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A Trip for Two
Traveling While Pregnant
By Gail Pirics
Regardless of how smoothly a pregnancy is going along, complications can crop up at any time without warning. To better prepare for an emergency obtain an up-to-date prenatal record from your physician to carry with you when you travel and research the area where you will be staying for nearby hospitals. Above all, expect the unexpected and weigh the risks before setting off.
Dr. Morrison recounts one of his patients who traveled to Puerto Rico at 28 weeks pregnant. "When her water bag ruptured while she was there they kept her in a Puerto Rican hospital for three months and she wasn't happy," he says. "The fact that she traveled didn't cause it, but being stuck there with her other two kids here wasn't good for her either."
Donna Zilske, a mother of three living in Westmont, Ill., traveled during two of her pregnancies – twice by air for business and once by car for vacation. While she did not encounter any emergencies, she says traveling pregnant was trouble enough.
At 20 weeks pregnant she flw alone on a five-hour flight from Chicago to Seattle for business. At 28 weeks she took a shorter 45-minute jaunt with a co-worker to St. Louis. "My doctor said that flying was all right, just to wear my seat belt low and keep it on during the flight – but I spent most of [the time] in the bathroom throwing up," she says. "I am usually prone to motion sickness in cars but not normally on airplanes. I was nauseous the whole time."
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