The Ultimate Minimalist Flying with Baby Packing List for 2023 (+ Printable)

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The Ultimate Minimalist Flying with Baby Packing List for 2023 (+ Printable)

When it comes to traveling with your baby, it can feel like a whole new world – I know this firsthand.

Last week, we took our son Felix on his first cross-country flight (also his first flight ever. Go big or go home, amiright?). I’m proud to say I aced it when it came to packing for him, and we breezed through the airport as well as one can with a baby in tow. Plus, we only packed two bags and had two carry-ons, including the diaper bag.

Here’s everything we packed and more importantly, what we left at home when flying with our baby:

What to Carry On

When picking a carry-on, our main concerns were comfort, maximizing space, and ease of use.

There is an overwhelming amount of diaper bag backpacks to choose from at many price points, so after much research we went with the affordable Jeep

How flying has changed since 9/11

(CNN) — When this century began, you could pull up to the airport 20 minutes before a domestic flight in the United States and stroll straight over to your gate. Perhaps your partner would come through security to wave you goodbye. You might not have a photo ID in your carry-on, but you could have blades and liquids.

Back in 2001, Sean O’Keefe, now a professor at Syracuse University and former chair of aerospace and defense company Airbus, was deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget in the George W. Bush administration.

“At the White House, I was a member of the National Council Security team,” he told CNN Travel. He and his colleagues had been briefed on the al Qaeda terrorist group and understood the threat it posed, “but at the same time our imaginations simply did not give us the capacity to think that something like