This is an incredibly odd question but I was hoping for some advice about this situation. My husband and I (both UA Silver) will be traveling to DCA to visit my brother next month. We have been tasked with bringing him a car seat, 2 bases, and various other baby gear that another family member is giving to him for his upcoming daughter's birth. He is not in the financial position to purchase these things on his own so that is why this is happening.

We are flying both ways on United non-stop. How should we approach this situation? Since we get free checked bags we were thinking of checking one of our large hard-side Delsey's loaded up with one of the bases and the baby gear and then checking the car seat & other base as our second "bag". We have the box they came in, if that is helpful. We will be bringing our items for the trip in a carry-on.

We're child-free so we're completely out of our element with this request. The only things we've come up with so far are multiple jokes about showing up at the airport and pretending we forgot our kid at home (shouting "Kevin!" with the Home Alone face) Incredibly fun, but also unhelpful, haha.

Any advice?

Thank you!