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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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. :) [/quote]

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).  [/quote]

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