would you go to Disney at 34 weeks pregnant

[emmababy]

We are contemplating a trip next spring and right now it is booked April 30-May 7. We have decided to go for baby #3!

Well, if we are soo lucky to get preggers this month, then that would make my due date June 16 or so. I have been to WDW 4 months pregnant and that wasn't so bad, but I don't know if I am crazy to go when I would be only 6 weeks from delivery.

Please help!!

 

[becky_AK]

When I was 34 weeks pregnant I was just starting to get to that point where I was feeling a little uncomfortable. I guess it would depend on how you feel, what your fitness levels are (walking a lot during the day w/ an added 30-40 pounds can get tiring), and what your physician says. I think the most important thing is to talk to you physician and see what s/he says. Would you be flying? I think that is right around the time where they start to discourage you from flying in case you go into labor early.

Good luck!!!

 

[kalc12345]

I would be sure to talk with your doctor and see what he/she says. I wouldn't travel that late in the pregnancy but I have complicated pregnancies and wouldn't want to be too far from my doctor.

 

[J'aime Paris]

I would not. We live in WI, and that's too far away from home if something happens. Now if we lived and hour or two away by car, that would be different...

 

[crisi]

No, and my doctor wouldn't have allowed it. I was on partial bedrest. And you aren't six weeks from delivery - you are potentially two. Mine was a 38 week full term baby.

 

[emmababy]

Thanks for your replies. Well I guess we will know in a month whether to rearrange our trip!

 

[ShellyShellfish]

I'm 34 weeks pregnant now and couldn't FATHOM going to WDW...I'm to the point where it's pee breaks every hour, waking up a few times a night, not to mention braxton hicks contractions and general fatigue.

Granted - how you feel is personal to you, but I wouldn't take the risk or put added stress on your body. Plus I believe airlines won't let you fly after 36 weeks (I'm missing a wedding thanks to that rule) and who's to say you don't have complications or go into pre-term labor?

I'd move the trip up if you can (ideally in the 2nd trimester when you feel the best!) and save the later part of your pregnancy to relax and prepare for baby.

Good luck!

 

[mejkjj97]

I would also suggest checking with the airlines policies on top of your doctor. Some airline within a period of time before your due date also require medical approval showing you are healthy enough to fly. Most seem 4 weeks out and some don't care.
I was looking at this when we were planning our recent trip and trying to time everything.

 

[PilotWife]

I would have to say NO I WOULD NOT DO IT....BUT I delivered one at 39 weeks (big healthy baby) my second baby was not a "high risk" and we went on vacation at 30 weeks pregnant (OKed by my DR, but it was not a high maintance trip like DW) and went into the hospital on the 2nd day, and delivered 12 hours later....at almost 31 weeks. It was horrible being out of town, with a Dr I didnt know, and a newborn in NICU (for 5 weeks) and a toddler.

So, I wouldnt do it! But that is me!

Jennifer

 

[disprincessatheart]

I couldn't do it now and I'm a couple days shy of 25 weeks and have only gained 8 or 9 pounds! Even if you're totally fine, I'd think it'd be too stressful - I'd be worried right up until we went and the whole time there hoping that I didn't go into labor out of state.

We had a trip planned this year for NYE and had to cancel when I found out I was pregnant and due 12/25. Figures I'd go and get pregnant at just the right time to kill the NYE trip it took me 7 years to talk DH into! Of course now we can take our little guy to WDW for the holidays AND his birthday in some year to come - then we can both guilt DH into it!

 

[BuzznBelle'smom]

No way. I would have been miserably uncomfortable and exhausted. Not to mention the issues of flying, being away from my regular doctor/hospital, tending to my other children--just, no way!

Reschedule if you get pregnant--Disney will still be there. BTW, I personally wouldn't go pregnant at all, because I have miserable pregnancies (morning sickness and exhaustion for 9 months). I did go with a 6mo, though, and that was fine. And as others have mentioned, depending on your personal style, going in the second trimester or with a newborn might work.

 

[kevschickee]

No I wouldn't and my Dr wouldn't have ok'd it. Also you have to check your insurance because mine stated that if you traveled in the last 5 wees of your pregnancy and gave birth in a hospital not under their plan they would not pay for the delivery. That would be a ton of money and I wouldn't want to chance it.

 

[cassiez76]

i wouldn't go. and i couldn't go. i was monitored twice a week the last 2 months at the hospital due to high blood pressure. everything was fine, but the dr. tortured me with that. i was also scheduled for a c-section at 39 weeks.

i wouldn't have been able to walk that long cause my feet hurt from about 5 months until i delivered. and don't even mention the pee breaks i had to take! hubby was wondering why we used so much TP. he didn't realize i was up at least 4 times a nite.

 

[bigbabyblues]

No, I wouldn't. I had my first DS at 36 weeks and the second at 35. I didn't have complications, but my doc had already forbidden travel before that.

 

[ireland_nicole]

No way would I chance it; I had two extremely early babies and I can't imagine being in the situation pilots wife was in; just not worth the risk.

 

[Ashley Kees]

Only if I lived within half a day's drive AND it was winter. In late Sping heat, absolutely not. There were moments in the third trimester when I felt like I was going to spontaneously combust just sitting quietly in my house in the air conditioning. I'm pretty sure a half a day at Animal Kingdom would have roasted me alive.

BUT, that's just me.

 

[Colleen27]

I have to agree with everyone else; I wouldn't want to be that far from home that close to my due date. I've gone to Disney pregnant twice, at 8 weeks and 16 weeks, but anything past about 30 weeks would be beyond my comfort level. Physically I could have handled it just fine, but the "what ifs" would keep me from enjoying the trip.

 

[ktlm]

No way! My Dr.'s orders were "do not fly after 30 weeks and do not drive anywhere farther than 2-3 hours from home, unless you plan to potentially have the baby where ever you are going and get stuck there" and that was with me having a completely problem free pregnancy (at least until the last day when I went into labor exactly at 37 weeks and what happened thereafter is a whole other story with luckily a happy ending). Some co-workers of mine are good friends with a family who took what was supposed to be a few day trip for a wedding when she was 31 weeks and she went into labor on the trip. She had the baby in a different state at a strange hospital and then the baby was in NICU there for a month. The wife was stuck there and after the 1st week mostly alone as the husband had to fly home some because of work and their other child. Plus, they had to make arrangements to basically have someone else take care of their other child for a month because mom couldn't have him at the hospital in the other state with her and dad was working and flying back and forth. What an absolute nightmare. After hearing that story, I would never risk at trip that late in pregnancy. I know from my own labor experience that things don't always go they way you think they will.

 

[SDFgirl]

Nope, I definitely wouldn't. That's at the stage of my pregnancies when I get really uncomfortable, and Disney wouldn't be any fun at all when you're feeling achey, grumpy, huge, and hot! NOOOOO WAY!

 

[Tinatoo]

All that walking!!! Might give you a preemie!!!