Travelling while pregnant?
 

Anyone travelled to europe when roughly 4 months pregnant that could share any experiences? Any health concerns flying 8 hours to europe?

At four months your baby is floating in water and you will be floating on air.<BR>Just enjoy your trip.<BR>Your freedom will be severely restricted once the baby is born!

Second trimester is usually a great time to do anything - usually you feel great, are not too huge yet, morning sickness gone, etc. Just make sure you stay well hydrated. Your feet may swell on the flight, but that will go away; same with a lot of walking - any shoes that were a little tight to begin with won't get any better. Europe should be fine as far as food, sanitation, health care if you should need it. Have a good trip. Tell your kid s/he went to Europe before birth (my kid went to the Bahamas before he was born and had a great time)

When I was about that pregnant I took a trip to Grand Caymen. To make a long story short, a hurricane arrived 2 days after i did. we were evacuated from the hotel and spent the night on the floor in a school gymnasium with hundreds of other people. It really wasn't as bad as it sounds. I had no problems. It wasn't exactly the vacation I was planning on but it worked out fine. In fact, the fetus just turned 13 today! I think a trip to Europe is not a problem at all, especially if you are feeling well, but check with your Dr. first to make sure.

I traveled to London and Paris when I was 5 months pregnant with my daughter and had a fine time. At the British Museum, I was ushered to the front of the queue for the ladies' room by a very solicitous matron! <BR><BR>But one of my colleagues who was 6 months pregnant (we made quite a spectacle giving a presentation together, LOL) went into labor<BR>on the plane on the way home and delivered prematurely.<BR><BR>ALSO, several years later, when I was 3 or 4 months pregnant with my son, I was on a relatively short flight (Cleveland to Boston) that experienced a sudden pressure drop (people were screaming from the pain in their ears) and in the cab on the way home from the airport I started hemorrahaging (a couple of days of bed rest and I was OK). <BR><BR>This got me to wondering about whether there has actually been any research on the effects of flying on pregnancy. There hasn't been! <BR><BR>Remember, fetal alcohol syndrome, which has probably been with us since our ancestors discovered alcohol, was not recognized by the medical profession until the mid-1970s. If doctors don't have information to analyze, and don't ask the right questions, they won't get the right answers! When I saw my doctor about the hemorrhaging, he certainly didn't ask or find out about my travel, much less report this correlation to anyone.<BR><BR>The bottom line is, knowing what I do now (i.e., there's no evidence that it's safe, the research simply has NOT been done), I would not fly when pregnant. Doctors telling you it's safe could turn out to be the same as doctors who told moms it was OK to drink while pregnant, up until just 25 years ago. Flying could be having a significant negative impact and the medical professions wouldn't know simply because nobody's thought to ask the right questions -- as someone finally did with alcohol.