3 year old and a 7 year old…With EM…to Australia? You are a better woman than myself. No, I am sure you will be fine. 
Happy Mardi Gras!
My tip would be to be sure you have spare clothes with you in the cabin. My youngest of three from excitement I suppose at age 3 threw up on me before the plane even took off. London to Hong Kong. Never been so relieved to get into a hotel shower in my life. As for doing it with EM, just another bad day at the office.
On another flight we got the offer of an upgrade to First but for only one of us and my teenage son rode in luxury while the rest of us endured at the back of the plane. He watched films all night, a novelty in those days.
But back to reality, I was in bits before my only trips with EM. 9 hours (flight delayed on the ground 2 hours) 40 minute plane switch, then 13 hour flight, 5 hours in the terminal (the worst bit) waiting for a grasshopper plane, 90 minutes flight and then a blissful 3 hours in a car with AC blasting my feet. Not easy but not deserving of the tears and tantrums before I left and I will hopefully do it again one day.
Thanks for all the tips. I especially like one that would have me in business class, but the little one would shire the entire flight. I have flown with them to St. Louis and to Wyoming to visit family, but the little one is deep into the terrible twos right now(she’ll turn 3 before the trip) and she is challenging. My older daughter probably will be fine with some headphones, snacks, crayons and a coloring book. Stress seems to be a trigger for me, so it should be a fun trip. The aspirin seems to be working (at least it has for the past week), so fingers crossed that EM won’t be too much of an issue.
Hi, I just did take a plane trip. I was pretty worried, so I double-bagged two gallon size zip lock bags, took them thru the TSA gate, then asked a coffee shop for ice. At every airport, they willing gave me some. Then, with very heavy wool socks on my feet (I put them on after boarding), I laid the bag of ice over the tops of my feet. Occassionally I put them under my feet. It worked great! If no heavy socks, wrap the bags in a small towel.
Folks on the plane were very understanding - no questions asked.
Jane
For me flying is very uncomfortable. i swell and i am in pain the whole time. But for me any air pressure change causes me pain.
Nikki, were there other situations in which you'd noticed air pressure causing pain? Or did you just know that from having flown before?
MsLovelyNikki said:
For me flying is very uncomfortable. i swell and i am in pain the whole time. But for me any air pressure change causes me pain.
Elevation does this too which means the air pressure changes, We travel and going up and down mountains even small ones does this too and when the air pressure changes with the weather also.