to want to go to fireworks night when pregnant?

[Angelinamaguire]

My OH doesn't reckon I should go our friends fireworks night party this year as I will be 29 weeks pregnant.

I think i'll be fine but he's scared it will induce birth. i think he's being stupid but i am worried that the fireworks could harm my baby.....

what do you think???

Angelina xx x x

i went last year a month before due date. all was well! go and enjoy yourself!

Regards babies - my dc was born end of october, went when she was just over a week old to first display. She was so cocooned in her buggy due to the cold, she didn't even stir to the fireworks. She now sleeps through anything and everything.

Can't see it being a problem.

Babies definitely can hear noise, but I doubt that even fireworks would be enought to cause serious disturbance - I know when I was about 7m pg, DS started to make his feelings known about me going to band practice - but that was a lot closer up and I could understand his point! Still don't know if he was boogying to the stuff we were playing or banging on the walls to tell us to shut up! I ended up sitting behind a wall of boxes as some sort of baffle against the noise of the drums and amps, but had to concede defeat in the end.

We took DS to his first fireworks when he was 9mo - he found them very exciting, wouldn't have wanted to take him much earlier than that as sudden loud noises scared him.

DC5 is due on Friday and I will be going to the local firework display on Saturday with the other four kids if things have not kicked off before then.

I went to the Edinburgh Tattoo at 32 weeks, lots of fireworks and guns firing etc, DD didn't even react! (she is still laidback).

aaaaaaaaahh im so glad you guys all feel the same! im also absolutely loving what party animals all you guys are as well with all the gigs you've been going too!

if i wasnt to have gone i would at least have made OH suffer at home with me lol!

*to not too!

NinkyNonky, we took our 3 month old to bonfire night last year, and our 2 1/2 year old. They both wore ear defenders - I had to keep making sure they were on the 3 month old as best as they could be, frequently. I held my 3 month DS so that he could look over my shoulder at the big bonfire, and he just sat there staring at it, mesmerised. The 2 1/2 year old held onto his ear defenders for dear life, and stared at the fire works with great glee! (He REALLY dislikes loud noises).

YANBU - how precisely will it induce labour? If it did surely when women go overdue the NHS would save money on drugs and just pop a balloon behind their back?

FWIW - we did fireworks on our garden for friends when I was 34/5ish wks pg with DS1. I went 10 days overdue.
Methinks he's being a little overcautious

I am due on Saturday and am planning on going to a display hoping that it will bring on labour!

Tell your OH he is a fule! You may experience some belly jumping when the big rockets go up

BTW my mum reckoned a firework launched my DB but she was 37 weeks at the time. And it was a squib chucked into a crowded pub

lordy me, what planet is he on, does he/she simply not like fireworks .

I was working on a firework display when I was 20ish weeks pg and present at another at 30ish weeks. Both occasions caused less discomfort in terms of pogoing foetus than a Green day CD in the car. DS came along eventully at 42 weeks.

Tell your DH that if fireworks sent women into labour the midwives wouldn't bother faffing around with pessaries, drips and ARM - they'd just set bangers off on the labour ward!

Oh fgs! It's lovely he's so concerned but really! I was 36 weeks with ds and went to the mahoosive display on Blackheath. Ds didn't mind at all.

He's being stupid. Ask him what did he think pregnant women did during the war when bombs were being dropped on their homes.

bless. Tell him not to worry it wont make any difference. I remember going to a bonfire party at just under 40 weeks in the vain hope that is would induce labour, but alas, a week later I was still waiting.

How sweet of him to be concerned..... but stupid! Buy him a copy of "The Vistor Within: The Science of Pregnancy" then he can read up on why loud fireworks can't possibly induce labour.

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I went to fireworks two weeks before due date - only concession was to take folding chair so couldl be lazy arse and sit down till the fireworks started. was 4 days overdue in the end so they didn't stir dd in the slightest

Then went to the display with her in a sling the following year. She slept throughout the display

Don't think you have anything to worry about

ive just spoken to my friend who is having the party and she said her own hubby is being a bit of a stinge and being very modest with his firework buying - looks like i'll be ok, can hardly see baby popping out at the whizzing of a catherine wheel lol!
really hope it's not a dire show now ive got so excited about it!

I'll be 35+6 on Friday and I shall be taking DS to see some fireworks.

Admittedly, if I do go into early labour it'll be mighty inconvenient since DH will be on an airplane to the US at the time...

People gave birth to completely normal babies--after they'd been through the Blitz.

I went to one on fireworks night in friends back garden when i was 5 days overdue - it did not bring me any sooner on so ds was 10 days over due as a result. I am a bit of a twitchy firework watcher as a rule.