obviously, that is not something everyone is in a position to facilitate, especially from across the country, but on the off chance you have some kind of connection you would be willing to leverage, it might be appreciated. Of course, run that through someone closer to them.