No travel after 24 weeks?!

stampygarrett · January 2011

My doctor said no travel after 24 weeks - I was shocked! I have a family wedding when I will be 28 weeks that is a 3 hour drive away and I wouldn't be staying overnight. The doctor said I could do what I wanted to do but she doesn't reccommend it and "how would I feel if I went and something happened?"

Okay then, guess I'm staying home? Thank goodness my family is all flying to Georgia from Texas to throw me a shower!

What have your doctors said about travel?

CarlaAndJames · January 2011

Wow, that's really strict!!

My dr said he doesn't want me to fly past 32 weeks, but he's taking a "wait and see" approach to the 5 hour car ride + overnight stay I want to do at 36 weeks. ( I really want to see my baby sister graduate from college!)

Pockety · January 2011

Are you having a high risk pregnancy?

My doctor said no international travel after 32 weeks, and no domestic travel after 36 weeks. She also suggested purchasing trip insurance on a trip I'm taking to Mexico when I'll be 25-26 weeks, in case complications arise and I need to cancel.

DaisyJanie · January 2011

Eh, I'd ignore her, but that's just me. I'm assuming they have hospitals where you are going, in the unlikely event that "something" happens. My midwives have clients that travel 3 hours to deliver, so I can't imagine they have a problem with short drives in the second trimester.

MrsStrand2be · January 2011

Wow, I have never heard that. We have a family trip to Hawaii planned for when I'm about 34 weeks and my doc said he didn't see an issue with me going as long as there were no complications. We are going to get travel insurance in case something does happen and I can't go, but everything I have read said it is safe to travel up to 36 weeks.

nic5606 · January 2011

That is not the norm, especially if your are driving and not flying.

I work in the medical field and from my experience and what my doc has told me: safe to fly up to 30 weeks, some doc's say longer depending on how your pregnancy is going.

Are you having issues with your pregnancy or considered high risk? I would ask your doctor about this. I hope you get to go to the wedding.

Pretzel80 · January 2011

That sounds crazy to me unless you are high risk!! My OB said not to fly after 35 weeks.

And as others have said, there are hospitals that you can go to if "something" were to happen along the way. I'd totally go an not even worry about it!!

FWIW, my OB told me not to ski but I'm doing it anyway and I told her that. Ultimately its up to YOU and what YOU feel comfortable doing. IMO, you can't stop living your life for 9 months!

mlmtgg · January 2011

are you high risk at this point? I know every doc is different, but mine is fine with me flying across country at 29/30 weeks (I'll take med file with me and letter from her), and then doesn't recommend any other flying after 32 weeks, and car trips should be case by case.

courtneybrooke921 · January 2011

that's early from everything I have read/heard!

I will be flying to Fort Lauderdale at 27 1/2 weeks and that will be the last of my flying until post-baby.

(We cancelled a trip to Mexico.. I would have been 34 weeks).

We are going to NYC for our 1 year anniversary and I'll be 32 weeks.... we're going by train and NYC has hospitals so I'm not concerned

i think if you are feeling good, you should go!!!

seattlestef · January 2011

That also seems really early to me. Even pregnant with twins, I did a few hour day trips up until 32 weeks. Unless there is a specific concern regarding your pregnancy I think it would be totally fine.

bt3701 · January 2011

I was told no travel after 28 weeks, and that is considered conservative! But, my spring break falls when I am 29-30 weeks, and we would like to get away then.

They will monitor how things are going, and as long as I have no complications it will be fine. We won't go far though--not more than a few hour flight. I have to make sure everything I book is refundable just in case.

NovNYC2006 · January 2011

My 2 cents.... As a flight attendant? We have to stop flying (working) at 26 weeks. Meaning that most doctors would let a woman at 24 weeks push and pull a 250 pound beverage cart up and down the aisles of the airplane!!! I can't imagine why at 24 weeks your doctor says you couldn't travel! That seems crazy.

DreamChaser246 · January 2011

I wasn't given restrictions, but the one thing I was told that if I did go on a long car ride, to get up and move every hour or so. Clots form much easier in pregnancy so the danger comes in not moving for long periods of time. So she was ok with it as long as I was getting up and moving around more often than normal.

AmsterdamMa*am · January 2011

DaisyJanie:
Eh, I'd ignore her, but that's just me.

Me too, right after I laughed out loud at this order.

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