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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m supposed to leave for Europe on Sunday, we have a 12 day trip planned with another couple.

I just found out I’m pregnant 2 weeks ago and morning sickness and fatigue have already hit. I have no desire to travel around Europe right now. DH keeps telling me “it will be fine” but frankly, he’s not the one with constant nausea and feeling like crap.

I told DH we should either go when I’m in my second trimester and some of the nausea has subsided and I can enjoy the trip more, but he still wants to go. I don’t. Everyone keeps telling me to go, but I just don’t want to. The trip is going to take up all my accrued leave and I now want to save that leave for the pregnancy, considering I’ve only been at my job 10 months and am not eligible for FMLA yet.

I’m moreso pissed that DH is being unsupportive about me not wanting to go. I understand his reasoning for feeling upset, but I feel like crap ALL the time. [/quote]

Oh man, OP, that sucks. I found out that I was pregnant with my first on day 3 of a 10 day vacation in Italy (fun tourist experience: learn how to ask for a pregnancy test from a pharmacy in a small town in Italy!). It was pretty awful. I was exhausted and just wanted to sleep for 12 hours a day when everyone else wanted to hike and go to the beach. I was nauseous all the time, and being in an area where everyone smokes and everything smells like old wet ocean rocks and seafood was miserable. I was also mad about not being able to drink the wine or the coffee, but tried to console myself with gelato and as much pizza and pasta as I could keep down.

I think that if I had it to do over again, whether I went or not would really depend on what our trip was going to be. We were going to the Cinque Terre and the plan was a lot of hiking and hanging out on the beach. I was able to manage some of that - sleeping on the beach while DH went in the water, read, etc. Hiking the trail between towns was a little more difficult and we didn't do as much of that as we'd originally planned. We were staying in a rental apartment, and I made a point of napping in the afternoon (either at the apartment or on the beach) every day we were there. Fortunately, my DH was not a jerk about my reduced activity and didn't mind spending more time in the apartment than originally planned. If anything, I think I was more annoyed about the situation than he was. If we had planned to do a lot of tourist stuff in a big city, I think I would probably have tried to reschedule the trip because I could really only manage 2 meals and one activity per day, and even that wasn't always that fun for me.

Given that you are going with other people, I think that you should try to suck it up to the extent possible. You will probably have SOME fun, but it definitely won't be the vacation you planned. GL![/quote]

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