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The Long-Haul Flight To Australia With A Baby And The First Week Of Jet Lag

Sleeping baby in an airplane bassinet beside mother during a long-haul flight to Australia.
November 5, 2026
Getting a baby to sleep 16 hours from home, in summer heat. Somewhere over the Pacific, at what my body insisted was 3am and the cabin lights insisted was lunchtime, I stood in a cramped airplane bathroom changing my daughter's diaper and wondered why we had thought this was a...