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Travelling with a baby is mostly a packing problem. The trip itself is fine once you are there, but getting through an airport, a long drive or a week at someone else's house comes down to whether the right three or four things came with you.
The Short List That Does Most of the Work
Almost every trip needs the same four things: something to push your baby in, somewhere safe for them to sleep, a way to feed them away from your kitchen, and enough to keep them occupied between one place and the next.
Everything else is optional and can usually be bought at the other end. Working from those four categories is what stops a boot filling up with things that get carried around for a week and never opened.
How you travel changes the list more than where you go. A road trip can carry the everyday pram and the good travel cot, while a flight forces choices about weight and folded size that a car boot never asks you to make.
Shop Travel by Category
It is easier to pack a category at a time than to work from one long list, so this is where most families start:
Getting Through an Airport
A cabin-sized pram is the difference between wheeling your baby to the gate and carrying them through the terminal. The compact frames fold in one movement and go in the overhead locker on most airlines, so nothing waits on the carousel at the other end.
A transport bag matters if the pram goes in the hold, since baggage handling is where wheels and canopies get damaged. Check your airline's cabin rules before you fly, because the allowance varies more than you would expect between carriers on the same route.
The other thing worth sorting before you leave is the car at the other end. Hire cars rarely come with a seat you would choose, so families flying domestically often take their own capsule or book the seat well ahead rather than accepting whatever turns up at the counter.
Sleeping Somewhere Unfamiliar
A travel cot is the piece most families underestimate. Hotel cots are unpredictable and a friend's spare room rarely has one, so bringing your own is what turns a night away into a night your baby actually sleeps through.
The ones worth buying open in seconds with the mattress already in place. Setting the cot up at home a few times before you leave is worth the effort, since a baby who has napped in it already treats it as familiar rather than strange.
Travel Brands We Stock
Joolz andUPPAbaby cover the premium compact end with the Aer2 and the Minu V3, both built around a fold that clears an overhead locker without giving up the ride.
Mountain Buggy brings the Nano V3 for families who want something light and hard-wearing,Britax Safe-n-Sound covers the everyday end with the Flylite, andBugaboo handles both halves of the trip with the Butterfly stroller and the Stardust travel cot. These are just some of the brands we carry.
Packing the Rest of the Trip
Travel gear is one part of what goes in the car, and the everyday things you already own usually come too. Browse our full range oftravel gear, or pick up what else the trip needs:
We post Australia-wide, and if you tell our team where you are going and how long for, they will work through the list with you atAlexandria orMiranda.