babymoon timing

bonjourbelle05 · January 2012

Those of you who went on a babymoon at what point in your pregnancy did you go? I know everyone says 2nd trimester is the best time to go, but I'm a teacher, so by the time I have time off (summer) I will be at the beginning of my 3rd trimester and I'm wondering if I'll be too miserable to go (I realize depending on how things proceed my doctor may say no anyway).

cheryl2006 · January 2012

I just wanted to say Congrats!

OUKatie · January 2012

I'm guessing it depends on you. I would be okay with going somewhere at the beginning of my 3rd tri for a 1st pregnancy. Plus, there is the mental factor of being done with work for the summer that always lends an extra air of relaxation to any vacation I would definitely opt for beginning of 3rd tri if moving it up meant taking days off since I find doing multi-day sub plans a huge PITA and then basically need a vacation just to recover from having to make them!

We're going over Spring Break. I'm a teacher, too, but waiting until June is way too late since I'm due in early July! I'll be 23 1/2 weeks when we go on our last vacation before baby.

stever · January 2012

Like everyone is saying, it depends on how your body deals with your pregnancy. I did pretty well with DS but my legs still swelled, and stayed swollen, around 6 months and my back started killing me around 7 months. Not fun for walking around lots, but fine if you wanted to go sit on a beach somewhere.

blu-eyedwife · January 2012

stever:
Like everyone is saying, it depends on how your body deals with your pregnancy. I did pretty well with DS but my legs still swelled, and stayed swollen, around 6 months and my back started killing me around 7 months. Not fun for walking around lots, but fine if you wanted to go sit on a beach somewhere.

This. We did our baby moon around 33 weeks, but my pregnancy was really easy. When I told the nurse about the crazy 4 mile uphill hike we did through the forest she said at that point in her pregnancy she could barely make it off the couch. I suggest waiting till you're a little further along in the pregnancy to book anything, and see how things are going

m+j · January 2012

Congrats on your pregnancy! I'll just chime in to agree with everyone else--it's dependent on how your body handles the pregnancy. With my first pregnancy I felt great throughout and was even running up to 6 miles a day until around 34 weeks. We travel up until around that time. This time, I'm so sick I can barely eat and all I want to do is sleep. I'm hopeful that will change once I get out of first trimester, but I'm definitely not planning anything until I know for sure.

bridetobe920 · January 2012

We went to Florida when I was about 25 weeks pregnant and had a great time. I was past the morning sickness, but not uncomfortable at that point. It was the perfect time to go for us, and we had a really nice time just relaxing and enjoying each other's company.

Congrats on your pregnancy!

Wiscisbliss · January 2012

I was fine for vacation and travel up until about 7 months. But, I don't think that is true for everyone. I am really tall, so I am carrying the baby pretty well (still don't look uber pregnant today) and didn't have a ton of discomfort. Mostly just heart burn.

giggles0918 · January 2012

I plan on taking mine in the middle of my 7th month(April) and I'm due in June. My dr said I could go up until 8 months if I wanted to.

pinotgirl · January 2012

We're going next week on ours. I'll be in my 21st week. Part of me is a little nervous to go as we'll be in a different country and/or on a cruiseship for 9 days. Hopefully nothing will go wrong, but I've had a fairly easy pregnancy so far *knock on wood* other than some round ligament pains.

1st Trimester was rough as I was so sleepy! And I think 3rd might be really uncomfortable if you're driving/flying anywhere. So I'd stick with the 2nd Tri if you can.

Katy&KT · January 2012

We had our babymoon planned for 14 weeks and had to cancel two days before leaving due to some unexpected complications (daily bleeding that lasted for 3 weeks). Around 25 weeks everything had looked good for awhile so we rescheduled our trip for 30 weeks.

We went to Hawaii from Wisconsin last week and had no issues at all. I did fine on the flights and our time in Hawaii was wonderful and super relaxing. We went with the intention of doing nothing at all and it was perfect-if you are going on an active trip I would have wanted to go earlier.

My personal tips 1) Make sure you buy trip insurance or that everything is cancelable-we would have been out lots of money if we hadn't done this. 2) Don't plan your dream trip-we travel a lot and have been to Hawaii and I was still disappointed when we had to cancel our trip. I can't imagine how I would have felt if it had been one of our dream trip locations.

My doctor OK's international travel to 35 weeks and travel in the US to 36 weeks. I personally didn't feel comfortable leaving the US due to language barriers, but that was just a personal decision.

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