Originally Posted by
Jeff767
One of the reasons babies cry on flights is they are often in tremendous pain. Babies have underdeveloped ear canals and no concept on how to clear there ears. I highly recommend not traveling with a baby under a year old unless you don't mind possibly subjecting your baby to extreme pain and even permanent hearing damage.
- Not underdeveloped ear canals but too small Eustachian tubes that are easily blocked in babies.
- Yes, pain; highly unlikely to cause permanent hearing loss (even a torn/ruptured eardrum isn't a disaster - tons of kids suffer that due to ear infections, sometimes deliberately perforated for drainage, and they do heal)