From having to change nappies in the cabin because the toilet is too small to having a child get snot all over their clothes, these passengers soldiered on as best they could.
A Quora thread reveals the most unpleasant flight experiences that passengers have had with their own kids – or the kids of someone else.
Pamela Zohar revealed that her baby became ill on a flight from Tel Aviv to Chicago – and it wasn’t pretty.
She said: “Who spiked a fever, turned red, broke out in an all over rash and then there was some projectile diarrhoea arriving somewhere in there.
“Everybody in the immediate area was leaning far far away."
She continued: “I was trying to deal with a very upset and screaming toddler covered in poop, red splotches and a growing rash all over her body, while the flight attendants wanted to know if she had had her measles vaccine or not (well, yes, but).
“First I ran out of clean baby clothes and then out of diapers. She’s crying. I’m crying.”
Jennifer Landon-Neabauer was on a transatlantic flight from Germany to the US with her one year old son – and had to change him mid-flight in the cabin.
She said: “There was a poopy diaper leak on this flight and I had to strip him and wipe him down with baby wipes on the floor in the back with an audience of flight attendants on [their] breaks.
“One gentleman was kind enough to ask if I needed a plastic bag for my son’s clothes. I already had one, but it was nice.”
Jen Patch also had to change a nappy in the cabin after discovering that there was no changing table in the plane’s toilet.
She said: “My choices were a) change my absurdly poopy baby on our seat in the cabin, or b) let him sit in a stinky, pooped diaper for two hours while he screamed the whole way.
“Gee. Sorry, fellow passengers. Stink city either way, but at least one way wouldn’t result in two hours of screaming. I changed his diaper as fast as possible, wrapped it up as tight as I could and double bagged it.
“The smell was gone pretty quickly, but I’m sure my nearest neighbours were even more unhappy than I was about the ridiculous situation.”
Former paediatrician Daniel Kraft revealed that he was flying with his two sons back from Florida when he noticed that a three-year-old child next to him was “farting regularly”.
David said: “I consider myself an expert on gas and poop and everything gastrointestinal.”
He advised the child’s dad to take the child to the toilets, but he chose to ignore his professional advice as the plane was due to land soon.
David continued: “Just after he said that, poop started to pour out of his shorts all over the seat.
“By this time, it was too late for him to do anything about it since the flight attendants had already issued the “Fasten your seatbelt” command.
“For the next twenty minutes, as we circled the airport, I had to listen to this child cry that he had pooped in his pants.
“Since his parents were on the other side of the plane, it became my responsibility for keeping him in his seat so that it didn’t increase the smelly mess.”
Passenger Les Jordan was flying on first class from Boston to Portland, but that didn’t make him immune to getting covered in snot after being asked to hold a stranger’s baby.
He wrote: “Baby Emma has left a significant amount of sweat, tears, snots, and drool on my pants legs, from the lower zipper area, down the top of my left thigh, to about the middle of my upper left leg, where she landed, squirmed, cried, wiped her nose, and then finally slept, all while dripping with temper tantrum sweat.
“And, of course, I’m dressed in nice tan, khaki pants, which now have a dark wet stain on the top thigh area.”
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