pregnancy

[ganurse]

i know you cant go past either the 20 or 24 week of pregnancy, have any of you ever gone this late? just wondering, just in case

 

[Lloyd Dobler]

I believe the cut-off is 24 weeks, based on the DCL brouchure on my desk.

I've never been pregnant....

 

[sap1227]

We cruised when I was 2 weeks before the cut off date (I am thinking 22 weeks, but I can not remember for sure) and everything was fine. No one asked any questions (and I was very visably showing, I am one of those lucky people who show from day 1). We had a wonderful time and I can not wait until we are able to take the new baby on a Disney Cruise.

 

[mickeyboat]

Lots of pregnant people on my cruise in March! Thank goodness I was not one of them.

Denae

 

[walczak4]

I was 22 weeks along on our last Disney cruise (looked like I was 32 weeks along though!). We still had a great time. On really hot days I would sit by the goofy pool sipping a non-alcoholic pina colada, watching hubby & our 3YO playing in the pool. The only "problem" I had was the day we were in Key West it was SO hot & humid that I got kind of sick so we returned to the ship pretty early.

Tracey

 

[castlegazer]

I went on a cruise at 24 weeks - just at the cutoff - we cruised on Celebrity, though. I had my doctor's note with me, but was never asked for it. It was wonderful to do this cruise as it was and still is a very long time till we can cruise again and its our favorite way to vacation - BUT - it was not as enjoyable as past cruises were for us. 1st - I had terrible acid problems throughout my pregnancy, add rocking boat to the mix and you have industrial sizes of Tums being consumed. 2nd - I was exhausted every evening so we missed a lot of activity at night. 3rd - By this point you are getting pretty clutzy so you need to be extra careful. I stepped of a bus in Barbados and oops, severely spraigned my ankle and had to spend the day in the ships hospital getting X-rays. The next three days I was in a wheelchair and was not able to walk. 4th - Non-alcoholic Pina Coladas are pretty expensive and can rack up quite a bill. It just wasn't the same for me to be on a cruise and not be sipping Pina Coladas by the pool. I splurged on fizzy water a lot.

So, by all means go, but know when you book it that you will have some limitations due to both your growing girth and however well you are handling your pregnancy.

 

[tvguy]

Wow, they have restrictions now on pregnancy?
My wife was 7 months pregnant with our now 17 year old and we went on a cruise on another line with no problems at all.

 

[Lloyd Dobler]

Most lines have similar restrictions. Carnival's is 27 weeks, Princess is anyone in the third trimester, which works out to about 27 weeks if you assume a 40-week pregnancy. HAL's is, like DCL, 24 weeks.

While the ship's medical facilities could probably handle a delivery, it is definitely not an optimal situation, and I would tend to doubt that ships' doctors are OB/GYNs. It's not out of the question that someone go into labor in their 24th week.

Infants under 12 weeks old are also not allowed on board.

 

[HooKooDooKu]

While the ship's medical facilities could probably handle a delivery, it is definitely not an optimal situation, and I would tend to doubt that ships' doctors are OB/GYNs. It's not out of the question that someone go into labor in their 24th week.

I don't think it's so much of a question of can they handle a delivery, but the fact that there are too many things that can go wrong during a delivery, and you know how lawsuit happy people are, especially when something goes wrong to that special day.

But I also think the problem is that they are not set up to handle the complications that can occur with any premature infant. With the proper care, 24 weeks is about the current time that our current medical knowledge allows fetuses to be viable.

 

[CheapMom]

just wondering, just in case

Are you trying to tell us something???

 

[CAMICKEY]

hmmm - CheapMom - Good point. ganurse - any response? - Mike