The Link Between Daycare and Traveling

These days, whenever we plan to travel somewhere, I always dread the flight. We've traveled often enough that flying is no big deal but it's the fact that Scarlett has a knack for getting sick RIGHT before we fly somewhere. There's been many flights that have been ruined because Scarlett caught a cold from daycare right before we have to fly somewhere. I've often heard the advice that children need to chew/suck on something during take-off and landing of a flight because the pressure difference hurts their ears. My experience has been that it only bothers Scarlett when she's sick (with her sinuses all stuffed up). We flew to Hawaii about a year and a half ago and Scarlett was sick when we flew there. The entire 5 hour flight was miserable. She was cranky, wouldn't sit in our lap, wouldn't eat, and cried most of the time. The flight back from Hawaii was the complete opposite. She sat the entire flight and was entertained and happy. Similar story on flights to LA. So now that we're planning to fly out to DC this weekend to visit my cousins, I'm starting to worry about her catching a cold. Sure enough, yesterday I found out that one of her friends at daycare came down with a cold and one of her daycare providers has a cold. She's with me today and tomorrow but I'll have to drop her off again on Fri. so that I can do some work and pack. I'll be crossing my fingers and toes for the next few days hoping that she doesn't come down with a cold.