Vacations & TTC

latershrader

What do you ladies do about booking vacations in the future? I just booked a cruise for me & DH in January. If I should get my BFP this cycle, I'll be at 27 weeks...which is beyond the cruise line's limitations for pregnant women (typically 24 weeks). I'm going to purchase trip insurance soon anyway. We've only put the deposit down and can cancel up until Nov 4 with no penalties. 

I'm just wondering what your thoughts are...do you book or hold back, just in case?

lgsdesigner

If I were you, I would still book and then get the trip insurance. You don’t want to miss out on the possibility of a baby just because of a vacation schedule. GL!

kelley72

I do not change plans on the chance I might be x amount of weeks pregnant.  I wouldn't purchase the trip insurance, thats just me, if you can canel by Nov....

Lesliem0901

Book it!!!

meredithcarole

You can't predict the future so you should definitely live in the now. If you have to cancel so be it. If not at least you have a chance to get away.

latershrader

Thanks everyone! I'm already booked and planning on going. I live for vacations, so I'm not going to let TTC stop me. But I will take advice from @murrt and buy the insurance closer to the cancellation cut-off. 

gscoville

I book without a second thought and continue to live my life fully. I've been TTC for two years now, if I had not booked trips ahead for fear of being pregnant in the future I would have missed out on our honeymoon to England, amazing trips to Seattle and Portland, and an upcoming trip to Orlando in just a couple of weeks (super expensive tickets for the event we're going to went on sale back in November and were non-refundable, but I obviously went for it).  It would have been a miserable two years missing out on everything if I worried ahead about things that haven't happened yet, in fact one of these trips involved a visit with an elderly family member who has since passed, how stupid it would have been to have missed out on such great experiences and memories based on 'what ifs'.  

CML11

This has been a daily discussion in our house. One of my very good friends is doing a destination wedding in Mexico, it would kill me to miss it, but in order to fly I either have to put off IVF till November (which MH and I don't want to do) or if we could do the ET by like Aug 6th or so I would be due 3-4 weeks prior to the wedding. And even that sounds terrible because I don't know how I could leave our newborn for 5 days or so. I don't think it's possible. DH wants to book and just get the insurance so we can cancel if I do get pregnant prior to November. I just don't know.
What would you ladies do?

supersarah77

We just booked a vacation for the Fall, and if I'm KU that may be a time I either have MS or am really exhausted. Oh well! If I'm going to feel lousy I'd rather do it on the beach.

@soontobeshrader - it sounds like you have a great plan!