Would you go on a seven hour flight when 33 weeks pregnant?

[Anonymous]

I personally would not since my first came early after extremely fast precipitous labor. But if that wasn't the case, I might consider it since your DH will be with you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes I would, the medical care you would get in Europe, if necessary, would be as god as you would get here.

Nope. The medical care over there is nowhere near as good as what you would get here (assuming OP has good health insurance here).

Even still, the quality of health care will be the least of OP's problems if she delivers in the middle of a trip, far from home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes I would, the medical care you would get in Europe, if necessary, would be as god as you would get here.

Nope. The medical care over there is nowhere near as good as what you would get here (assuming OP has good health insurance here).

Even still, the quality of health care will be the least of OP's problems if she delivers in the middle of a trip, far from home.

This!

The idea of making a return trip on an airplane with a premature newborn? Worth it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I personally would not since my first came early after extremely fast precipitous labor. But if that wasn't the case, I might consider it since your DH will be with you.

Is DH a doctor?

[Anonymous]

I think OP has already decided that it is fine--she just wants people to support her. She probably will be fine--but, I wouldn't risk it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes I would, the medical care you would get in Europe, if necessary, would be as god as you would get here.

Nope. The medical care over there is nowhere near as good as what you would get here (assuming OP has good health insurance here).

Even still, the quality of health care will be the least of OP's problems if she delivers in the middle of a trip, far from home.

This!

The idea of making a return trip on an airplane with a premature newborn? Worth it?[/quote

Op, your doctor the ok, I have never even heard anyone declining to travel at that stage. I took a five hour out west at a similar stage and didn’t think twice. The glass half empty folks here aren’t who I would take advice from.

[Anonymous]

"Sort of a family reunion" is unimportant compared to a healthy baby

[Anonymous]

Op here. Thank you for everyone weighing in! We are now on the no scale. I will be sad to miss seeing everyone as it is my grandmothers milestone bday and cousins I have not seen for awhile will be there. But alas, I am quite scared to go now! Perhaps I will repost once baby is few months old so you can tell me how crazy I am for asking you all of I can take a four month baby on a seven hour flight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thank you for everyone weighing in! We are now on the no scale. I will be sad to miss seeing everyone as it is my grandmothers milestone bday and cousins I have not seen for awhile will be there. But alas, I am quite scared to go now! Perhaps I will repost once baby is few months old so you can tell me how crazy I am for asking you all of I can take a four month baby on a seven hour flight.

I think you made the best choice. Parenting is hard. There are a lot more choices coming on down the line where you'll again have to put the safety and health of your child ahead of your own desires. I can practically guarantee that there will be very few of your relatives who think you are doing the wrong thing and I bet almost all of them, including Grandma, will tell you that you're doing the right thing. Chances are it would have been fine but if something had gone wrong would you have been able to live with it? Best wishes for the arrival of a happy and healthy baby!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes I would, the medical care you would get in Europe, if necessary, would be as god as you would get here.

I don't want to argue with you but have you ever been in a hospital in a foreign country because of a medical emergency? I have. I don't recommend it and I got the best quality of care possible. It is upsetting enough to be having a medical emergency but then to complicate it with potential language barriers, cultural barriers, procedural barriers, etc., it is too much.

In my case I didn't have a choice because I was in an accident caused by a drunk driver. There is no way that I would purposefully choose to put myself into a potential emergency situation in a foreign country when I was 33 or 34 weeks pregnant.

Yes and you have to consider whether you would be in the public hospital versus private. We lived overseas in western Europe and had access to private due to being USG, which was fine but I would not want to deal with the public system as a non citizen with no ties to the Embassy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thank you for everyone weighing in! We are now on the no scale. I will be sad to miss seeing everyone as it is my grandmothers milestone bday and cousins I have not seen for awhile will be there. But alas, I am quite scared to go now! Perhaps I will repost once baby is few months old so you can tell me how crazy I am for asking you all of I can take a four month baby on a seven hour flight.

Dear lord, you listen to these fools over your doctor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thank you for everyone weighing in! We are now on the no scale. I will be sad to miss seeing everyone as it is my grandmothers milestone bday and cousins I have not seen for awhile will be there. But alas, I am quite scared to go now! Perhaps I will repost once baby is few months old so you can tell me how crazy I am for asking you all of I can take a four month baby on a seven hour flight.

Dear lord, you listen to these fools over your doctor?

I'm still trying to figure out what doctor would support this. Sure, if it were a family emergency, but at 34 weeks when she returns?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thank you for everyone weighing in! We are now on the no scale. I will be sad to miss seeing everyone as it is my grandmothers milestone bday and cousins I have not seen for awhile will be there. But alas, I am quite scared to go now! Perhaps I will repost once baby is few months old so you can tell me how crazy I am for asking you all of I can take a four month baby on a seven hour flight.

Dear lord, you listen to these fools over your doctor?

Pp., your doctor can see the future? Good reason to go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thank you for everyone weighing in! We are now on the no scale. I will be sad to miss seeing everyone as it is my grandmothers milestone bday and cousins I have not seen for awhile will be there. But alas, I am quite scared to go now! Perhaps I will repost once baby is few months old so you can tell me how crazy I am for asking you all of I can take a four month baby on a seven hour flight.

Dear lord, you listen to these fools over your doctor?

You know if the only way you can express disagreement with other people is by calling them names then you might want to think about if you are mature enough to participate in the discussion. I don't think the Lord can help you with that but perhaps your parents can.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. Thank you for everyone weighing in! We are now on the no scale. I will be sad to miss seeing everyone as it is my grandmothers milestone bday and cousins I have not seen for awhile will be there. But alas, I am quite scared to go now! Perhaps I will repost once baby is few months old so you can tell me how crazy I am for asking you all of I can take a four month baby on a seven hour flight.

OP, you made the right choice. I am from Europe, I visited my family this winter and read an article in the news paper about a couple from Russia that had traveled to a resort in the Alps with the wife 7 month pregnant for a week vacation. well, she gave birth prematurely. she got great medical care, but the baby was still in the NICU (had been there for 7 weeks already). my country has socialized health care and EU citizens don't pay anything. however, these people are not EU citizens and the hospital was going to charge them a de-minims amount for the care, which was still tens of thousands of euros. the Russians had travel insurance, but the insurance refused to pay because obviously that was not a covered reason (pre-existing condition). in a similar situation, a couple from Iowa who traveled to as Asian country (with no socialized medicine) was charged half a million dollar (or a million dollar, I cant remember) and the country took their passports away so they could not come back to the US if they did not pay. I am not sure how that ended. in short, traveling out of the country when you are 34 weeks pregnant is not smart because there is the chance that the baby arrives early (not that rare, I know more than one person who had a baby before 34 weeks) and even if everything goes well medically, you may be stuck abroad for weeks and be responsible for $$$$$$ in lodging and medical costs.

as for traveling with a 4 month old baby, I did it, traveling by myself with a 2 month baby to Europe after a C-section, it is actually easier than traveling overseas with a 2 year old (BTDT).