What is up with this formatting? Does anyone know how to fix this? I will reply to two posts here. There are many things on this earth you "can" do. All people of all sizes should be secured properly on any moving vehicle. That goes for infants to the elderly in both cars and planes. We should all have a proper restraining device for our size. The smaller the person the more important that is. If you need a car seat, you should be using a proper plane seat for your child. Yes, the so far airlines(with some taxis and buses) look the other way if the person is less than two. That is all about business and money and has no basis in science for the health of the little one.

In most BVI cruises it never really gets rough. To say it will never get rough is wrong. When we have little one on a boat. We always have a place thought out ahead of time to secure the child(who cannot secure themselves) outside of the arms of even the best well meaning adults. The key points are a dry location where nothing will fall on them, no one will fall on them, and where they will not be tragically hurt when they or an adult fall with them. Falling from one side of a heavily or suddenly healed boat can be catastrophic. A mom carrying a child is always short arms and hands even on flat stable ground. If the conditions require using handholds to move around. The babies have to go in the restraints. That is true for boats, planes, and cars for us.

Every child is different. Even the 50 year old dehydrated and gassed with rhum. The key is a secure location coupled with a device that protects each child from sudden unexpected movement of the car, bus, boat, or plane. Most of us do that everyday in our cars since the 60/70's?

Here is how one family does it.

http://www.windtraveler.net/2013/03/bringing-up-baby-on-boat.html