Festival and heavily pregnant

[NewFreshStarts]

I booked tickets to go a festival known for its heavy metal next year, the only issue is I'm going to be heavily pregnant - around a month from my due date!
Would you go or would you try to cancel the tickets (they haven't yet been posted as I bought them very early).
I really want to go as it's a really good bands last ever uk appearance but I also don't want to risk baby.

At 8 months pregnant I could have sat down and watched a few bands for sure but sleep in a tent? No way. You’ll have a miserable time. Go in the day but sleep in a hotel if you’re desperate to go.

No way would I camp and I’ve had easy third trimesters. Can you sell on/refund your tickets?

I’m 6 months pregnant and you literally couldn’t pay me to go to a festival right now. I’m aching, tired and weeing all the time. The hard thing is you won’t know what you’ll be like. You might be 8 months and have an easy pregnancy and find the whole thing a breeze or you could be like me and wouldn’t want to touch it with a barge pole. Is there a specific window for reselling tickets? What would be worse for you- missing out if you’re well enough to go or losing money if you can’t? If the former, hold onto the tickets and make a last minute decision knowing you might lose the money if you can’t go. If the latter, sell on and cut your losses now.

Ive been to a few festivals and see pregnant women, if I were you I'd take an inflateable chair that you can get for sitting in, my friend this year (we went to Leeds festival) she had a double air mattress bed, a mattress topper on top, normal pillows and duvet, I lay in there a few times when we were just waiting to go and see acts and it's was honestly so comfy, made me nearly cry to go back to my sleep my bag 😫. I don't think you need to cancel, just take the right precautions and be careful, and you'll be fine xxx

Rent an Air B&B or hotel room near by. I don’t think camping whilst 8 months pregnant would be fun.
I’m going to see Behemoth when I will be 7 months and I’m already hoping there will be seating!

I wouldn't have been able to. I was feeling far too rough, had sore hips and was still puking through the night. I think you'll have to wait and see how you are, I have some friends who breezed through pregnancy and would have loved to have gone.

I camped at 35 weeks during my easiest pregnancy. Not a festival, a very clean, small, quiet family campsite and family were with us to help with the kids. I love camping usually but I absolutely hated it. Life is hard enough at 8 months pregnant without making it unnecessarily harder.

What the shelter like there?

If we have the same weather as last year, you won't want to be out in it.

I would do Download heavily pregnant, but I wouldn't camp. I would see if I could get a camper van pitch or get one of the hotel packages - the Radisson Blu by the airport is nice and not too far away, for example.

I went to gigs when I was 8+ mo pregnant, it was fine, and I had somewhere to rest my drink . And it's also definitely possible post-baby if you decide not to go this year (babysitting permitting obviously) - I spent a lot of time pumping in a camper at Download a couple of years ago.

I also could have gone to a festival but not camped in late pregnancy. At 35 weeks with DC2 I was working 13hr shifts with only a short break, but that doesn't mean you will be able to. There is no way to predict how you will feel by next summer. Some people can barely walk down the street in late pregnancy. You could try booking a hotel room, maybe at the airport, and travelling in each day. That would add to the expense if you then weren't up to it, but you have to weigh that up against how much you would regret it if you resold the tickets and then felt fine when the time came.