Travel at 34 weeks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, because I have birth to my first at 32 weeks, and it's only due to progesterone injections and being careful that my second stayed until 38 weeks.

Off topic but in case you see this…I also had progesterone injections (Makena) for my 2nd. Soon after it was proven ineffective and pulled from the market. Additionally, I had a girl and girls born to parents who took Makena are at much higher risks for some cancers so i will have to let her know her risks (such as colon) as she gets older so she can monitor it. Still statistically likely to be okay but you may want to be aware if you had a daughter.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think people have really wacky risk management skills in these type of situations. Lets say you are travelling to Buffalo NY. It's a 7 hour drive from DC. If you fly out of lets say National you will be within a half hour of multiple hospitals with high level NICUs. Not to mention able to walk around and stretch, pee whenever you want and eat/snack. Then you'll be in the air for about 80 minutes before landing in another large population center at an airport that almost certainly has medical staff somewhere and lots of accelerated ways for emergency vehicles to get in and out.

If you drive to Buffalo you will spend probably 8 hours traveling (even if drive time is 7, especially as a very pregnant woman who likely will need to stop to use the bathroom a few times. You will be driving for multiple hours on unfamiliar highways with no knowledge of nearby medical facilities. You could easily get stuck in a traffic jam where, unlike if you are stuck on a tarmac in an airport, emergency vehicles could have a really difficult time reaching you.

Very few labors come on and are resolved in 90 minutes, and the risks that would come with that would be just as significant if you were in a car in bumeff upstate NY.

I might prefer to drive but all of this drama about flying being a lot more dangerous is cray cray. For a very short flight like this I would consider flying the safer option.

I would not travel anywhere at that point in pregnancy where my destination didn't have a hospital I felt comfortable giving birth at though. I would want to know what hospital I preferred there and where it was.

Some people don’t want to risk having a baby out of state Pp. It’s not rocket science. Just because you can doesn’t make it right.

What is the issue about being out of state?

A) no treatment team arranged and typically no time to research a hospital with at least level 3 nicu
B) if your kid is stuck in nicu for months, you're also stuck wherever they are...which is very hard if you have a job, another kid, a house, pets, don't want to live out of a hotel indefinitely

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have experience if you are in the 35 plus range? Does this really change? I’ve carried two kids to term previously.

Each labor tends to be faster than the last. I would not want to have a baby or come close to it on an airplane!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, because I have birth to my first at 32 weeks, and it's only due to progesterone injections and being careful that my second stayed until 38 weeks.

Off topic but in case you see this…I also had progesterone injections (Makena) for my 2nd. Soon after it was proven ineffective and pulled from the market. Additionally, I had a girl and girls born to parents who took Makena are at much higher risks for some cancers so i will have to let her know her risks (such as colon) as she gets older so she can monitor it. Still statistically likely to be okay but you may want to be aware if you had a daughter.

I declined the shots and the doctor treated me bad. My second made it to 38 weeks without any shots. Sometimes mama knows best!