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How To Do Everything

Babies and Emergencies

How To Do Everything

NPR

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2014

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

How to travel with your baby, and what to do when you've really, really got to go.

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0:00.0

All right you ready to go? Okay. Can you introduce yourself for us? Sure. My name is

0:04.3

Becky Sinclair. Okay so we are at the San Francisco Airport. We just got off a plane

0:09.2

we were on with you. Can you tell us who you're traveling with and what you did?

0:14.0

Sure, so I'm traveling with my daughter Evelyn who is six months old next week actually,

0:21.0

being a first-time mom and a little nervous about how she would do on the flight,

0:25.8

I wanted to try to appease the people around me. So I went to Costco and I bought a big old bag of candy, like different kinds of candy.

0:35.0

Bought some ziplag bags and distributed the candy amongst the bags.

0:39.4

And then I wrote a little note from Evelyn saying like, hi, my name is Evelyn, this is my first flight, I know what

0:46.1

you're thinking, I think it said I know what you're thinking, but I promise I'll try to behave.

0:51.1

My nervous mom made this bag of goodies.

0:54.3

Thanks for being my first flight buddies or something like that.

0:57.0

How many bags do you have?

0:58.1

I did about like 30.

1:00.4

Yeah, so.

1:02.0

So that covers what the rows in front and behind you. How far does it go?

1:07.0

Well, I just kind of started passing them out and the people around me, you know, as they were kind of making a ruckus thinking, oh, this is cool, you know, and so people

1:15.4

started turning and looking, and so it kind of spread that way.

1:20.2

You know, and the people around me were awesome.

1:22.3

They were really helpful with her and

1:24.1

seemed to be understanding she did really well so

1:27.0

uh... that was good

1:28.8

there was never a moment when you thought oh man i'm so glad i I handed out these snacks because this is a disaster

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