Arriving In Cambridge

Overall,  travelling alone with Juniper wasn't bad. The flight was empty and the airplane noise muffled any little cries she had. At 4 1/2 months she is happy just being in mama's lap, awake or asleep, which is actually starting to be a bit of an issue. From what I hear from other mothers, I should enjoy it while I can. That is part of the specialness of this year in Cambridge for me: to give my full attention (as much as a person can) to Juniper.
At the end of the 7 hour flight I got a few comments on how they never heard a peep from her. I managed to use the airplane toilet with her in my lap a couple times. Yeah, I could have asked a flight attendant for help, but we were already in there to change her (one toilet had a changing table in it luckily). She did a big poopers right after takeoff so we had to wait 45 minutes to reach 30,000 ft and the silly seatbelt light to be turned off.
I didn't really manage to get any sleep from 3am that morning until 3am the next morning. (Thanks for joining me at 3am and bringing me to the airport Dad!) Still didn't get much the night we arrived either. After we met up with Juni's daddy at the airport (so happy to see his little girl after three weeks), we had fun carrying a baby, a stroller (pram/buggy), and three large pieces of luggage (only one with wheels) up an escalator and onto the Tube. We traveled an hour on the Underground to Kings Station.We then ran to catch the last train to Cambridge with 2 minutes to spare, and only because a customs agent at Heathrow let all the people with children skip the hour+ line(queue). On the train a really nice lady gave us her seat, and then later she handed me a note of all kinds of info to help me get around Cambridge with a baby (she was a mother of two young ones). Then another couple hours on the train and taxi to our guest room at Darwin College at Cambridge University.  This is when our good little pumpkin realized she was overtired and in a foreign place and decided to cry and scream inconsolably. It would have not been so bad, except we weren't suppose to have a baby in the guest rooms!  She finally fell asleep. I slept in some strange position as to not disturb her. All-in-all, not too bad. I didn't feel stressed until maybe a little that last moment, but what is a mother to do? Welcome to Cambridge mum!