Would you go away for a 3 day weekend about 2 wks before due date?

vtgirl

Some friends of ours invited us to a beach house about 2 1/2 hrs away from us the last week in July. We would only go for the last weekend of thier vaca but it would be about 13 days before dc#2 is due. I am going to have a repeat C and I just thought it might be a good time to have a nice break, just the 3 of us, before #2 comes along. Would you feel comfortable going? about 2 1/2hrs from home around 38 wks? Thanks!

mommyaug06

I will be 38 weeks with #2 tomorrow. I wouldnt do it. I dont want to leave my house let alone sit in the car for that long. I went away for a 3 day weekend about 3 weeks ago to visit inlaws. A 2 hour drive. I was so uncomfortable!

zacook

my dr wouldn't allow it.. but I would ask yours!!  I would have felt comfortable going when I was preg. w/#1 but with Peyton I had lots of contractions all the time... from like 27wks..she came a week 1/2 early.. so I would wait and see how your pregnancy is going...  hth!

Rebekah1021

I probably wouldn't do it.

stacynikki

NO!  Only because I had DS three weeks early.  My doctor wouldn't have allowed it anyway. 

Schweb

I might have when I was PG with DS, but if I knew now what I didn't know then - NO WAY. DS came so fast, from the time I felt the 1st bit of abdominal discomfort to the moment he came shooting into the world was almost exactly 3 hours. We almost didn't amke it to the hosp - no time for epi.

My friend told me afterwards that having baby #1 is like putting on a brand new turtle neck, but baby #2 is like putting on a turtle neck you've had for many years . . . nice and loose, it slides right on, lickety split.

AnnapolisLari

My doc said no more than 1 hour from the hospital after about 35 weeks.

I had a scheduled c/s this time, and he still said the same thing. So the beach house would be out for me.

LeisureSuitLauren

I think as long as there is a good hospital nearby and you make sure to take your records with you (just the ACOG sheets), and you don't mind possibly delivering in a hospital you are unfamiliar with by a Dr. you don't know- then you should go for it.  I think it would be really nice to have that time with your family before baby comes. 

vtgirl

Well Phooey! But I figured as much! Oh well!!!

KrisBriMcBunny

its not something I would do...I would be too nervous and too uncomfortable

Bellisimo

I wouldn't have simply because I felt like Holy Hell and didn't feel like doing anything much less riding in a car for any distance.  But if you're up for it then go! 

mbg8r

Heck no, I'm with the others. I didn't feel like going to the grocery store much less a car trip!

breezee_bean

I would go, as long as I was near a hospital.  But I felt pretty good at 38 weeks both times.  I wasn't horribly uncomfortable.  I woud probably go and just make time allowances for getting out and stretching my legs. 

 

akgram

Personally I wouldn't do it.  DD#2 came 11 days early and she came so fast I couldn't even have a epidural.  This was a huge shock considering I was in Labor with DD#1 for 20hrs.  Everyone is different but that is pretty close to your due date.  GL!

Flem052204

If I were in your shoes, I would have planned to go, but it would have been a mistake!

As a matter of fact, I did make plans to be OOT at 38 weeks.  I never got that far.  I went into labor at 37 weeks and had a 4 hour labor & delivery.  That's my total l&d, not just starting from when I arrived at the hospital (I arrived at 8cm dilated).  If I had gone into labor while OOT, I would have had a baby on the side of the road!