To want to take a bottle of water on the nursery trip?

[Kyrptonite]

Bit of a random one! I'm 28 weeks pregnant, work in a nursery and we are going on a trip Wednesday on a coach. It's only an hour/hour and a half away but this pregnancy has been making me feel sick even on short car journeys so I am dreading the coach trip.

I asked today if I can take a bottle of water to drink on the coach if needed. Apparently I'm not because then the kids might want a drink too. I understand this but I'm hormonal, stroppy and really don't want to be sick on the bloody coach!

I also have SPD so the idea of wandering around a sodding aquarium all day with no chance to sit down may be adding to my stroppiness about this!

Am I being unreasonable and do I need to suck it up and accept its not a huge journey and if I'm sick I will just have to deal with it?

I wouldn't want to try and take nursery aged DCs to the toilet on a moving coach. Also I am not sure where you would be if you had an accident and the parent thought they would be strapped in for the journey.

curlew i can go without eating, but if i dont drink enough water then i start getting headaches that leads to me feeling sick and dizzy. I also get a dry mouth that then leads to a sore throat.

Does that mean that, if you're not pregnant and suffering from travel sickness, you can't go an hour without a drink?

Why did you ask???

That's just barking - you are an adult and one that is about to become (if you aren't already) a Mum and you asked if you could take water with you?

" After all, those of us who drink lots of water aren't expressing incredulity at people who can go hours with nothing, however bizarre we find that habit ourselves. It surely isn't news to anyone that some people have different thirst responses to others, is it? "

An hour. Not hours.

This is getting silly.

Nobody is suggesting that anyone should be forced to go hours without a drink. Nobody should go hours without a drink! I am saying that a normal healthy person who has had a drink for breakfast, another drink shortly before getting in the bus should not have a problem with going for an hour before their next drink. The recent obsession with constant drinking is a) scientifically unnecsssary and b) a triumph of the marketing industry. Almost as great a triumph as their success in convincing many of us that tap water isn't good enough and we need to buy expensive, environmentally damaging bottled water.when we have a water supply that three quarters of the world would give their right arms for,

How did you get on today, op?

I took my water. No one said anything. Kids had water before we left and as soon as we got back.

Trip was hell. It was hot, so busy and I felt claustrophobic which I've never done before. I ache like I've never ached before and I have to be in work at 8 tomorrow morning. On the plus side however we didn't misplace any children and I managed not to pass out which I thought was going to happen!

And on the plus side it is over!